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I rejoiced in every one of my unhappy friend's responsive vibrations, even while feeling that they might as direfully multiply as those that had preceded them.

From A Passionate Pilgrim by James, Henry

Noises threatened her, and to them, the casual noises of the night, she gave ear anxiously, while above her the fight raged direfully and all unheard.

From Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases Seventeen Short Stories by Gibbon, Perceval

She felt very direfully stiff when she thought about it, but after the first moment she did not think about it.

From The Innocent Adventuress by Bradley, Mary Hastings

"Always in haste," said Miss Gould, with an effort at good humour, which Miss Ogilvie direfully mistrusted.

From Magnum Bonum by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

And the city began to take fire, and to burn very direfully; and it burned all that night and all the next day, till vesper-time.

From Memoirs or Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the Conquest of Constantinople by Villehardouin, Geoffroi de