But to be without praise, and therein essay our powers, must we live ill, yea so abandonedly and atrociously, that no one should know without detesting us?. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions] Reference
Fat gilded cupids sprawled abandonedly above the cupboards, tooting horns, waving their draperies, and generally looking as though they had been imbibing some of the more alcoholic wares of the shop. From Wordnik.com. [Dragonfly in Amber]
If she had loved that first time, as she had asserted, as he had seen with his own eyes that she did, desperately, abandonedly, how had it been possible for her to change front so quickly, to turn to him and love anew?. From Wordnik.com. [Maurice Guest] Reference
For though the harpooneers, with the great body of the crew, were a far more barbaric, heathenish, and motley set than any of the tame merchant-ship companies which my previous experiences had made me acquainted with, still I ascribed this — and rightly ascribed it — to the fierce uniqueness of the very nature of that wild Scandinavian vocation in which I had so abandonedly embarked. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick; or the Whale] Reference
Scandinavian vocation in which I had so abandonedly embarked. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick: or, the White Whale] Reference
He caught her in his arms, hungrily, and kissed her abandonedly. From Wordnik.com. [Phantom Wires A Novel] Reference
"Spider," after we had abandonedly offered ourselves to several automobiles. From Wordnik.com. [Biltmore Oswald The Diary of a Hapless Recruit] Reference
In the first days of their love she had been his slave; she had admired him abandonedly. From Wordnik.com. [O Pioneers!] Reference
If I hadn't loved Dinky-Dunk, fondly, foolishly, abandonedly, there would have been no little Dinkie and Poppsy and Pee-Wee. From Wordnik.com. [The Prairie Mother] Reference
Overwhelmed as he was by the frightful appearance of the young man, who was now weeping abandonedly, he had no fear of him, and his first act was a practical one -- he swiftly, quietly closed the door. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference
He was a tried man; and if there had been one more desperately and abandonedly corrupt, more wildly and flagitiously oppressive, to be found unemployed in India, large as his offers were, Mr. Hastings would not have taken this money from Debi Sing. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12)] Reference
For though the harpooneers, with the great body of the crew, were a far more barbaric, heathenish, and motley set than any of the tame merchant-ship companies which my previous experiences had made me acquainted with, still I ascribed this -- and rightly ascribed it -- to the fierce uniqueness of the very nature of that wild Scandinavian vocation in which I had so abandonedly embarked. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick, or, the whale] Reference
But not as abandonedly, he decided. From Wordnik.com. [Ship Of Destiny]
Prone at her feet abandonedly?. From Wordnik.com. [The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 1] Reference
But she swept on, abandonedly. From Wordnik.com. [Phantom Wires A Novel] Reference
Springing from rock to pool abandonedly. From Wordnik.com. [The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 1] Reference
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