He said the word drearily, but not unkindly, and she did not resent his silence. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Day's Daughters] Reference
I hear the young orioles calling drearily from wet nests under dripping boughs. From Wordnik.com. [Aftermath] Reference
Need she so drearily depict the passing of summer?. From Wordnik.com. [Browning's Heroines] Reference
And wagged her head most drearily against the wall. From Wordnik.com. [The Minstrel A Collection of Poems] Reference
Rose, it was this: "How drearily unfortunate I am!". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866] Reference
"The fates are against me," says Luttrell, drearily. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
"I don't know -- I don't know," he said rather drearily. From Wordnik.com. [The Making of a Soul] Reference
The hour between nine and ten dragged by drearily enough. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall] Reference
And as she continued to sob drearily, I was beside myself. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
He sat down beneath a tree and clasped his hands drearily. From Wordnik.com. [Drolls From Shadowland] Reference
"Why did I trust my soul to her keeping?" he wailed drearily. From Wordnik.com. [Drolls From Shadowland] Reference
It's a drearily apt emblem of what suburban teen culture offers. From Wordnik.com. [White B-Boys In The Burbs, Or, Up Against The Mall] Reference
She wondered rather drearily how it would be after she was in bed. From Wordnik.com. [Elsie Marley, Honey] Reference
"I believe -- sometimes -- I almost hate her," said Toni drearily. From Wordnik.com. [The Making of a Soul] Reference
That drearily prevalent, invertedly snobbish contempt for articulacy?. From Wordnik.com. [To speak another language isn't just cultured, it's a blow against stupidity] Reference
Her hands dropped from her face, and she confronted the fact drearily. From Wordnik.com. [The Coast of Chance] Reference
As she went drearily up the stairway, Charlotte's thoughts turned with. From Wordnik.com. [The Pleasant Street Partnership A Neighborhood Story] Reference
“Well, this life is too much for me,” murmured Mrs. Purblind drearily. From Wordnik.com. [How to Cook Husbands] Reference
"That's what the telegram said," Grace answered, wiping her eyes drearily. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls at Bluff Point Or a Wreck and a Rescue] Reference
Slowly and drearily day followed day and time itself moved with leaden soles. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi and Priest A Story] Reference
"No. I thought you did -- but it doesn't matter," said Toni a little drearily. From Wordnik.com. [The Making of a Soul] Reference
Mrs. Compton talked drearily about the few topics on which she generally spoke. From Wordnik.com. [Cord and Creese] Reference
She laughed drearily as she uttered these words and came towards the fire saying. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
His eyes were fixed drearily upon the dish of biscuits which also graced the meal. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
"Now I don't know what we're going to do," said Vi, gazing drearily out of the window. From Wordnik.com. [Billie Bradley at Three Towers Hall or, Leading a Needed Rebellion] Reference
He faced about, drearily enough, and stood with downcast, unseeing eyes, in anxious pondering. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
The winter passed drearily along, the armies in all directions having only mud to contend with. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson] Reference
As they made their way drearily back toward the Woodruff Gate, the officer broke a long silence. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
He knew he couldn't risk meeting Tommy again, and drearily resigned himself to staying in his cabin. From Wordnik.com. [The Colors of Space] Reference
"I can't seem to get well, though, with the drag of the housework on my mind," the girl said drearily. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference
From its bowed head falls drearily upon the ear a low lament over the departed life it would commemorate. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Very drearily the hours pass to the old man and the girl waiting and listening in the large lonely house. From Wordnik.com. [Only an Irish Girl] Reference
When Swift got her turn at bat on Sunday, she sang drearily, referring to Kanye, "32 is still growing up.". From Wordnik.com. [On Oprah's first episode of the season, 'head-spinning' surprise] Reference
It had rained drearily from eight o'clock till two, and closed in suffocating mist, creeping and dense and chill. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference
It never passed, and a year later, although the time hung drearily with me, I would have been sorry to have seen it succeed. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Alexander drearily reaches out and takes a container of OJ, some milk (to be on the safe side), and sweetener for his coffee. From Wordnik.com. [Weary] Reference
She shook her head, and sighed drearily, for she had entered into the very being of the little beggar girl who sang for a penny. From Wordnik.com. [An Australian Lassie] Reference
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