As for Whatever Works, I was sorrily disappointed. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-07-01] Reference
What had been so basely striven for was sorrily won at last. From Wordnik.com. [The Inn at the Red Oak] Reference
You would sorrily mistaken if you were so naiive as to assume so. From Wordnik.com. [PART 1/3: Nicki Minaj and the Paradox of Hip Hop Feminism « Gender Across Borders] Reference
“I, too, cost a good deal, like the horses and wagons and corn,” she said, looking up sorrily. From Wordnik.com. [The Woodlanders] Reference
But it falls from us, vanishes, we are topping and slicing, and heeling, and missing again as sorrily as ever. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, January 16, 1892] Reference
It is thus that ideals die; not in the conventional pageantry of honoured death, but sorrily, ignobly, while one's head is turned. From Wordnik.com. [Personality in Literature] Reference
At our two local multiplexes the third, rather sorrily, doesn't even have Wednesday showtimes up yet, Mann's flick is getting a total of 12 showtimes daily. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
I am sorrily afraid that if there is not strong statements of solidarity by the US for the Lebanon people, the expabsion of this conflict will escalate out of control. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Rice abandons talks, shuttles back to the United States.] Reference
Then Lirette looked him in the face, smiling a little sorrily. From Wordnik.com. [The Blue Flower] Reference
She had a plenty & a variety but it was sorrily served up I board with. From Wordnik.com. [Letter from Richard Harrison Speight to his mother, September 25,1867] Reference
Brunswickers and Hanoverians behaved very well; the Belgians but sorrily enough. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10)] Reference
If you believe he is starting to learn about economics then you are sorrily mistaken. From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference
"I, too, cost a good deal, like the horses and wagons and corn," she said, looking up sorrily. From Wordnik.com. [The Woodlanders] Reference
He marked the raising of the black flag as the Gaston castaways, getting sorrily afloat one by one, cleared their decks for action. From Wordnik.com. [The Grafters] Reference
It is thus that ideals die; not in the conventional pageantry of honoured death, but sorrily, ignobly, while one's head is turned. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Wives' Tale] Reference
The last-named, too, was another La Fontaine in simplicity, preparing for his grandest predications by sorrily rasping on an execrable fiddle. From Wordnik.com. [The Gaming Table : Its Votaries and Victims : Vol. 2] Reference
Yet for this and other hardships that he endured on this account, at this time, he was but sorrily rewarded, as by and by will come to be observed. From Wordnik.com. [Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies] Reference
Paul took up sorrily his wife's rather hysterical note of self-mockery, and laughed and joked over the varied eccentricities of the pretentious menu. From Wordnik.com. [The Squirrel-Cage] Reference
If any good friend take me on his lap, said Philina, I shall be content, though we sit crammed together never so close and sorrily: tis all one to me. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter IV. Book IV] Reference
A sorrily state, but a friend in need!. From Wordnik.com. [Ode To A Solitary Pied Butcherbird] Reference
You will be sorrily missed, my friend. From Wordnik.com. [Goodbye Old Friend. R.I.P. Rajeev Motwani] Reference
If you believe me sorrily mistaken, do tell. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference
And before all, "he added, looking ruefully upon his clothes --" before all, to be so sorrily besmirched! ". From Wordnik.com. [The Black Arrow] Reference
He laughed sorrily and softly. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Theodosia's Heartstrings] Reference
Then he smiled, rather sorrily. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady Paramount] Reference
Because Parcus wrote but sorrily. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2] Reference
The steward provides very sorrily. From Wordnik.com. [Letter from John and Ebenezer Pettigrew to Charles Pettigrew, October 3, 1795] Reference
I, whom you have made dance so sorrily?. From Wordnik.com. [The Grey Cloak] Reference
That would have dealt a sorrily humiliating blow. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortieth Door] Reference
Lodged sorrily. ". From Wordnik.com. [Indian Poetry Containing "The Indian Song of Songs," from the Sanskrit of the Gîta Govinda of Jayadeva, Two books from "The Iliad Of India" (Mahábhárata), "Proverbial Wisdom" from the Shlokas of the Hitopadesa, and other Oriental Poems.] Reference
To fly with, being so sorrily wed! ". From Wordnik.com. [Late Lyrics and Earlier : with Many Other Verses] Reference
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