See mellowy on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 10 p. 159:",
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"ref": "1856 February 23, “Poetical Nuisances”, in The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, page 328:",
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"ref": "1887, R. M. Tate ·, Michael Malcolm, Or, Annals of a Sea-port Town, page 186:",
"text": "A little distance off was a grey and mossy cottage, the sight of which made Michael's heart leap, and called to his memory many reflections, pleasing, but mellowy sad.",
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"ref": "1968 August 5, “Philippine Trade Standared Specifications for Fish Sauce”, in Official Gazette, volume 64, number 32, page 8108:",
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"ref": "1829, T.C.O., “To S****”, in Ladies' Magazine and Literary Gazette, volume 2, page 35:",
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"text": "I have investigated with great care the alterations of the soft, free, mellowy character of the normal respiratory murmurs, in all the cases of auscultation I have met for some years, and I have learned to give to this class of signs more weight than is usually assigned to them.",
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"ref": "1928, Country Life - Volume 55, page 127:",
"text": "Get the fun of \"playing\" outdoors in the mellowy energising winter sunshine.",
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"ref": "1769, John Ogilvie, Providence. Solitude. Paradise. An aeolian ode, page 29:",
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"ref": "1839, Margaret Richardson, The Buds of Hope: A Collection of Miscellaneous Poems, page 48:",
"text": "Autumn's rich mellowy fruit bedecks the trees, Laid low, beneath a winter's stormy skies.",
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"text": "Not that he got all soft and mellowy around them, but he'd never met one he didn't like.",
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