"Dreadfully" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... I suppose, because the boat was too heavy, and they would not part with the liquor. Foolish men, they will now not have more than six days' water, and will suffer dreadfully." ...
— The Little Savage • Captain Frederick Marryat
... be within reach of her. I was just going to bed, when she called for me to come in and see if there was something in the room—something alive, she thought, that had been hopping, hopping all around her bed, and frightened her dreadfully, poor thing, for, you remember, she was stone blind, Miss, which made it worse. So I hurried in and I shook the curtains, looked behind the bureau and under the bed, and tried everywhere for whatever might be hopping around, but could find nothing and heard ...
— Adopting An Abandoned Farm • Kate Sanborn
... but I could see you were different. Since then—well, you have now and then said something that made me see one could speak to you, and you would understand. So I—" She broke off suddenly and laughed an apology. "Am I boring you dreadfully? One grows so self-centered living ...
— Lonesome Land • B. M. Bower
... but there's plenty of time to get it by heart. I'm dreadfully nervous though. We have to sing it without any instruments, not even a harpsichord. All the songs are to be ...
— Madame Flirt - A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' • Charles E. Pearce
... it!—not she," replied the old woman. "Since the plague has raged so dreadfully, she has gone out as a nurse to the sick, and my poor son has seen nothing ...
— Old Saint Paul's - A Tale of the Plague and the Fire • William Harrison Ainsworth
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