`Doctor Rother says it's his only chance,' she added distressfully.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Adjective : the distressful circumstances of poverty and sickness. ,a distressful cry.    From Dictionary.com. 

Sir Philip reddened distressfully, and bit his lip.    From Wordnik.com.  [A True Friend A Novel] Reference

Elisabeth brushed her hand distressfully across her forehead.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hermit of Far End] Reference

"Honest, Pud, I ain't your hat taking," said Carl distressfully.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ted Strong in Montana With Lariat and Spur] Reference

Marius distressfully pulled his lip and Margaret said anxiously.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Murder of Busy Lizzie]

Hat in hand, the old man lifted his head, and looked distressfully at.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Mutual Friend] Reference

“No, they were not in mine!” she roundly and distressfully returned.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Turn of the Screw] Reference

Miss Letitia gazed distressfully from Miss Eliza to Arethusa, and then back to Miss Eliza again.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart of Arethusa] Reference

Mr. George, who has turned quite white and looks distressfully at the grey cloak and straw bonnet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bleak House] Reference

She went, laughing, out of the chamber, and Camilla, who had seized a pen, distressfully flung it from her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Camilla] Reference

But for some little time she was distressfully aware that she had never considered her parents in the matter at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [A True Friend A Novel] Reference

And he was breathing heavily and distressfully himself, whilst he could hear how steadily Merritt's lungs were working.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crimson Blind] Reference

"But why should you go?" she cried, distressfully.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pit] Reference

She flushed distressfully, but kept her eyes on his.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hermit and the Wild Woman] Reference

Outstretched, would yield their breath distressfully.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Nature of Things] Reference

"But Theo, ... your feet!" she murmured distressfully.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Amulet] Reference

They came teeming distressfully through her aching brain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ann Veronica, a modern love story] Reference

She was rubbing distressfully at a dab of rouge on her cheek.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance] Reference

"Oh, I can't tell -- truly I can't," she pleaded distressfully.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Amulet] Reference

Once more, slowly, distressfully, the head turned on the pillow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dust Flower] Reference

Her cheeks coloured, and she looked distressfully about the room.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Odd Women] Reference

"No, they were not in mine!" she roundly and distressfully returned.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Turn of the Screw] Reference

When I said I would try she looked distressfully unassured and I added.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cavalier] Reference

Nana, who had been barking distressfully all the evening, was quiet now.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter and Wendy] Reference

He gazed distressfully into space, as if appealing to invisible arbiters.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lady Paramount] Reference

"It is really too much to ask of you," continued Mrs. Mabyn distressfully.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two on the Trail A Story of the Far Northwest] Reference

Hargus, his eye wandering again, looked distressfully from one to the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pit] Reference

"Oh, but I'm afraid that I'm terribly in the way," Bettina said distressfully.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glory of Youth] Reference

At present the girl felt that she had never before been so distressfully awake.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley] Reference

But in spite of his diplomatic surprise he hardly seems distressfully perturbed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young People's Pride] Reference

No doubt the sight of Pierre, wandering so distressfully in the gloom, had moved him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 3] Reference

But most distressfully he missed the physical feeling of the north -- even in his sleep.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Martian] Reference

"I don't know anyone of that name," answered Mrs. Clover as she turned distressfully away.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Town Traveller] Reference

The lanterns had somewhat dazzled me, and I ploughed distressfully among stones and rubbish-heaps.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25)] Reference