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Affrightedly

Affrightedly \Af*fright"ed*ly\, adv. With fright.
--Drayton.

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affrightedly

adv. (context archaic poetic English) with fright

Usage examples of "affrightedly".

I heard the girl scream affrightedly, and I knew, and felt my heart chill to know, that the tube had been wrenched from my hand!

Ellsworth, looking affrightedly about her as if she were being pursued.

Thus it was that these two flocks of sheep, the majority, and the minority faced each other affrightedly, and while the leaders on one side and the guides on the other, grave and attentive, asked themselves anxiously what could be the mewing of the grumbling, of the Left on the one side, of the bleatings of the Right on the other, they ran the risk of suddenly feeling the four claws of the _coup d'etat_ fastened in their shoulders.

At the sound of his voice she started up, and clasping his arm with her trembling fingers, to arrest his progress, looked affrightedly into his seared and listless countenance.