Example Sentences

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Quizzically: “Did you think I was an heiress!”

From The Man from the Bitter Roots by Lockhart, Caroline

Quizzically for an instant, as if to accumulate further courage, she cocked her little head on one side and stared blankly into Barton's astonished eyes.

From Little Eve Edgarton by Crosby, Raymond Moreau

Quizzically for an instant she stared off into space, then quite abruptly she gave a quick, funny little sniff.

From Little Eve Edgarton by Crosby, Raymond Moreau

Quizzically, the old man gazed after her; the first hundred feet were easy, a mossed slope with padded foot-hold.

From The Freebooters of the Wilderness by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)