Example Sentences

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In the distance a moving object attracted his attention, and as he gazed at it, long and strainingly, the terrible smile once more wreathed his white lips.

From The Redemption of David Corson by Goss, Charles Frederic

His mind, fixed strainingly upon this one, all-engrossing object, lost its balance, and he could no longer reason upon his own course, or see its futility, or devise a better.

From Fairy Fingers A Novel by Ritchie, Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt

They were pulling not only the full power of the Ardan warships, but also the immeasurably greater power of the strainingly overloaded Strettsian generators themselves.

From Masters of Space by Berry, Robert Lee

And then the bird rose, slowly, strainingly, with her vast pinions winnowing the air with deep "how-hows!"

From The Way of the Wild by Rountree, Harry

They both listened, breaths held waiting between their lips, their heads raised strainingly from their pillows.

From Sally Bishop A Romance by Thurston, E. Temple (Ernest Temple)