"Distressfully" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... something about the smoke-stack being as likely to go overboard as not. Jukes thought it very possible, and imagined the fires out, the ship helpless. . . . The boatswain by his side kept on yelling. "What? What is it?" Jukes cried distressfully; and the other repeated, "What would my old woman say if she saw ...
— Typhoon • Joseph Conrad
... invariably rejected by the Salon when Kami was plagued into allowing her to send them up. Her work in the future, it seemed, would be the preparation of pictures on exactly similar lines which would be rejected in exactly the same way——The red-haired girl threshed distressfully across the sheets. "It's too hot to sleep," she moaned; and the ...
— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling
... her, and resumed his walk about the room. He gazed distressfully into space, as if appealing to ...
— The Lady Paramount • Henry Harland |
