Example Sentences

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What had been so basely striven for was sorrily won at last.

From The Inn at the Red Oak by Griswold, Latta

Sometimes his mount would slip, and the horseman would find himself at the bottom of the ditch, sorrily looking at his dirty hands and barked knees.

From Jean-Christophe, Volume I by Cannan, Gilbert

But sorrily will the great folks be encouraged to relax their exclusiveness, either socially, or as proprietors of parks and picture galleries, by representing them as doing so merely in a spirit of baseness.

From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various

Of these, the Brunswickers and Hanoverians behaved very well; the Belgians but sorrily enough.

From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) by Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson)

The last-named, too, was another La Fontaine in simplicity, preparing for his grandest predications by sorrily rasping on an execrable fiddle.

From The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims Volume II (of II) by Steinmetz, Andrew