Distressfully [adverb]

Her heart throbbed distressfully; at the stir of wind-breath or any distant note of clamour she stopped, and held her breathing.

My head ached distressfully over the puzzle, but I could make nothing of it.

Dane fancied the boys were doing their utmost, but the progress they made appeared distressfully slow.

She let it stay, yet looked away from him, up through the darkling branches, and distressfully shook her head.

As she regarded his face, covered with a moist blueness, she thought distressfully that he was near to death.

But for some little time she was distressfully aware that she had never considered her parents in the matter at all.

So standing and distressfully musing, she heard the click of the Byingtons' door as Ruth left Leonard on the porch.

"I think you had better go—you must really catch your boat," Sir Claude said distressfully to Mrs. Wix.

"Eh, lad, but thou does take me up so, not giving me a chance to say—say—" She sank down distressfully on a chair.

Jukes cried distressfully; and the other repeated, "What would my old woman say if she saw me now?"