softwise

Updated: May 3, 2025

And in a minute she added, softwise, "Ay, were that all!" "Ah," said Mary, "but I'll take the next one that asks me, if it's only to save myself the taunts at home! You thought you were winning to a soft nest, children, where there were nought but larks and thrushes and maybe nightingales, and we're all cuckoos.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 63, January, 1863