1535. Stewart, Cron. Scot., II. 28. Lord Eolus richt fanelie did thame gyde.
1626. W. Sclater, An Exposition with notes vpon the first Epistle to the Thessalonians (1629), 221. Grace … Easily, Willingly, fainely beteemes another, any other, all others share with it in the common Saluation.
a. 1800[?]. Jolly Goshawk, ix. in Child, Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ball., IV. 360.
| She ’s gone unto her west window, | |
| And fainly aye it drew. |
1850. Blackle, Æschylus, II. 268, The Persians. Xerxes, stript of all his glory, with a straggling few they say— … Fainly comes, with life scarce rescued, to the bridge that links the lands.
