Yet no beggar in rags ever appeared to me half so loathly as did this speckless dandy!
I am the breathing impersonation of that loathly thing, I believe.
A rat, he thought, and drew himself to a sitting attitude, and beat his slippered heels upon the ground to drive away the loathly creature.
This castle seems, too, to be the one in which lodge the Knights, each having his lady love with him, which the loathly maiden announces to be her home.
He meets Rosette (the loathly damsel) and Le Biaus Mauvais, laughs at the former, is challenged by the latter, whom he overcomes and sends to Arthur.
But we have seen that the Celtic folk-tales represent the loathly damsel as the real protagonist of the story.
In the description of Rosette (the loathly damsel)-- Ele avoit le col et les mains plus Le col avoit plus noir que fer noires et le vier, que fer.
We abstain from lifting the curtain behind which the serpent lies coiled in our hearts, because we dread to see its loathly length, and to rouse it to lift its malignant head, and to strike with its forked tongue.
Then were there gathered together multitudes that held his loathly religion; but of the Christians was there found one only that came to the help of the supposed Barlaam.
While he was still gazing on the loathly image, Regin, the cunning smith, came into the smithy.
It clung to me with a loathly persistency that nearly drove me frantic, and wild with disgust and terror I screamed aloud!
None could give the reason why, but only a few weeks after the death of his dear Queen, the King brought this loathlybride to Court, and married her with great pomp and festivities.
With that she kissed the loathly demon full on the lips, and left him.
Little knows she that in the history of my mighty and knightly deeds, she is condemned to go down to posterity yet unborn under the name of the Loathly Beelzebubba!
Celie Tennant shrank instinctively when the man protruded his head past her in this curious manner, as she might have shrunk from some loathly animal.
In the centre a new fountain with two dragons supplied the Ghetto with water from the Aqueduct of Paul the Fifth in lieu of the loathly Tiber water, and bore a grateful Latin inscription.
The people fear me; for they do observe Unfather'd heirs and loathly births of nature.
No living thing would that loathly one leave as aloft it flew.
III THUS seethed unceasing the son of Healfdene with the woe of these days; not wisest men assuaged his sorrow; too sore the anguish, loathly and long, that lay on his folk, most baneful of burdens and bales of the night.
There may it hang," cried that loathly knave, "And grin till its teeth be dry; While every day with jeer and taunt Will I mock it till I die!
If he should, Grisell felt a resolute purpose within her that though she could not be transformed, he should not see her loathly in his sight, and in that hope she slept.
Some eyes were discourteously turned on the maiden, but she hardly saw them, and at any rate her nose was not crooked, nor had her eyes and mouth changed places, as in the case of the "Loathly Lady.
Then after the marriage, when he looked on the lady, instead of the loathly hag he beheld a fair damsel!
Sister Avice had told her how to be not loathly in the sight of those whom she could teach to love her.
All will hate and flee from me, as from a basilisk or cockatrice, or the Loathly Worm of Spindlesheugh," sobbed Grisell.
That he would as soon wed the loathly lady as thee," the cruel Somerset villain as he is; and yet my brother Edmund is fain to love him.
What office was too loathly for thee, what tendence too tiring?
Damsel," saith Messire Gawain, "Right loathly is this forest and right hideous.
To wait trembling, lest yonloathly Gallows-shape whereon I die, In strange temples yet unbuilded, Blaze upon an altar high.
The Mother read the letter from the loathlybeginning to the infamous end.
If she had been innocent of actual treachery, here was the smooth, brotherly betrayer, unmasked and loathly in the sight of the betrayed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "loathly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
