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Shakespeare has been but scatteringly surveyed this season by the more earnest theatre followers.

From Time Magazine Archive

This was followed, scatteringly, by the bells of the different tables d'h�te.

From Phantom Wires A Novel by Brown, Arthur William

One week-day when the mountain-air of Widewood was sweet with wild grapes, some six persons were scatteringly grouped in and about the narrow road near the March residence.

From John March, Southerner by Cable, George W.

Lights shone scatteringly in the buildings of St. Agatha’s, but the place was wholly silent.

From The House of a Thousand Candles by Nicholson, Meredith

Half an hour later the raindrops began to fall, at first scatteringly and then in a steady downpour.

From Three Young Ranchmen or, Daring Adventures in the Great West by Bonehill, Ralph