It can readily be seen that the government was illy prepared to cope with an outbreak of such magnitude as this soon proved to be.

The 7th Corps, commanded by General Douay, only possessed two divisionsDumont's division and Gilbert's divisionand formed the other battle front, covering the army of Givonne to Floing on the side of Illy; this battle front was comparatively weak, too open on the side of Givonne, and only protected on the side of the Meuse by the two cavalry divisions of Margueritte and Bonnemains, and by Guyomar's brigade, resting in squares upon Floing.

At the same time Ducrot was compelled to concentrate his forces in the Garenne Wood, before the Calvary of Illy; Douay, shattered, fell back; Lebrun alone stood firm on the plateau of Stenay.

From these two heights, the most elevated of this circle of hills, Daigny, opposite Givonne, which is 266 mètres high, Fleigneux, opposite Illy, 296 mètres high, the batteries of the Prussian Royal Guard had crushed the French Army.

Mrs. Anderson was an illy educated, self willed, narrow minded [woman], full of airs and pretensions, the only daughter of a man who had laid the foundation of his wealth by keeping a low groggery, and dying had left her his only heir.

The first had gone to its training table at "Mother" Burke's, in the village, and the second ate its meals in the center of the school dining hall with an illy concealed sense of self-importance.

I carried such a report to my wife that we were determined to seek her acquaintance, and were not less surprised than recompensed to find such gentleness, urbanity, affection, and intelligence, under circumstances so illy calculated, as might be supposed, to produce such amiable virtues.

They are crowded together in a small hut, sometimes having an imperfect, and sometimes no floorand seldom raised from the ground, illy ventilated, and surrounded with filth.

They are crowded together in a small hut, sometimes having an imperfect, and sometimes no floorand seldom raised from the ground, illy ventilated, and surrounded with filth.

The windows were broken and but illy repaired by the curtaining cobwebs.

Reduced to skin and bone by the long and toilsome journey across the plains, they were illy prepared to stand the rigors of such a winter.

A company of U. S. dragoons under command of Capt. A. J. Smith, who subsequently achieved fame in the war of the States, was stationed in Southern Oregon, and rendered all possible aid, but the slow tactics of the regulars was illy calculated to cope with the savages.

Instead to his ears, growing louder moment by moment, penetrating the illy constructed walls, came an indistinct roar; rising, lowering, yet ever constant: a sound unlike any other on earth, distinctive as the silence preceding had been typicalthe clamour of angry, menacing human voices en masse.

"Aw-dinner-illy," she said, a flag-of-truce craft might be any old tub and would go the short way, from behind the city and across the lakes, not all round by the river and the Chandeleur Islands.

His five feet four of stature quivered with illy-subdued emotion, but whether it was rage or the sudden recollection of the dog-trot through the woods, it is beyond me to suggest.

I answered not his railing with railing, for sufferance is the badge of all our tribe, but such slander is illy bestowed on one who has been your friend for long, and who was but striving to avert his own destruction.

What, then, is the real nature of the reason so little studied and so illy known by those very men who raise altars in its honor?

The figure of noble bearing on the top of the shaft is the idealization of subsequent events, and probably but illy corresponds with the actual appearance of the impecunious reality.

Everywheres, illy, lesser, light-complected, muchly, nowhere near, unbeknown are not in reputable use.

He was ill (illy) equipped for the journey.

That will ill (illy) accord with my notions.

Illy, 110. Immigration, emigration, distinguished, 30.

Soon heavy, gray clouds followed in its wake, and quickly overcast the sky, and by two o'clock in the afternoon the rapidly growing fury of the wind commenced to drive sharp pointed particles of snow before it, which, as the storm increased to cyclonic proportions, changed to masses of rotating darts, which cut into the exposed portions of our illy-clad bodies and made breathing a serious problem.

A doubly adverbial form, like "illy.

There is no such word as illy, for ill itself is an adverb.