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The Scarlet Pimpernel vocabulary
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apace
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{adv}
synonyms: trippingly, volant ???
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Definition:quickly
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Uses:
M. Mery.: Come on sirs apace, and quite your selues like men,
Your pains shalbe rewarded.
D. Dou. But I wot not when.
M. Mery. Do your maister worship as ye haue done in time past.
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It was the last of the regiment's stay in Meryton, and all the young ladies in the neighbourhood were drooping apace.
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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Michael Portillo: [Chicago] shrugged off a major conflagration and architecturally reached for the sky; its expansion upwards and outwards continues apace.
BBC. Great American Railroad Journeys: Milwaukee to Chicago (2017)
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