Painfully

Examples

• Falsehood and artifice are in themselves so hateful, that, though I still thought I did right, a feeling of shame and guilt came painfully upon me. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• At first I was painfully awake and vainly tried to lose myself, with my eyes closed, among the scenes of the day. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It is only, ma'am,' Mr Sampson explained, in exceedingly low spirits, 'because, in a pecuniary sense, I am painfully conscious of my unworthiness. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The blood rushed to Dorothea's face and neck painfully. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But last summer he was again most painfully obtruded on my notice. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• IV The heat had been painfully oppressive all day, and it was now a close and sultry night. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It was a great step from the reciprocating hand saw, worked painfully by one or two men, to the band saw, invented by a London mechanic, William Newbury, in 1808. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Besides, in a country parish I should be so painfully reminded of Helstone, and my duties here. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I was so painfully uncertain whether it was my first duty to close my eyes, or to stop my ears, that I did neither. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• But I am painfully circumstanced. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He turned upon them his painfully circular eyes, surrounded by concentric lines like targets. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• You are too painfully honest. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• You can be painfully frank. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• By an unfortunate fall of his horse on the afternoon of the 19th he was painfully injured. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The tone in which he put the question jarred on me--there was something painfully suppressed in it. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• She continued either delirious or lethargic; and the doctor forbade everything which could painfully excite her. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Mr. Winkle looked up at the declining orb and painfully thought of the probability of his 'going down' himself, before long. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• It reminded me too painfully of that San Francisco undertaker who used to go to sick-beds with his watch in his hand and time the corpse. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Gudrun envied him almost painfully. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I thought you were, by your packing, replied Mrs. Yeobright in a voice from which every particle of emotion was painfully excluded. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• His pale, haggard face struck her painfully. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I had never in the whole of my previous experience found my duty and my inclination so painfully and so unaccountably at variance as I found them now. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The answer to that question is painfully doubtful. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• My dear, I have remained all night at my table, pondering again and again on what has so painfully passed between us. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• There was no restraint on the disposal of THEIR evening, and I felt the restraint on the disposal of mine all the more painfully from observing it. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Promise, and he raised himself painfully, and seized my arm, promise to bury me with them. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The little book amused, and did not painfully displease me. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Miss Clack is painfully conscious that she ought (in the worldly phrase) to feel herself put down. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Ever after that I knew what I was for _him_; and what I might be for the rest of the world, I ceased painfully to care. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The tumult of her mind, was now painfully great. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.

Editor: Sheldon