Example Sentences

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"Where are your spirits to-night?" she asked railingly.

From Blindfolded by Walcott, Earle Ashley

"Stephen, Stephen, what do you know of June and December, love's sunshine and the cold of the snow?" he said railingly.

From The Justice of the King by Drummond, Hamilton

I look also to be loaded by thee with disdain, scorn, and contempt; yea, that thou shouldest railingly and vilifyingly say I lie, and am a bespatterer of honest men's lives and deaths.

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by Bunyan, John

"You people," she railingly shouted, "go and do a lot of shameful things, and then you also deliberately involve me; but why?"

From Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by Joly, H. Bencraft

"Fish grow more rapidly out of water than in," railingly.

From Half a Rogue by MacGrath, Harold