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
"What a country! what an awful country!" exclaimed May, distressfully.
From A Claim on Klondyke A Romance of the Arctic El Dorado by Roper, Edward
One can but so distressfully wait and so wonderingly watch.
From The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II by James, Henry
"Don't cry; don't cry, dear!" he said distressfully.
From Poppy The Story of a South African Girl by Stockley, Cynthia
