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4 total sentences available.
One who had caught a glimpse of the shining yet solemn eyes of the youth, as he walked home, would wonder no longer that he should talk as he did—so sedately, yet so poetically—so long-windedly, if you like, yet so sensibly—even wisely.
Source: wiktionary
I found out from his mate that he was a Longfellow fan, and the fireman complained bitterly that, not being poetically inclined himself, he often wished that Alfred would put a sock in it."
Source: wiktionary
The bungled phrase, the slipshod paragraph, the inept metaphor, the irrelevant excursion, the disproportionate development, the feeble conclusion, are indeed all failures of meaning, and the more poetically ambitious the verbal structure in which they occur, the deeper and more substantive the failure may be.
Source: wiktionary
I want to cry for a life unlived, floating beautifully, poetically, all these years just out of reach.
Source: wiktionary
Closest matches include artfully, imaginatively, lyrically, metaphorically, more artistic.
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