Thesaurus / painfully
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After a minute's pause, while he stood painfully silent, she resumed in great emotion.
THE PASTOR'S FIRE-SIDE VOL. 3 OF 4JANE PORTERThe new galleries had been finished four whole years, but they still looked painfully fresh.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSIt was painfully evident to the most casual observer, that she had died of absolute starvation.
THE WORLD BEFORE THEMSUSANNA MOODIEThe application to the immediate circumstances of those brave gentlemen was painfully direct.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXXIX. JANUARY, 1844. VOL. LV.VARIOUSThe tone was so painfully earnest, that a momentary suspicion crossed her of his having some other motive.
ELSTER'S FOLLYMRS. HENRY WOODAs he took Richard's arm he gave the long heavy sigh that always fell so painfully on Ethel's ear.
THE DAISY CHAINCHARLOTTE YONGECoach after coach crawled slowly and painfully up the steep hill, some coming from London, others bound thither.
THE PORTSMOUTH ROAD AND ITS TRIBUTARIESCHARLES G. HARPERBut her heart was beating more painfully just now than it had done any time during the evening.
THE WEIGHT OF THE CROWNFRED M. WHITEThe stranger smiled weakly and placed a pair of painfully thin hands on the desk as though to steady himself.
HOODED DETECTIVE, VOLUME III NO. 2, JANUARY, 1942VARIOUSThe former at least has been accentuated since yesterday, when your likeness to Hi struck me very painfully.
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