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eftsoons
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synonyms: forthwith, in a brace of shakes, before you can say Jack Robinson, anon, by and by ???
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Definition:1. Again; anew; a second time;2. at once; speedily.
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he that feels his stomach inflamed with heat, cools it eftsoons with conserves
John Lyly. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578)
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Which hearing young Stephen was a marvellous glad man and he averred that he who stealeth from the poor lendeth to the Lord for he was of a wild manner when he was drunken and that he was now in that taking it appeared eftsoons.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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