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  • Once we thought we had nearly lost it again, but before we had actually lost our momentum the thing recovered itself, and we ran fearingly down the broad avenue into Niort, and asked anxiously as to whether there might be a _grand maison des automobiles_ in the town.

    The Automobilist Abroad

  • The banker watched, fearingly, as Trevison shoved the weapon into its holster.

    'Firebrand' Trevison Charles Alden Seltzer 1908

  • Henrietta scrouged down at my feet, and I fearingly, but accommodatingly, accepted the other twin.

    The Tinder-Box Maria Thompson Daviess 1898

  • Let us pray, as the faithful servants of Christ prayed in the early days of the Church, -- not hesitatingly, not doubtingly, not fearingly!

    God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889

  • It was not motionless, -- it stirred now and then as though about to lift itself to some supernatural stature and bend above me or swoop down upon me like an embodied storm, -- and as I still gazed upon it fearingly, every nerve strained to an almost unsupportable tension, I could have sworn that two eyes, large and luminous, were fixed with a searching, pitiless intensity on mine.

    The Life Everlasting; a reality of romance Marie Corelli 1889

  • Let us pray, as the faithful servants of Christ prayed in the early days of the Church, -- not hesitatingly, not doubtingly, not fearingly!

    God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889

  • And still he looked pleadingly, earnestly, almost fearingly, into the face of his foundling.

    The Master-Christian Marie Corelli 1889

  • Let us pray, as the faithful servants of Christ prayed in the early days of the Church, -- not hesitatingly, not doubtingly, not fearingly!

    God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889

  • After having turned and flourished it about, he opened it fearingly, and read:

    An Iceland Fisherman Pierre Loti 1886

  • We marked the long, dark lashes of her eyes rising and falling, now trustingly, now fearingly, before that inscrutable countenance, as if her spirit wavered between

    Stories of Mystery Various 1885

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