What is "fearfully"

Usage examples of "fearfully".

About the time I commenced noticing public matters, this question was agitating the Country almost as fearfully as the Slave question now is.

On her return she found Christopher telling his uncle all about the Bijou, and how he had taken it for a hundred and thirty pounds a year and a hundred pounds premium, and Uncle Philip staring fearfully.

A few moments later, as the crowd held its aching sides and mopped its eyes, Samson the Strong Man hauled prone, soaked, semi-conscious, fearfully hallucinating Buffo off up the gangway that led to the foyer as little children gave him one last tittering poke for luck before he vanished as from the face of the earth, while the clowns ran round and round the tiers of seats, kissing babies, distributing bonbons and laughing, laughing, laughing to hide their broken hearts.

Zoe watched fearfully as the young man began to strip off his jeans and Vanessa picked up a camcorder and set to work to film the unfolding scene.

The poor girl was so fearfully covered with the loathsome eruption, that on the sixth day her skin could not be seen on any part of her body.

However, after a hard day and night of marching, when Doli halted at the sheer face of a high cliff, the former giant began glancing about fearfully.

His eyes flicked fearfully toward the giff, who stoically waited for permission to start.

Boxall also gave me a bottle of Johnny Walker for Doc which she said Mr Goodhead of the Barberton Bottle Store had been fearfully sweet and let her have.

How fearfully like what might be the image of him in death, was the present image of him as he lay in his hushed and awful sleep!

Leonora waited as long as she dared, looked fearfully around the yard in case Kater Murr had associates hidden among the buddleia bushes, then pushed her way inside.

Slowly, her hand quivering fearfully, Laure reached out to catch the closed overlap of his coat.

Ellie Louden had arrived at Langridge House and fearfully told her friend about the gossip circulating that Letitia Stanaway had shot Desborough, and then escaped to the continent with Sir Humphrey Balshaw.

He looked half fearfully round at his new charioteer, and when he fancied he recognized the features of the deceased Mohar, the father of the traitor Paaker, he believed that Amon had assumed this aspect, and had come himself to save him.

Bird and orangutan, who had managed to secure three long rails, held back fearfully from the shop, since the freezing aura of the silver raddled our essences even halfway across the street.

The raiding party paused a dozen yards from the entrance, muttering fearfully.