"Yes," he replied, drawling out the name affectedly, "I am M. Wilkie.". From Wordnik.com. [Baron Trigault's Vengeance] Reference
'affectedly' she had killed herself, and turned away from it. From Wordnik.com. [Dream Tales and Prose Poems] Reference
"The idea is too absurd," returned Emily, affectedly. From Wordnik.com. [Isabel Leicester A Romance by Maude Alma] Reference
Ha, ha, ha, hah (affectedly laugh-ed the baronet): but. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Charles Grandison] Reference
“Out upon you,” said the lady, laughing affectedly. From Wordnik.com. [Saint Ronan's Well] Reference
'Save your apologies, good Dionus, 'he lisped affectedly. From Wordnik.com. [The Conan Chronicles]
"Save your apologies, good Dionus, " he lisped affectedly. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian]
Miss Judy smiled sweetly, and patted her auburn curls affectedly. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman's Lady]
Not for your sake, Harriet Be not affectedly nice now; but for our own. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Charles Grandison] Reference
The kitten having had enough began to purr and move its paws affectedly. From Wordnik.com. [First Love] Reference
She is displeased with him for his affectedly-bashful hints of matrimony. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
Oh! Mr. Weston — (laughing affectedly) I must protest against that. —. From Wordnik.com. [Emma] Reference
Kharl brushes back a stray reddish hair, almost absently, yet affectedly. From Wordnik.com. [The Magi'i Of Cyador]
‘Swithin, don’t speak so affectedly, when you know so well what I mean!. From Wordnik.com. [Two on a Tower] Reference
Business must be well, not affectedly dressed; but by no means negligently. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference
She brings a sensibility that is feminine, feminist, and affectedly French. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-09-18] Reference
Kitaeva nodded her head and the big hat at every sentence and smiled affectedly. From Wordnik.com. [Resurrection] Reference
Men can be just as affectedly modest, or phony, I should say—especially Thatcher. From Wordnik.com. [Willow] Reference
Rumata spun around and found himself peering into the affectedly smiling face of Don Reba. From Wordnik.com. [Hard to be a god]
How Pantagruel met with a Limousin, who too affectedly did counterfeit the French language. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
‘Tell me, please,’ he added affectedly, and as it were reluctantly, ‘what’s your view of Louis the. From Wordnik.com. [The Jew and other stories] Reference
Quack doctors are indeed pompous, self-sufficient, affectedly solemn, venal and unfeeling with a vengeance. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
Yet the language, although it has some elegance, is so affectedly formal, that all sense of reality is destroyed. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Prose Fiction] Reference
When he spoke, his voice was affectedly gruff; he had a sad knack of sneering, and I never saw him thoroughly sober. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference
"What! you do not know whether you have received a letter from your cousin?" continued Clemence, laughing affectedly. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The place underwent the usual terrors of Jacobin purifaction, and was for a time affectedly called "nameless commune.". From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
Miss Grandison, affectedly whispered I again, should not do so; because her example is of weight enough to amend them. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Charles Grandison] Reference
Not only does he have a bad beard and an affectedly metropolitan manner, but this gargoyle pronounces the word "see" as "sam.". From Wordnik.com. [The Man of Feeling] Reference
Sir Sedley, a little flattered, affectedly answered: 'O, if you have any serious designs that way, incontestably I won't interfere.'. From Wordnik.com. [Camilla] Reference
'Swithin, don't speak so affectedly, when you know so well what I mean!. From Wordnik.com. [Two on a Tower] Reference
"I don't know what to say, I declare," cried she, affectedly; "can't you pass me?". From Wordnik.com. [Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World] Reference
Lord Windsor, (1244) very affectedly, said, "I am sorry I must say, guilty upon my honour.". From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1] Reference
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