Example Sentences

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He stopped dead with hanging arms and looked strickenly in the direction whence it came.

From The Huntress by Footner, Hulbert

There was, in fact, something almost dignifying in that strickenly defiant face of hers.

From The Prairie Child by Ward. E. F. (Edmund Franklin)

“That was only because I was naughty,” she pleaded, strickenly, but she knew in her soul it wasn’t “only because.”

From The Very Small Person by Elliott, Elizabeth Shippen Green

She faltered, meeting the measureless reproach in Sara's eyes, and strickenly aware of the hateful interpretation she had put upon the same incident when describing it to her on a former occasion.

From The Hermit of Far End by Pedler, Margaret

So did the thrush, but never before had he kept so utterly, stonily, frozenly, strickenly motionless.

From The Way of the Wild by Rountree, Harry