Stragglingly

She mutters something about her great fear of lightning and thunder; signs her name even more stragglingly than usual, and is at last led by ❋ Anne Beale (N/A)

Finally, about noon, they kicked their two prisoners into the river, and took their way stragglingly back along the right-of-way. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)

Primitive conditions everywhere prevailed, and communities brooded in silence, growing stragglingly in sluggish indifference, content with coarse food and coarser living. ❋ Bolton Hall (1896)

As steel filings respond to a magnet, they came, and as inevitably; stragglingly, suspiciously by day, in flocks that grew to be a perfect cloud by night. ❋ Unknown (1893)

Upon these at last broke falteringly, stragglingly, a familiar voice, the voice of Abel Reverdy, kindly and uncouth as himself, and expressive, like his presence, of an impartial interest in the feelings of both the faithful and the unfaithful. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

He added, to the company generally, "Do you know what I think are the two lines of mine that go as deep as any others, in a certain direction?" and he began to repeat stragglingly certain verses from one of his earlier poems, until he came to the closing couplet. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

The water in the river is low, and spreads stragglingly over a wide surface. ❋ Schoolcraft, H R (1851)

I repressed, I got thro 'them as hardly, as stragglingly there, ❋ Robert Browning (1850)

And yet recessive strains of the inner-directed type stragglingly, stubbornly, residually, partially, feebly persist on these shores; partly on account of sheer material inertia-the classic texts of the inner-directed era remain accessible to our other-directed fingers ❋ Unknown (2009)