scatteringly

Wednesday — her brothers, and some of their people, will scatteringly, and as if they knew nothing of you, [so we have contrived,] see you safe not only to London, but to her house at

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

Then foreseeing the enemy would endeavor to steal scatteringly into the city in the dark, he posted strong parties of the Achaeans all along the watercourses and sloping ground near the walls.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

Being to speak of some places, scatteringly taken notice of here and there, let us begin with the Roman garrisons, which were dispersed all the land over: and this we do the rather, because the Notitia Imperii, whence they are transcribed, is not so common in every one's hand.

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

They were not wont, say the Glosses, to bury men of the same family here and there, scatteringly, and by themselves, but altogether in one cave: whence, if any one sells his neighbour a place of burial, he sells him room for two caves, or hollows on both sides, and a floor in the middle.

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

She pushed cautiously down to the edge of the rocks where the bushes grew scatteringly, pretending to herself that she wanted a bit of wild geranium that flourished in a crevice far below the top.

Judith of the Cumberlands Alice MacGowan

Leaving the Taw and crossing the country to the south, and a little to the west, one reaches the Torridge, and Torrington, a town 'built scatteringly, lying at length, as it were, upon the brow of a hill hanging over the river.'

Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote

They made a great contrast as they sat together in the woody shade, where the woodbine-scented breeze was fanning softly, and the quivering light fell scatteringly.

Left at Home or, The Heart's Resting Place Mary L. Code

A large number of crude thatched huts had been erected scatteringly at the bases of the trees surrounding the level clearing.

Terry A Tale of the Hill People Charles Goff Thomson

At first they came scatteringly, riding the foaming waves end-on, and sometimes colliding with the stone piers of the bridge with sufficient force to split the unhewn timbers from end to end, some being laid open as neatly as though done with axe and wedge.

Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret Annie Roe Carr

In a few minutes the rush was over, and then they came scatteringly, singly, and by twos and threes.

The Challenge of the North 1921