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Examples
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"Oh, yes; a great deal more," said Nell despairfully.
Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden Charles Garvice
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There in that lancinating cold, in an ecstasy of rage, despairfully he poised over it.
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But Trafford had weakened in the night; the soup nauseated him; he refused it and tried to smoke and was sick, and then sat back rather despairfully after a second attempt to persuade her to leave him there to die.
The Literary World Seventh Reader Hetty Sibyl Browne 1907
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Instead of packing, the young man had evidently paced up and down in a state of emotional elaboration; the bed was disordered as though he had several times flung himself upon it, and his books had been thrown about the room despairfully.
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Then she wrung her hands despairfully as she surveyed the room.
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"I should think you'd give up, then," said Mrs. Perkins, despairfully.
The Booming of Acre Hill And Other Reminiscences of Urban and Suburban Life John Kendrick Bangs 1892
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"Oh, monsieur, almost the impossible," said the count despairfully.
Cleek, the Master Detective Thomas W. Hanshew 1885
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"You see, monsieur, how hopeless it is!" said the Count despairfully.
Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces Thomas W. Hanshew 1885
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"Oh, monsieur, almost the impossible," said the Count despairfully.
Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces Thomas W. Hanshew 1885
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"You see, monsieur, how hopeless it is!" said the count despairfully.
Cleek, the Master Detective Thomas W. Hanshew 1885
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