distressfully
Example Sentences
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Thus after six distressfully disputatious days at Scranton.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Senate Ladies' Luncheon Club was distressfully snarled on the election of a president to succeed Mrs. Dawes.
From Time Magazine Archive
He described his adversary so well that the police at once identified and arrested him; but he appeared troubled with a distressfully bad memory in court to-day.
From The League of the Leopard by Harold Bindloss
"I must go home," she murmured to herself distressfully, as she slipped unobserved through the crowded rooms.
From The Torch Bearer by Reina Melcher Marquis
It was aching distressfully, and he felt dizzy as well as stiff, while he commenced to wonder whether his strength would hold out until he had seen Devine and finished his business in the city.
From A Damaged Reputation by Harold Bindloss
