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1660 H. More Explan. Grand Myst. Godliness vii. x. 321 The Life and Death of Christ was writ in a serious manner by some or other; not Romantically but Historically, as Plutarch, Tacitus and Suetonius are conceived to have writ the Lives of Illustrious Persons and Emperours.

1687 Bp. G. Burnet Contin. Refl. Mr. Varillas's Hist. Heresies 98 After he had turned this as Romantically as he could, he makes her to dye.

1730 H. Fielding Temple Beau i. vi. 15 Two young Ladies, one of whom is as Romantically in love as your self.

1778 J. Thistlewaite Man of Experience II. xi. 111 In this house..resides at present a lady, fair, young, and amiable, and, withal, romantically virtuous.

1813 Examiner 11 Jan. 17/2 Romantically preferring his good conscience..to..a pension.

1856 P. E. Dove Logic Christian Faith vi. §4 Those who reject Revelation are the most romantically credulous on all other matters.

1865 E. C. Clayton Cruel Fortune I. 149 I should never have suspected you of being so romantically absurd.

1914 S. Lewis Our Mr. Wrenn vi. 69 He passed the remains of a refectory of monastic days..where knights had tied their romantically pawing chargers.

1935 T. Wolfe Of Time & River iv. li. 466 His feelings were powerfully and romantically involved in thoughts about several of these warm and luscious-looking Jewish wenches.

1961 Listener 7 Sept. 346/1 The Africa of the ‘long grass’..into which, half a century ago, one would have romantically disappeared.

1991 N.Y. Times 10 Dec. c1/4 The group of insects known romantically as scarabs and more descriptively as dung beetles.

2008 K. Morton Forgotten Garden xxix. 242 ‘Such a beauty was our Rose, and such a tragic life!..’ She sighed romantically.

1741 J. Ralph in Champion I. 342 Nor is the Scene itself more romantically beautiful than he has painted it.

1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 517 A small cascade, where the water falls 15 or 20 feet, very romantically between two rocks.

1816 J. Scott Paris Revisited ix. 270 The situation altogether is as romantically lovely as can be imagined.

1884 A. R. Pennington Wiclif iv. 132 A place romantically situated on the bank of the Severn.

1918 J. M. Barrie What Every Woman Knows iv. 134 There is a romantically damp little arbour at the end of what the villagers call the Lovers' Lane.

1992 Times (Nexis) 12 Sept. There are more spectacular views among the romantically wooded crags of Borrowdale heading up to the stark Honister Pass.

1865 Preston Guardian 25 Feb. 3/1 The new name..fell on the ear of an enthusiastic and romantically-minded individual.

1965 M. House & G. Storey Lett. C. Dickens I. p. xxi The kind suggested here by the romantically-minded Kate.

2004 Gold Coast (Austral.) Bull. (Nexis) 31 Aug. t14 Some romantically minded pet lover might like to take the example of a European agency where owners of love-sick cats and dogs can meet to find a furry mate.