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Soundly

adverb

Deeply or completely. "The baby is sleeping soundly"

Completely and absolutely ('good' is sometimes used informally for 'thoroughly'). Synonyms: good, thoroughly. "We beat him good"

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"Soundly" Quotes from Famous Books

... the attempt and retired to the great bed in the inner chamber, wondering much who had occupied it last. A herdsman, she judged, as Soa had suggested, for in a corner of the room stood an ox-goad hugely fashioned. But it was a bed, and she slept as soundly in it as its numerous insect occupants would allow. The others were not so fortunate: they had the insects indeed, ...

— The People Of The Mist • H. Rider Haggard

... servants alike now knew that Cicely had run away and that her father was prepared, as the phrase went, to raise Cain about it, the Squire went up to bed, and breaking his usual healthy custom of going to sleep immediately he laid his head on his pillow, rated Mrs. Clinton soundly for not noticing what was going on under her very nose. "I can't look after everything in the house and out of it too," he ended up. "I shall be expected to see that the twins change their stockings when they get their feet wet, next. ...

— The Squire's Daughter - Being the First Book in the Chronicles of the Clintons • Archibald Marshall

... you sleep soundly, old fellow!' he said. 'How about that!' and he shook him heartily by the shoulder. The instant he let go the figure collapsed. In order to get a closer view Hartnoll then struck a light with ...

— Animal Ghosts - Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter • Elliott O'Donnell

... four tents large enough to accommodate all the people. Oglethorpe, after posting his sentinels, slept on the ground under the shelter of the tall pines, near the central watch fire. As a soldier should, he slept soundly. He had planted the new Colony, and thus far all had gone well with him and with those whose interests he had ...

— Stories Of Georgia - 1896 • Joel Chandler Harris

... began. I observed he was strangely embarrassed. He strangled over his pipe and began anew: "I said that to play the game soundly you've only to know when to bluff. Studied it out myself, and jolly well right I was, too, as far as I went. But there's further to go in the silly game. I hadn't observed that to play it greatly one must also know when one's opponent ...

— Ruggles of Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson

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