Example Sentences

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He stood perturbedly gazing after me; then I saw him asking questions of a civil guard.

From Romance by Conrad, Joseph

Chickens and cats, wading perturbedly in the water, as by common consent, with flight and scramble took refuge on the roof of the captain's house.

From South Sea Tales by London, Jack

It wanders perturbedly through the halls and galleries of the memory, and is often heard again, distinct and living as when it first displaced the wavelets of the air.

From Zanoni by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

The judge strode up and down the room perturbedly.

From Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain by Lowell, Orson

Well, perhaps it wouldn't be quite good taste," said Mrs. Vervain perturbedly, "but you needn't express yourself so violently, my dear.

From A Foregone Conclusion by Howells, William Dean