Blankly

Examples

• Then one day Faust asked Gutenberg blankly when he intended to repay him the money he had advanced. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Rinaldi looked at me blankly. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Both men looked blankly round without rising. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• What if, when he had bidden May Welland to open hers, they could only look out blankly at blankness? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Caliphronas, too startled to speak, stood looking blankly at the Demarch, pale as the marble pillar against which he leaned. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• It had no strategic foresight, because it was blankly ignorant of geography and ethnology. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Archer had seated himself near the window and was gazing out blankly at the deserted thoroughfare. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Archer looked at her blankly. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Ireland had become a land of peasants, blankly ignorant and helplessly priest-ridden. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Outside the temples the world was still a world of blankly illiterate and unspeculative human beings, living from day to day entirely for themselves. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• No, said Eustacia blankly. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I really can't say,' replied Eugene, shaking his head blankly, after pausing again to reconsider. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

Edited by Georgina