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a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iv. l. 2297 For evere yit it hath be so, That love honeste in sondri weie Profiteth, for it doth aweie The vice.

1474 in R. R. Sharpe Cal. Let.-bks. London (1912) L. 121 Many persones daily bene deceived of thassise of beddes, as in Celers, Curteins..Coverlettes of Englissh makyng, which been thynne drevyn and in sondry weyes deceivably made.

?1538 Inst. Lawes Eng. sig. C.vii Particion maye be made in sundrye wayes.

1592 T. Tymme Plaine Discouerie Ten Eng. Lepers E 4 b This leprosie of pride dooth sundrie waies lay holde upon men.

1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem Table 61 He quha being lawfullie summoned, is absent,..is sindrie wayes vnlawed according to the diversitie of the courts.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 101 To breed him, break him, back him, are requir'd Experienc'd Masters; and in sundry Ways: Their Labours equal, and alike their Praise. View more context for this quotation

1743 J. Bulkeley & J. Cummins Voy. to South-seas 36 There have died sundry ways since the Ship first struck forty-five Men.

1824 Times 19 Jan. 2/2 This grievance acts in sundry ways.

1920 O. Wister Straight Deal xv. 210 They tried it on in sundry ways, but ended by the discovery that, while engaged upon this enterprise, they had been in sundry ways quite completely ‘done’ themselves.

2015 Independent (Nexis) 28 June 4 His interpretation of Lady Bracknell, a character that has been read in sundry ways..is that ‘she's extraordinarily nouveau riche’.