Example Sentences

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Who has not heard some one say, repentingly, “If I had taken a second, sober thought I would not have done it.”

From The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, May, 1880 by Walker, Aaron

I did not know why this was so, myself, so I only shook my head and sighed, repentingly.

From The Hermit Of ——— Street 1898 by Green, Anna Katharine