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1482 W. Maryon Let. 2 Apr. in Cely Lett. (1975) 136 God sent you now lokeley to Calles.

1529 J. Frith Pistle Christen Reader f. lxxxiv^v Now after that all these thinges did prosper luckely with him.

1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus sig. Liv^v Surely I have borne .i. set my fote hyther as I here .i. as farre as I can here, byrde lokyngly [L. auspicato] .i. luckyly or in a good houre.

1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Matt. xiii. 1–9 Other sum fel vpon a good and a frutful grounde, and springing vp luckeli, brought furth fruit.

a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) i. v. sig. C.ij^v My dere spouse..whom..God luckily sende home to both our heartes ease.

1585 J. B. tr. P. Viret School of Beastes: Good Housholder sig. B The esterne winde. Which brought you hither luckely.

1610 A. P. tr. F. Herring Popish Pietie xii. sig. A7 Go to faire England, luckily reduce That rebel kingdome to our Scepters vse.

1668 J. Dryden Of Dramatick Poesie 47 All the Images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily.

1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 38 He..carried himself so luckily in Parliament, that he did his Master much Service.

1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. iii. 141 Several fine runs of..fresh water,..some of them so luckily situated, that the casks may be filled..with an hose.

1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. iii. 24 ‘This,’ cried he, ‘happens still more luckily than I hoped for.’

1808 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) II. 173 That good lady who, as you remember, physiognomised me so luckily for ‘a man of sorrow and acquainted with woe’.

1855 R. Carboni Eureka Stockade 103 The Ballaarat diggers..considered themselves luckily cunning to have got off safe.

a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) II. iv. 78 All this applied only to the few so strangely and so luckily chosen, while the mass was rejected.

2012 Washington Post (Nexis) 20 May b7 Marseille, a luckily situated seaside metropolis with mythical and historical traditions, survived France's violent autumn of 2005 relatively unscathed.

1590 H. Roberts Defiance to Fortune sig. D^v He waiteth opportunitie to disclose his loue vnto her: which luckily was presently offered.

1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. ii. vii. 181 A showre, which powring suddenly downe did, most luckily for vs, wet, and weaken the strings of the Persian bowes.

1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 1 Apr. (1965) I. 338 Luckily for me I was so well deceiv'd that I knew nothing of the matter.

1749 T. Smollett tr. A. R. Le Sage Gil Blas I. iii. vii. 232 Luckily my wounds were not mortal, and I fell into the hands of a skilful artist.

1765 Ld. Kames Elements Crit. (ed. 3) I. viii. 274 Luckily..our speculations are supported by facts.

1814 Ld. Byron Jrnl. 6 Mar. (1974) III. 247 Merivale is luckily a very good-natured fellow, or, God he knows what might have been engendered from such a malaprop.

1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe x. 236 Climbing a long snow-slope which was luckily in fair order.

1923 G. Collins Valley of Eyes Unseen xiv. 305 Luckily, I had just strength enough to reach up and touch the power-lever.

1958 ‘J. Castle’ & A. Hailey Flight into Danger viii. 113 The first officer, then the captain were taken sick. Luckily there was a passenger on board who had piloted before and he took over the controls.

2008 Herald-Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 9 Sept. (Business Network Suppl.) 9/5 Luckily for the subcontractors, the houses went up..quickly.