Every morning Emily listened miserably as she stood on the sandstone doorstep of the kitchen, for the sound of axe blows on the clear September air.
"Please—please, Miss Brownell," she stammered miserably, "don't read it—I'll rub it off—I'll do my sums right away.
She saw how miserably narrow, tepid, and trickling the stream of her life had been, and had threatened to be.
Yet speak of him she would; sometimes shyly, in quiet, brief phrases; sometimes with a tenderness of cadence, and music of voice exquisite in itself; but which chafed me at times miserably; and then, I know, I gave her stern looks and words; but cloudless happiness had dazzled her native clear sight, and she only thought Lucy—fitful.
It is true she had neither strong feelings to overcome, nor tender feelings by which to be miserably pained.
"Something has happened to Pat," the Story Girl declared miserably.
The Story Girl here flew out to defend her pet, and we four boys sat on, miserably conscious of Great-aunt Eliza, who never said a word to us, despite her previously expressed desire to become acquainted with us.
" Anne was miserably silent, hampered by her deductions from her conversation with Owen.
For some minutes he lay there miserably, but when the five hundred and eighty-seventh Heffalump was licking its jaws, and saying to itself, "Very good honey this, I don't know when I've tasted better," Pooh could bear it no longer.
St Ogg's is so miserably provided with musical gentlemen.
" Lydgate felt miserably jarred.
His troubles will perhaps appear miserably sordid, and beneath the attention of lofty persons who can know nothing of debt except on a magnificent scale.
He died rather miserably.
The whole affair was miserably small: his debts were small, even his expectations were not anything so very magnificent.
"Well, then," said Bobbie, fumbling miserably, yet not without hope, in her tightly stuffed pocket, "we wrote down all the things everybody said when they gave us the things, with the people's names, because Mother said we ought to be careful—because—but I wrote down what she said—and you'll see.
I gave him books to read, but after a page or two he would put the book down and stare miserably into space.
" "I must have tripped over a hidden branch or a stump," said the Mole miserably.
There she fell miserably short of the true heroic height.
And she was so miserably constructed that she wouldn't even be able to frown him down without being misunderstood.
Sure as she so miserably was that he would have no objection to anything she did, she merely wrote him a note and put it on the hall-table ready for him if and when he should come home.
