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
"I must go home," she murmured to herself distressfully, as she slipped unobserved through the crowded rooms.
From The Torch Bearer by Marquis, Reina Melcher
They go off dizzily, he stares distressfully after them and 203 at last cries to them to meet him for a last time the same evening in the grove behind Diana’s temple.
From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Colvin, Sidney
Gen. Wise, who has been here a few days on sick furlough, has returned to his command, still coughing distressfully, and distressed at the prospect.
From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by Jones, John Beauchamp
