What is "admiringly"

Usage examples of "admiringly".

And as for Nat Boody, whose stories he once listened to admiringly, what a scrubby personage he has become in his eye!

Ibn Battuta had come here after travels in Arabia and India and China, and written admiringly of the kingdom of Mali.

Amy Stonington, as she looked admiringly at Mollie, whose cheeks were flushed with excitement.

Xavier said admiringly as they skirted the melee and went on down the mountain.

Querini looked at her admiringly, and seemed to have all the confidence of success which a good action gives to the mind.

His business was packinghouses, but he took to the notion that a young man should be an attorney, a complete business in itself, he said admiringly.

Terious was not surprised to see that the tall southerner held his ground, but the continued presence of the great black cat, the simpleminded brute, and the husky swordsman led him to comment admiringly on their unity of purpose.

Christian gazed at them admiringly, thinking he had never seen a more beautiful sight than those two made in their kirtles of tapa cloth, with flecks of sunlight and shadows of leaves moving as the wind would have it across their faces and their slim brown bodies.

I showed them first to Vehiatua, who turned them admiringly in his hands.

They all three walked towards the house, Deuteronomy still clasping Patrick and gazing admiringly into his face.

The spectators admiringly applauded each new feat. Almost every one of them had owned at least one horse, and knew horses better than any other mode of transport, and could descry good horsemanship better than, say, good Hindu elephantmanship.

With this special dance in mind, Millicent Maude McGuckin's mother had made her a new gown of electric blue satin, wonderfully gathered so that it shimmered and crinkled as she moved, making her, as the instructor in Nature Study remarked admiringly, look just like an electric eel.

A friend had once admiringly said that a person could drop his wallet, containing his entire life savings in nonbonded chits, in one of the biggest colony's busiest streets and come back a week later and find it there.

Kochanski said admiringly to Mark, who could only shrug noncomittally, white wondering if he could teach the mind singer a little bit about the Big Band sound.

While the roustabouts removed the props, Edge said admiringly to her, "Florian spoke truly.