disconsolately

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Disconsolately tugging at a damp patch of wallpaper in an upstairs bedroom, Lindley got the surprise of his life.

From Time Magazine Archive

Disconsolately, sometimes angrily, they wandered about the ruins.

From Time Magazine Archive

Disconsolately he moved around the interior of the shed, as if expecting to find concealed somewhere the airplane which he could not yet bring himself to believe had been stolen.

From The Radio Boys on the Mexican Border by Breckenridge, Gerald

Disconsolately I watched their departure, regretting the fact that I was unable to take a part in the coming struggle.

From A Lad of Grit A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea in Restoration Times by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)

Disconsolately I turned and rode back into the Legation lines, feeling as if an immense misfortune had come.

From Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation by Putnam Weale, B. L. (Bertram Lenox)