21 examples of distressfully in sentences

Why must you care at all what I think, or what my views are in this matter?" "Oh, I don't understand you at all," Lydia said distressfully.

And forthwith cries and moans arose from a dim corner of the vacant ground, while she herself began to wail and call distressfully.

The leaps of the fleeing deer become less vaulting, a look of terror in its liquid eyes has deepened; its tongue projects from its mouth, its wet flanks heave distressfully, but it flies on in desperation.

She sat looking at Peter seriously, almost distressfully, as he came toward her.

And while such an one is ploughing distressfully up the road, it is not hard to understand his resentment, when he perceives cool persons in the meadows by the wayside, lying with a handkerchief over their ears and a glass at their elbow.

"Perhaps an hour and a half passed, quietly, except when, once in a way, the dogs would whine distressfully.

She was vaguely conscious that the hotel clerk who had given her the telegram was hovering distressfully before her.

There were signs of trouble in them, too, as though she had thought long and distressfully, but greater than the marks of pain were the sweeter tokens of a love and trust unalterable.

She, too, though her eyes showed she had been weeping long, smiled with gladness; the next moment she exclaimed distressfully.

From out in the hall the lover sent back a last beseeching look, but no sound reached the hiding of the tense listener whose own heart's beating threatened to reveal her; no sound to say that now Anna had distressfully shaken her head, or that now her tears ran down, or that now in a mingled pain and rapture of confession she noddednodded!

Angels dropped down they seemed, tenderly begging off from all talk of the Callenders, who, Flora distressfully said, had been "grozzly exaggerated," while, nevertheless, she declared herself, with starting tears, utterly unable to explain why on earth they had gone to Mobile"unlezz the bazaar."

" "What does that matter," she replied distressfully, "if it is true?

Bill stared after him distressfully.

The lupines were shaking their blue heads distressfully at the impertinence; and then here came the vaqueros galloping, and even the lupines and poppies forgot their dispute in the excitement of watching the fun.

"He'll do it, too," said Dade distressfully.

Even had the neighbors chosen to take cognizance of those bereavements, they were not so unusual as to fix upon him any extraordinary interests an object of sight; and he was beginning most distressfully to realize that "great solitude" which the philosopher attributes to towns, when matters took a decided turn.

The old man groped distressfully with one hand.

And at those odd times when they are not praising her gowns, her wealth or her good looks, they'll be rather worse than insinuating that she knows all about the crimeif she didn't commit it herself!" He paced up and down the floor, his huge motoring coat flapping distressfully about his legs.

Her face became ashen; her hands shook distressfully as she clasped them tightly together.

Enrica asked, in a voice like a sighthen she stopped, and gazed up again distressfully into Pipa's face.

The thought suggested was that he had a prompter on the roof to whom he was distressfully appealing to supply the true phrase.

21 examples of  distressfully  in sentences