distressfully

They set about it in silence, which, in the case of Spaniards, was a significant thing; but nobody had any breath to spare, and Austin gasped distressfully as he toiled, almost naked, in their midst.

Just as the question came to Rose, Jamie's voice was heard in the hall crying distressfully, "Oh, come quick, quick!"

Oh, Lord John," she called distressfully, "isn't it dreadful?

But the thought of George, of how this must hit him, haunted her distressfully.

One can but so distressfully wait and so wonderingly watch.