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frightfully
1. Mum's not frightfully practical, to say the least, and Dad left things so that she would be okay financially but not able to touch capital
2. He’s frightfully sorry for the damage and the inconvenience, etc
3. It was a bit strange that she had not seen him yet but she supposed that he was frightfully busy with his business matters
4. Christmas in the Highlands can be frightfully cold and we all, even my housekeeper Maggie, go in search of warmer climates in winter
5. My brain was in one of those violent and yet frightfully calm conditions where reverie is so profound that it swallows up reality
6. Chartering a ship of that class was also unlikely and if chartered, it would be frightfully expensive, as would being a part owner
7. As she turned a cartwheel, she came frightfully close to the edge of the mesa
8. At first the trees retreated frightfully at the sight of the sharp blade and its restless owner
9. Sadly the reading comprehension passages in Japanese exams are often frightfully dull
10. 'To what?' she called out, looking quite scared--they seem frightfully anxious to please the governor
11. They sang, or rather screamed, a hymn, and so frightfully loud and piercingly that the very windows shook
12. After dinner I tried gossip, and encouraged him to tell me some, but he had such an unnatural number of relations that whoever I began to talk about happened to be his cousin, or his brother- in-law, or his aunt, as he hastily informed me, so that what I had intended to say had to be turned immediately into loud and unqualified praise; and praising people is frightfully hard work--you give yourself the greatest pains over it, and are aware all the time that it is not in the very least carrying conviction
13. Mother, why wouldn't you let the old man sit with us? He's a frightfully good sort
14. 'I'm frightfully sorry you are going,' he said
15. He'll be frightfully pleased
16. She called to the operator, "Give me something terribly new and frightfully
17. "A great woman," said he, "a strong woman, a grand woman, a frightfully grand woman!"
18. He once yearned so frightfully for that occupation, and it was so welcome when it came; no doubt it relieved his pain so much, by substituting the perplexity of the fingers for the perplexity of the brain, and by substituting, as he became more practised, the ingenuity of the hands, for the ingenuity of the mental torture; that he has never been able to bear the thought of putting it quite out of his reach
19. "Oh Jacob," said the girl, as they pounded up the hill in the dark, "I'm so frightfully unhappy!"
20. The shot had frightfully lacerated her throat, leaving two gaping wounds from which, as well as the mouth, the blood was pouring in floods
21. But he was undeniably handsome with an exquisite nose and he was what he looked, every inch a gentleman, the shape of his head too at the back without his cap on that she would know anywhere something off the common and the way he turned the bicycle at the lamp with his hands off the bars and also the nice perfume of those good cigarettes and besides they were both of a size too he and she and that was why Edy Boardman thought she was so frightfully clever because he didn't go and ride up and down in front of her bit of a garden
22. Albert turned frightfully pale; he endeavored to speak, but the words died on his lips
23. The count did not notice the introduction, in which the speaker announced that his communication would be of that vital importance that it demanded the undivided attention of the House; but at the mention of Yanina and Colonel Fernand, he turned so frightfully pale that every member shuddered and fixed his eyes upon him
24. The gipsy grumbled frightfully, and declared if he did a few more deals of that sort he'd be ruined
25. It was really Johnjohn who made him see reason about that girl; seriously, you know, he's frightfully sharp
26. He was talking to himself, but Gollum thought it was a riddle, and he was frightfully upset
27. 'I am frightfully sorry,' he said
28. When he hung up a minute later, the editor turned to young, frightfully ambitious Porter
29. brought into relief all the angles of her bones, and rendered her thinness frightfully apparent
30. "He's some frightfully poor wretch
31. Such a wish expressed by a traveller who had eaten a slice of mutton and had drunk a couple of bottles of wine with his supper, and who had not the air of being frightfully poor, would have been equivalent to an order
32. He approached the other door with more hope; it was frightfully decrepit; its very immensity rendered it less solid; the planks were rotten; the iron bands—there were only three of them—were rusted
33. It is useless to explain the sense of this frightfully transparent remark, which signifies both to kill, to assassinate, and to plunder
34. When they were exhausted, when these formidable men on the point of death had no longer either powder or ball, each grasped in his hands two of the bottles which Enjolras had reserved, and of which we have spoken, and held the scaling party in check with these frightfully fragile clubs
35. “He was most frightfully cruel
36. "The night was frightfully cold, although clear
37. My hat! Won't it make the old court sit up? They're always frightfully dull, these Assizes
38. "This is most extraordinary," the Doctor kept muttering to himself as his pencil went wiggling over the page—"Most extraordinary—but frightfully thrilling
39. The Doctor got frightfully excited
40. But just the same, he was frightfully popular
41. But there's that new theatre to be built; none of our carpenters would know how to get those rafters on without me to show them—And then there are the babies: these native mothers are so frightfully ignorant
42. He had a wife and a large family in the wall, and they had had frightfully bad luck for several days
43. Jane Andrews' mother scolded her frightfully because she had so many handkerchiefs in the wash that week
44. I felt frightfully vexed with myself that evening, but not so much the next day, and by the day after I had quite forgotten it
45. But didn't I make him suffer for it! I became frightfully overbearing
46. But I domineered over him frightfully, and absolutely went so far as insolence more than once, even against my owti feelings
47. It would have been frightfully stupid, of course
48. He bullied him frightfully, teaching him all sorts of tricks, so that the poor dog howled for him whenever he was absent at school, and when he came in, whined with delight, rushed about as if he were crazy, begged, lay down on the ground pretending to be dead, and so on; in fact, showed all the tricks he had taught him, not at the word of command, but simply from the zeal of his excited and grateful heart
49. He is frightfully stupid, Alyosha, frightfully stupid
50. He is frightfully stupid; but it's to his advantage