Frightfully

Examples

• Up came the man, and his face became more frightfully distorted than ever, as he drew nearer. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• His loose eyes rolled frightfully--not in terror, but in exultation. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The word demagogue has been frightfully maltreated in late years, but surely here is its real meaning--to flatter the people by telling them that their failures are somebody else's fault. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• This led to much joy and mirth over the pleasant suggestion of a frightfully distorted head, an onion head. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In those few weeks he had frightfully dissipated his little capital. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Are you less frightfully likely to become bored, marrying for no money and no station? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• They were such strangers--and yet they were so frightfully, unthinkably near. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• You know Fanny is FRIGHTFULLY in love with that painter, Billy Macfarlane. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I am frightfully confused regarding time and place; but I am so far mended as to feel that. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• I was very weak and faint, frightfully oppressed with drowsiness, and driving fast with the tide. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• A great woman, said he, a strong woman, a grand woman, a frightfully grand woman! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• How frightfully nice if you could! D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• There--there's a little dawg, said James, looking frightfully guilty. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Edward is frightfully expensive and dissipated. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Two or three of these men threw themselves out of a window, and injured themselves frightfully on the railings below without killing themselves. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He's the boy for you, my dear,' replied the Jew in a hoarse whisper; laying his finger on the side of his nose, and grinning frightfully. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.

Typist: Pierce