`I miss the good old days,' she added sentimentally. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a sentimental song. ,We kept the old photograph for purely sentimental reasons. ,the sentimental Victorians. From Dictionary.com.
"Dear roses," said Mrs. Barraclough, sentimentally. From Wordnik.com. [Men of Affairs] Reference
"She went for my sake," said Margaret sentimentally. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844] Reference
Already he had rocketed sentimentally into inspiration. From Wordnik.com. [Kenny] Reference
“He loved you too much,” said Valeria sentimentally. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
Here was the first "sinner" caught; sentimentally lynch him. From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
He seemed rather grave, and yet not at all sentimentally sad. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875] Reference
"Madeleine must be perfectly happy," sighed Eleanor sentimentally. From Wordnik.com. [Madge Morton's Victory] Reference
"Well," he said, going to the door and smiling sentimentally at Miss. From Wordnik.com. [Little Lost Sister] Reference
He was sentimentally opposed to slavery, but he was afraid of freedom. From Wordnik.com. [The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights] Reference
I only play that when -- well, when I am sentimentally inclined, you know. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Dexie A Romance of the Provinces] Reference
"And have I found you?" he cried sentimentally, apostrophising the ceiling. From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Twins] Reference
The blue eyes and the feminine lips softened as sentimentally as any sex-starved. From Wordnik.com. [Witch-Doctors] Reference
Then darkness settled over the grave sentimentally like a kitten on the neck of a man. From Wordnik.com. [The Grave of Rimbaud] Reference
The first group is, of course, the most important, both practically and sentimentally. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index] Reference
He sighed sentimentally, and took out Marjorie's little pink note from his pocket-book. From Wordnik.com. [The Imaginary Marriage] Reference
Artistically and sentimentally, of course, one deeply regrets the flooding of the temple. From Wordnik.com. [The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology] Reference
What will be the thing that you truly remember -- sentimentally, emotionally, spiritually?. From Wordnik.com. [Interview Of President On Af 1 En Route Home] Reference
But they express it more unconsciously, more instinctively, less sentimentally, than Gorki. From Wordnik.com. [Maxim Gorki] Reference
Winnie who could never, under any circumstances, be accused of being sentimentally inclined. From Wordnik.com. [Rainbow Hill] Reference
They were opposite to the house by this time, and he looked up at the windows sentimentally. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
Tims, temporarily oblivious of all awkward circumstances, continued, still more sentimentally. From Wordnik.com. [The Invader A Novel] Reference
She would have found it difficult to say why, for Hiram had never spoken sentimentally to her. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862] Reference
Her position physically and sentimentally was awkward; the doctor called the nurse and left her. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
"Don't speak so unkindly," said Bertie, sentimentally, flinging himself on the sofa by her side. From Wordnik.com. [Bluebell A Novel] Reference
"Is he handsome?" asked Mrs. Leigh, sentimentally, whose thoughts had flown back to earlier days. From Wordnik.com. [Bluebell A Novel] Reference
The scenery of this journey has set me thinking; and so I have written rather sentimentally, but truly. From Wordnik.com. [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference
"D'you know, the moment I saw you ----" he began sentimentally; "but never mind that now," he broke off. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
"What a child you are still, Miranda," said her mother, sentimentally, as she fondled the high cheek-bone. From Wordnik.com. [A Heart-Song of To-day] Reference
For he had come to that, sentimentally, that Becky was the white dove that he would shelter against his heart. From Wordnik.com. [The Trumpeter Swan] Reference
"Really," they say sentimentally, after concurring that, yes, it is very difficult to find work in this economy. From Wordnik.com. [Cara McDonough: A Mother's 'Time Out'] Reference
ZAHN: Now, Denzel Washington plays this Naval psychiatrist who has been sentimentally important person in your life. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 10, 2003] Reference
Then she sat back on her heels, her head a-tilt like a curious bird's, her eyes beaming sentimentally upon the bride. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortieth Door] Reference
"I always liked the 'False Bride' and 'Rapunzel,'" remarked Jessica sentimentally, who had come up beside Grace and Tom. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College] Reference
I'm also starting to feel somewhat sentimentally attached to the state of California, and to this institution in particular. From Wordnik.com. [readersguide Diary Entry] Reference
"No right shall be without a remedy," save when it is sentimentally suggested that somebody's right may be somebody else's wrong. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 28, 1891] Reference
‘Bless their hearts!’ said Laura sentimentally, for she was at the age when she felt like a mother to all boys two years her junior. From Wordnik.com. [The Dancing Druids]
A good many of them, like Abraham Lincoln, were sentimentally adverse to slavery, but under existing conditions did not want it disturbed. From Wordnik.com. [The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights] Reference
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