distressfully
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The Senate Ladies' Luncheon Club was distressfully snarled on the election of a president to succeed Mrs. Dawes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus after six distressfully disputatious days at Scranton.
From Time Magazine Archive
One can but so distressfully wait and so wonderingly watch.
From The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II by Henry James
We became distressfully anxious about the safety of the absent men.
From Memorials of the Sea My Father: Being Records of the Adventurous Life of the Late William Scoresby, Esq. of Whitby by William Scoresby
My little boy," I say, distressfully, "I must work every day.
From My Little Boy by Carl Ewald
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