What is "distressingly"

Usage examples of "distressingly".

At such times the cure, sitting at piquet with Madame de Sevenie, after dinner, would cough distressingly and, reminded that he had a bed to reach somehow through all this welter, anathematise the elements, help himself to a pinch of snuff, and proceed with his play.

Aveline was distressingly strong-minded at times, and even though he would like to go on enjoying her, if she became troublesome about Anne he could always speak to Jassy and have her dismissed.

My own creed is distressingly simple -I believe that jokers and aces and nats are all just men and women and ought to be treated as such.

Gaius Marcellus Major and Gaius Coponius took charge of the twenty superb triremes Rhodes had donated to the distressingly persistent Cato, who refused to leave without them.

One gathered from it that that elusive and distressingly picturesque outlaw, the Saint, had set the Law by the ears again with a new climax of audacities: his name and nom de guerre waltzed through the bald paragraphs of the narrative like a debonair will-o'-the-wisp, carrying with it a breath of buccaneering glamour, a magnificently medieval lawlessness, that shone with a strange luminance through the dull chronicles of an age of dreary news.

Several distinguished doctors have remonstrated against the influence of this second nature, both savage and civilized, on the moral being vegetating in those dreadful pens called bureaus, where the sun seldom penetrates, where thoughts are tied down to occupations like that of horses who turn a crank and who, poor beasts, yawn distressingly and die quickly.

But the most recent favourite disobligingly developed blood poisoning after a miscarriage brought about too late, and died distressingly in the maids' dormitory at the Castle, and it cannot be kept from the Countess.

His flesh continues to crawl, yes, and cold bony fingers are still playing along the stem of his medulla oblongata, and unhappy intestinal maneuvers seem distressingly close to occurring.

He suffered intense agony, and would pass the whole night walking up and down the street in front of our tent, moaning distressingly.

Distressingly, though, his head was sitting neatly on the middle of the record which was revolving on the hi-fi turntable, with the tone arm snuggling up against the neck and constantly being deflected back into the same groove.

It is distressingly true that many, many slushpile stories lack such organization.

Although he still thought that her flesh was distressingly flabby and her mass worrisomely large, he liked the sweet smell of her breath and the gentle way she spoke his name-not “Dopey,” not even “Sneezy,” but “Sternutator,” in the Heechee tongue.