You! 'cried she, again distressfully, almost incredulously, looking at him, while her hands were uplifted with amazement:' I thought you above any suffering! superior to all calamity! ... almost to all feeling! .. ' ❋ Unknown (1796)
He even believes that he heard the voice of his fellow experimenter calling distressfully to him, though at the time he considered this to be an illusion. ❋ Herbert George (2006)
There was a brief, heavy silence that weighed distressfully on Elis, while Hugh eyed the pair of them from under knitted brows, and fastened at last with frowning attention upon Melicent. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Great Regulars: And while such an one is ploughing distressfully up the road, it is not hard to understand his resentment, when he perceives cool persons in the meadows by the wayside, lying with a handkerchief over their ears and a glass at their elbow. ❋ Rus Bowden (2009)
You! 'cried she, again distressfully, almost incredulously, looking at him, while her hands were uplifted with amazement:' I thought you above any suffering! superior to all calamity!. ❋ Unknown (2008)
She went, laughing, out of the chamber, and Camilla, who had seized a pen, distressfully flung it from her. ❋ Unknown (2008)
He had coaxed the terrified animal up from its knees, and now it stood, lathered and panting distressfully, head lowered, eyes still rolling. ❋ Jane Feather (2007)
Mr. George, who has turned quite white and looks distressfully at the grey cloak and straw bonnet. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Most distressfully (but, my dear, how successfully!) to wail he did, his locks of a lucan tinge, quickrich, ripely rippling, unfilleted, those lashbetasselled lids on the verge of closing time, whiles ouze of his sidewiseopen mouth the breath of him, evenso languishing as the princeliest treble treacle or lichee chewchow purse could buy. ❋ Unknown (2006)
And while such an one is ploughing distressfully up the road, it is not hard to understand his resentment, when he perceives cool persons in the meadows by the wayside, lying with a handkerchief over their ears and a glass at their elbow. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Hat in hand, the old man lifted his head, and looked distressfully at ❋ Unknown (2004)
“You must excuse me, indeed you must excuse me,” cried Fanny, growing more and more red from excessive agitation, and looking distressfully at ❋ Unknown (2004)
With weakness and with want of food, she lost herself distressfully, and went away for miles or more, and lay upon a peat-rick, to die before the ravens. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
“No, they were not in mine!” she roundly and distressfully returned. ❋ Unknown (2003)
He was a bright, free, generous spirit, he had all the illumination of wisdom and none of its pedantry, and yet he was distressfully dying. ❋ Unknown (2003)
At the last moment Courcelle, frowning down distressfully at the corpse, said abruptly: 'Wait! ❋ Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 (1979)
"He set out this morning with your father," said Huw, distressfully eyeing the girl's fixed and defiant face. ❋ Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 (1977)
Marius distressfully pulled his lip and Margaret said anxiously, ❋ Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 (1973)
It was the day of dedication for those disgusting oilskins, immured in whose stiff and odorous angles, I felt distressfully cumbersome; a day of proof indeed for me, for heavy squalls swept incessantly over the loch, and Davies, at my own request, gave me no rest. ❋ Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 (1955)
