alway


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alway

(ˈɔːlweɪ)
adv
an archaic word for always
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Her beams bemocked the sultry main, Like April hoar-frost spread; But where the ship's huge shadow lay, The charmed water burnt alway A still and awful red.
"'Your bed is on the flinty rock, Your sleep to watch alway;'
I was surprised to hea the Gauchos, who have from infancy almost lived on horseback, say that, under similar circumstances, they alway suffer.
The examination of these compound animals was alway very interesting to me.
I am glad a task to me is given, To labor at day by day, For it brings me health and strength and hope, And I cheerfully learn to say, "Head, you may think, Heart, you may feel, But, Hand, you shall work alway!"
She does not scold at all, and always calls me Miss Margaret, which is quite proper, you know, and treats me with respect.
"And I say it as knowing God is my judge, and we tarry not here alway, but must answer at the last day for the things said in the body, be they false or be they sooth."
In work alway Let my first years be past, That I may give for ev'ry day Some good account at last."'
Thou wottest old bones must alway make room for young blood." Sir Stephen neither answered nor looked up, but passed out from the church as though he had heard nought, his men following him.
Heir to these tumults, this affright, that fraye(By Adam's, fathers', own, sin bound alway); Peer up, draw out thy horoscope and say Which planet mends thy threadbare fate or mars?
No mercy now can clear her brow From this world's peace to pray For as love's wild prayer dissolved in air, Her woman's heart gave way!-- But the sin forgiven by Christ in Heaven By man is cursed alway!
"I meant that there are always more ladies than lords when you come to peel them."