What is "blessedly"

Usage examples of "blessedly".

After I did, I was glad of it, and gladder still to be wrapped in a thick cotton robe, clean and blessedly dry.

Slowly, her world had shrunken until the health of her horse and the blessedly empty path behind encompassed her entire world.

She almost begged them to leave her, but she heard a sharp challenge, words exchanged, and a blessedly familiar voice.

The door was so low that she had to crawl inside, but within it was blessedly cool and dark.

For months now he had been paralyzed by grief, unable to feel or think or move, but that morning with the sheep when he had passed from sleep into waking had brought blood back to his limbs, warmth to his skin feeling to his heart, painful but blessedly welcome.

To my relief, my guard remained blessedly silent as we traversed its marbled halls, contenting himself with hovering behind me and scowling at everyone we passed.

Mek Gamal called a halt, then, and we ate melons, their fruit faintly astringent, but blessedly moist.

Pradhan Mantri Sumantra stood and made a speech that was hugely popular on account of its being blessedly short, and then invited the maharaja to speak.

He sat at his desk, intending to put the finishing touches on his yearly Christmas sermon and then - on this blessedly unbooked Thursday evening - he was going to get to sleep before midnight.

One final slow curve around a boulder that was far too large for even the tireless marg-makers to shape, and they were suddenly blessedly blinking at soft but still warm sunlight, out of the wretched anjan avenue.

Lawlor drives, but like all superlatively difficult achievements the design of those useful engines was so blessedly simple that nobody felt incapable of the work that would make them whole and functioning again.

III After the hum of the Forum and the hurly-burly of the Roman squares, the Falco apartment was blessedly still, though faint noises rose from the street below and occasional birdsong could be heard across the acres of red tiled roofs.

Sharpe patted the boy on the head, wondering what Ahmed made of the slaughter that had been inflicted on his countrymen in the ravine, but the boy seemed blessedly unaffected.

He thought of the monastery, his six mute years with the Cistercians in which the only communication had been by means of sign language, in which each day had been blessedly the same-meditation and work.

Beale--it was striking--was in a position to animadvert more and more upon her dreadfulness, the moral of all which appeared to be how abominably yet blessedly little she had to do with her husband.