"Dreadfully" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... fat, Wilson grew thin, and Robert could not sleep at nights. The air was too relaxing or soft or something for them both, and poor Wilson declares that another month of Venice would have killed her outright. Certainly she looked dreadfully ill and could eat nothing. So I was forced to be glad to go away, out of pure humanity and sympathy, though I keep saying softly to myself ever since, 'What is ...
— The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II • Elizabeth Barrett Browning
... take a little water," Elma murmured, pouring out the last few drops for him into the tin cup—for Cyril had brought a small bottleful that morning for his painting, as well as a packet of sandwiches for lunch. "You're dreadfully tired. I can see your lips are parched ...
— What's Bred In the Bone • Grant Allen
... so. They all said so," said Minnie, folding her little hands in front of her. "I only remember some smoke, and then jolting about dreadfully on the shoulder of ...
— The American Baron • James De Mille
... time Miss Crocodile knew better than to wait, and being now dreadfully angry, she crawled away to the Jackal's hole, ...
— The Junior Classics, Volume 1 • Willam Patten
... Poets' was the objection of the classical to the romantic school. Jeffrey's brightness of intellect may justify Carlyle's comparison of him to Voltaire,—only a Voltaire qualified by dislike to men who were 'dreadfully in earnest.' Jeffrey was a philosophical sceptic; he interpreted Dugald Stewart as meaning that metaphysics, being all nonsense, we must make shift with common-sense; and he wrote a dissertation upon taste, to prove that there are no rules about taste whatever. He was ...
— The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) - James Mill • Leslie Stephen
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