Despairingly

Word DESPAIRINGLY
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As he came spluttering to the surface again, "Help, help, Arvid," he called despairingly; "I am drowning!" ❋ Elbridge Streeter Brooks (1874)

Some called despairingly the names of wives and daughters who had been among the spectators in that fatal line of wagons. ❋ Unknown (1867)

Frankenstein despairingly bewails his attempt as impious, and suffers for it; partial justice is rendered; and many more incidents in the novel might have been pourtrayed, of harrowing interest! though without infringing good taste. ❋ Unknown (1823)

At the first intimation of the man's violence Jean had rushed to her sister's aid and was beating him with wildly impotent hands, calling despairingly to Lollie, to Swimming Wolf, even to Gregg. ❋ Barrett Willoughby (N/A)

We also saw a bewildered curly white dog and a young girl, who called despairingly to him as he disappeared beneath the automobile. ❋ Owen Wister (1899)

All the while Alfred was calling despairingly to us; every time the ice broke, he would nearly disappear under the water, which was deadly cold. ❋ Unknown (1887)

The vicomte called despairingly for help, but none came. ❋ Jules Lermina (1877)

He called despairingly upon his friends and laid hands on those near him; but all were silent, cold and stony. ❋ Various (1868)

Poor, distracted Montgomery threw himself on the ground beside her, calling despairingly upon her, imploring her to speak one more word to him, but all in vain; and when the troops from the fort, who had taken the alarm, arrived at the dreadful spot, he lay like one dead, with his arm around the lifeless form of his precious Lizzie. ❋ Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark Van Cleve (1863)

Lost, for an instant, even the recollection that Goisvintha might still be watching her opportunity from without, calling despairingly on her father, and vainly striving to raise him from the ground, Antonina remembered not, in the overwhelming trial of the moment, the revelations of Numerian's past life that had been disclosed to her in the days when the famine was at its worst in Rome. ❋ Wilkie Collins (1856)

And so he wildly walked and raved, until his garments were drenched through with the rain; until the storm exhausted its fury and subsided; until the changing atmosphere, the still, severe cold, froze all his clothing stiff around him; so he walked, groaning and crying and calling despairingly upon the name of Marian, until the night waned and the morning dawned, and the eastern horizon grew golden, then crimson, then fiery with the coming sun. ❋ Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth (1859)

We aren't supposed to notice how it jars with that famously light-handed approach to violence; nor, I suppose, are we to notice that "despair in her voice" is hardly less of an adverb than "despairingly" would have been. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Someone, she said despairingly, needs to make children sit down, work hard and learn to concentrate. ❋ Unknown (2009)

On one side is a city for which the American dream seems despairingly out of reach. ❋ Arianna Huffington (2011)

He admitted to me that he was scarcely taking his medication, and I wrote despairingly to his social worker and the consultant in Brighton, asking if they could give him the olanzapine through fortnightly injections, as I knew could be done; otherwise, I feared a relapse was inevitable. ❋ Patrick Cockburn (2011)

Would he dog her always? she asked despairingly, and seemed to glimpse a vision of all her future life stretched out before her, with always the form and face of the burly blacksmith pursuing her. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"Lit-lit -- well, she is Lit-lit," was the fashion in which he despairingly described her to his chief clerk, Alexander McLean. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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