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I gazed admiringly at her—to see her sink suddenly into a chair and weep abandonedly!

From The Princess Elopes by MacGrath, Harold

"It don't look like we was ever going to get a hitch," said the "Spider," after we had abandonedly offered ourselves to several automobiles.

From Biltmore Oswald The Diary of a Hapless Recruit by Dorgan, Dick

But to be without praise, and therein essay our powers, must we live ill, yea so abandonedly and atrociously, that no one should know without detesting us?

From The Confessions of St. Augustine by Pusey, E. B. (Edward Bouverie)

If I hadn’t loved Dinky-Dunk, fondly, foolishly, abandonedly, there would have been no little Dinkie and Poppsy and Pee-Wee.

From The Prairie Mother by Becher, Arthur E.

And I have absolutely no valid, no sound, excuse to make but that I am like that!—I mean I am an abandonedly bad writer of letters and acknowledger of kindnesses.

From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by James, Henry