shapelily

adv

1. In a shapely manner.

   “Ulysses meets in the mansion of Hades, not Hercules, who has been promoted to Olympus, and to “Hebe shapelily ankled,” but a phantom exactly resembling him.”

   “Yet its meaning was such as might have accounted for a little irregularity and quite justified whatever emotional emphasis the appropriately placed ob! ah! and helas! always so neatly written, and with the interjectional point so shapelily marked, might be taken to convey.”

   “The stump-rooted carrots carrots must be grown, and an intermediate (half-long) parsnip; but a long beetroot will grow shapelily, the roots of this vegetable growing upwards as well as downwards.”

   “The beet of medium length (an intermediate variety) will grow shapelily in shallowly-dug or stony ground.”