faint-heartedly

Then the motherly affection hindered the growth of the broader human feeling, burned it; and in place of a great sentiment a small, dismal thought beat faint-heartedly in the gray ashes of alarm:

Mother 2003

Mr. Polly backed rather faint-heartedly, but Aunt Larkins was not to be denied.

The History of Mr. Polly 2003

And as she regarded the figure, she thought of the numberless villages timidly pressed to the ground; of the people, faint-heartedly and secretly awaiting the coming of truth; and of the thousands of people who senselessly and silently work their whole lifetime without awaiting the coming of anything.

Mother 2003

For the first time I thought faint-heartedly of the greatness of the risk, of the adverse chances arrayed against me, of the fair promise of our new life, and of the peril in which I might place the happiness which we had so hardly earned.

The Woman in White 2003

And so, lagging faint-heartedly, he lost her in the maze of books.

Burned Bridges Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

Mavis set going a bell, which could be heard faint-heartedly tinkling in the distance; she employed the time that she was kept waiting in examining the statue.

Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl 1909

Mr. Polly backed rather faint-heartedly, but Aunt Larkins was not to be denied.

The History of Mr. Polly 1906

"Suppose, after I get up there on that plateau, I didn't find any man at all," I ventured faint-heartedly, but with a ripple of my risibles; the last in life I fear.

The Tinder-Box Maria Thompson Daviess 1898

Unwillingly, faint-heartedly, with murmurings and blasphemy against the

My Life in Christ, or Moments of Spiritual Serenity and Contemplation, of Reverent Feeling, of Earnest Self-Amendment, and of Peace in God 1829-1909 1897

And we must deal with our sorrows as we deal with any other gift of God, courageously and temperately, not faint-heartedly or wilfully; not otherwise can they be blest to us.

At Large Arthur Christopher Benson 1893