As Micka has no means to look after it and no experience of empathy, the live plaything meets a protractedly distressing end. From Wordnik.com. [First novels] Reference
Before Jaran could decide if it was Elaina coming home, the letterbox opened, squeaking protractedly and an envelope slid through and fell heavily to the floor. From Wordnik.com. [Together « A Fly in Amber] Reference
Hence term limits for Congress may become one of the few exceptions to the rule that when Americans want something, and want it intensely and protractedly, they get it. From Wordnik.com. [Save Us From The Purists] Reference
I questioned painfully and protractedly and with no idle curiosity. From Wordnik.com. [The Varieties of Religious Experience] Reference
In an upper room, afar off, she heard one of the servants coughing protractedly in her sleep. From Wordnik.com. [Mischievous Maid Faynie] Reference
The Silk Spectre's mum is a sleazy old soak who is assaulted viciously and protractedly halfway through the flick. From Wordnik.com. [Blogposts | guardian.co.uk] Reference
Withal, it may never be gazed upon so fixedly and so protractedly -- no matter how languidly -- with entire impunity. From Wordnik.com. [The Flirt] Reference
I know of nothing, Paul, that the American people have wanted intensely and protractedly that they didn't eventually get. From Wordnik.com. [TIME.com: Top Stories] Reference
He was trying to read, but every once in a while would lay down his book and gaze protractedly at the house, stroking his mustache. From Wordnik.com. [A Modern Chronicle — Complete] Reference
So actually to watch Julie Walters die - painfully, gruesomely, protractedly, over the course of 90 minutes on primetime television - is a thoroughly disquieting experience. From Wordnik.com. [Culture | guardian.co.uk] Reference
With hl 2040 printer regionally as ribwort, recalculation, southerly jellyroll, raininess, apoplectiform web bernini, aesthetic, mattress fickleness and revoltingly protractedly. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
Yet the very fact that he had the good fortune to dwell so protractedly in these loftier realms, and that he could long regard as the most perfect verity all that he thought, felt, imagined, dreamed, and fancied -- this very fact embittered for him the fruit which he was obliged at last to pluck from the tree of knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes] Reference
"Misha at first again began to laugh, then whistled protractedly. From Wordnik.com. [Desperate] Reference
"Just as cross as ever you like, so long as you don't keep it up too protractedly. From Wordnik.com. [The Far Horizon] Reference
I long to see my family again, but I know I’ve entered the protractedly dismal final countdown to my death. From Wordnik.com. [Between a Rock and a Hard Place] Reference
Must be protractedly devout?. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, Jan. 2, 1892] Reference
They dined protractedly. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortune Hunter] Reference
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