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1585 R. Lane Let. 12 Aug. in Trans. & Coll. Amer. Antiquarian Soc. (1860) 4 12 The servytude and tyranny that by Spayene..the same [sc. the Church] hathe of long time beene most myserabelly oppressed with.

1592 tr. F. Du Jon Apocalypsis ix. 4 He miserably set all christendome on fire, and conveyed over unto his successors the burning brand of the same.

1650 in J. Stuart Extracts Presbytery Bk. Strathbogie (1843) 121 The kirk yeard is miserablie abused by the minister his horse and cattell teddering..ther.

1657 A. Wood Life & Times (1891) I. 216 The effigies..miserably defaced when Oxon was besieged.

1741 C. Middleton Hist. Life Cicero II. x. 414 Bassus was miserably unwilling to deliver up his Legion.

1806 S. Grildrig Miniature (ed. 2) II. 10 Whereas many young fellows..have..attempted to sustain the character of a Rum Touch, and have..failed most miserably, notice is hereby given [etc.].

1850 N. Hawthorne Scarlet Let. xx. 263 Sad, indeed, that an introspection so profound and acute as this poor minister's should be so miserably deceived!

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 652/1 Two million sterling (50 million francs) were expended with a view to installing Parisian unemployed workmen as colonists, but this attempt failed miserably.

1992 Economist 7 Mar. 119/1 Most people have a gut feeling that American business is indeed miserably short-termist.