disconsolately

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It happened in Easter week that I camped out disconsolately, and rose anxiously, having lost my way overnight.

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  1. In a disconsolate manner; without comfort. Upon the ground disconsolately laid, Like one who felt and wail′d the wrath of fate. J. Beaumont, Psyche, xix. 79.

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  • Perhaps a hundred more yellow ants were following in her wake A bit disconsolately, the boys wandered the shore of the giant lake. —  Asimov'sSF,August2007
  • Billy said disconsolately, the next night. —  Teddy: Her Book A Story of Sweet Sixteen
  • I'm awfully busy Judith went off disconsolately, and when she did try to express her regret at being chosen in place of Catherine, her endeavours, as she feared, were not a success. —  Judy of York Hill
  • It made her glad to think how happy he was when he left the house with his valise and umbrella, hurrying to catch the little bobtail car that wended its way across town to the Pennsylvania ferry So it came about that when Jenny, looking out of the window some few days later, saw him coming up the street slowly, disconsolately, almost dragging himself along, the little girl experienced a great shock. —  The Music Master Novelized from the Play
  • I meant to take the rail for Cape Town when my time should be up It happened in Easter week that I camped out disconsolately, and rose anxiously, having lost my way overnight. —  Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales
 

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