Example Sentences

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He was tossing his hands frightenedly, and shouting something that we could not comprehend.

From Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War by Townsend, George Alfred

I questioned her, anxiously, frightenedly; and she, nestling closer, explained, in that strange, faraway voice, that it was imperative she should leave me, before the Sun of Darkness—as she termed it—blotted out the light.

From The House on the Borderland by Hodgson, William Hope

"Not yet now," she answered half defiantly, half frightenedly.

From Peg O' My Heart by Manners, J. Hartley

She looked frightenedly from her husband to me, then back to him again.

From Rats in the Belfry by Cabot, John York

The man dropped the rope and sprang back along the roof to tumble frightenedly into the cockpit.

From The Adventure Club Afloat by Barbour, Ralph Henry