Use sadly in a sentence
Sentences starting with sadly
- Sadly deformed about the spine and the feet. [6]
- Sadly the family sat down to supper without her, and after supper Mr. Merrill sent a message to his club that he could not attend a committee meeting there that evening. [9]
Sentences ending with sadly
- When the door was shut she went to the bed, sat down on a chair beside it, and looked at Ferrol earnestly and sadly. [11]
- The old landlady was crying and moaning, and her husband was wiping his eyes and shaking his head sadly. [6]
- So Cynthy's b'en took," he said sadly. [9]
- Nonsense; it is the work of human hands--very human hands," he added sadly. [11]
- He did not tear it with the hot impatience of some lovers, but cut it open neatly, slowly, one would say sadly. [6]
- He hoped that she would speak, but she only smiled sadly. [11]
- Her voice faltered sadly. [9]
- He smiled somewhat sadly. [9]
- The other smiled sadly. [11]
- He's pretty low, now, poor fellow," added the Colonel, sadly. [9]
Short sentences using sadly
- I'm sadly bewildered, sadly bewildered. [5]
- She smiled a little sadly. [9]
- Austen smiled a little sadly. [9]
- She shook her head sadly. [9]
- I shook my head sadly. [9]
- She shook her head sadly. [11]
- I smiled sadly. [9]
More example sentences with the word sadly in them
- And yet, and yet," he added, half sadly, "how futile has been all our fighting, so far as human eye can see. [11]
- They had not yet formed in rank and file, but were grouped round the centurion Martialis, who had come to tell them, sadly, of his removal to Edessa, and to take leave of his comrades. [10]
- Sadly, in accordance with the treaty which Monsieur Talleyrand had known nothing about, his Catholic Majesty instructed his Intendant at New Orleans to make ready to deliver Louisiana to the French Commission. [9]
- But, hereafter, I will turn me sadly away and say; "This does not answer--this isn't the style of king that I am acquainted with. [5]
- They were shocked when they heard him cap an argument upon grave affairs of state with a story about "a man out in Sangamon County,"--a story, to be sure, strikingly clinching his point, but sadly lacking in dignity. [7]
- One snowy night, when the report was due, I started out, sadly wondering how I was to get it. [5]
- One snowy night when the report was due, I started out sadly wondering how I was going to get it. [5]
- Therefore, five gentlemen were appointed to prepare the document, and the fifty others went sadly smiling about the ship--practicing. [5]
- The year 1735 was rendered sadly memorable by the epidemic of the terrible disease known as "throat distemper," and regarded by many as the same as our "diphtheria. [3]
- Abner Briggs, Junior, was a great, hulking fellow, who had been bred to butchering, but urged by his parents to attend school, in order to learn the elegant accomplishments of reading and writing, in which he was sadly deficient. [6]
- Cynthia loved these walks, for she sadly missed the country air,--and they had kept the color in her cheeks and the courage in her heart that winter. [9]
- We took a walk, but my spirits were very, very sadly dampened. [5]
- I hesitated, sadly torn between duty and inclination. [9]
- After a long time he slowly and sadly changed his position, and took up this object with a sigh. [5]
- While Rostov was thus arguing with himself and riding sadly away, Captain von Toll chanced to ride to the same spot, and seeing the Emperor at once rode up to him, offered his services, and assisted him to cross the ditch on foot. [2]
- For I knew they missed me sadly of a Sunday at the supper-table. [9]
- I gathered that they found themselves sadly out of their element in that kind of business at first, but afterward got accustomed to it, reconciled to it, and more or less at home in it. [5]
- But to all these kind speeches the young man only sadly shook his head. [10]
- His admiration of them was complete, although he sometimes laughed half sadly, half whimsically, as he thought of their simple faith in him. [11]
- Honora had told them so, and colour was lent to her assertions by the fact that their mother, when they repeated this to her, only smiled sadly, and brushed her eyes with her handkerchief. [9]
- The purity of the water was sadly dimmed, and the billows dashed foaming toward the sky, threatening in their violent assault to shatter the marble dike erected along the shore. [10]
- But here, while the sun shines above our heads, and everything is bright and happy, we are sitting sadly down, and losing time. [12]
- He looked at the crowd, and rendered more hopeful by the expression he read on the faces there, he smiled sadly and timidly, and lowering his head shifted his feet on the step. [2]
- No wonder we take our amusements sadly, and that so many people find dinners heavy and parties stupid. [4]
- The broken figures supporting the burden of the chimney-piece, though mutilated, were still distinguishable for what they had been--far different from the dust without--and showed sadly by the empty hearth, like creatures who had outlived their kind, and mourned their own too slow decay. [12]
- While I was suffering from it, I wrote some sadly desponding poems, and a theological essay which took a very melancholy view of creation. [6]
- Time and again, strangers were astounded to see a wasted, pale, and woe-worn man laboriously climb a telegraph-pole in wintry and lonely places, perch sadly there an hour, with his ear at a little box, then come sighing down, and wander wearily away. [5]
- The old man smiled sadly, but made no answer as he sat down again. [8]
- At last she slowly turned to Melissa, who stood gazing sadly at the ground, and said in a low voice: "She resembled you in many ways. [10]
- Then he sadly shook his head and gazed up at the walls of the court, which had been decorated in his honor with hangings and garlands of flowers. [10]
- But Miss Manners sat very still, biting her lip, and I knew she was sadly vexed that you had not gone to her in Arlington Street. [9]
- Romances, Cynthia thought sadly, were one thing to theorize about and quite another thing to endure--and smiled at the thought. [9]
- Herr Berthold, smiling sadly, watched the conduct of the masterless servants; then raising his cap, bowed with the utmost respect to the disconcerted revellers, and said courteously, "I hope it will agree with you all. [10]
- I told him, sadly, that my duty took me to America. [9]
- She turned away sadly, for she could not even comfort him. [10]
- She turned away sadly, but Madame Marie had been roused by the official's churlishness, and for once the placid little body spoke in that vulgar tongue which needs no interpretation. [11]
- But he said sadly to himself, that his life had been a failure,--that he had nothing to show for it, and his one talent was ready in its napkin to give back to his Lord. [6]
- Then they trooped sadly on to school, resolved to make matters as disagreeable as possible for poor Miss Bruce, who had not offended in any way. [9]
- She watched him sadly for a moment, and then, leaning over and touching him gently on the shoulder, said: "It's worse for you than it is for me, father. [11]
- As I nodded sadly enough, she must have seen in my face that I missed the little volumes and, ere I was aware, she had taken them out of her chest and thrown them in with the rest. [10]
- Boney must have sadly disconcerted the comfortable system of these old warriors by the harrowing, restless, cut-and-slash mode of warfare that he introduced. [4]
- She looked back sadly at Garoche, standing for a minute very still. [11]
- He smiled something sadly and continued: "Oh, I know you think it foolishness. [11]
- This letter I read myself, and I plainly saw that these twain had sadly marred their best joy in life by over-hasty ire. [10]
- The few persons present had gathered in a group and were talking sadly about the great misfortune which had assailed the Emperor. [10]
- When he had passed, her head fell and she said sadly enough: "Poor fellow!--We have bought our wreaths for nothing after all, Demetrius! [10]
- At last she passed her hand quickly across her brow, as if to dispel some unpleasant thought, and shook her burning head, half sadly, half disapprovingly. [10]
- Even the beautiful Pantheon, whose pagan altars uphold the cross, now, and whose Venus, tricked out in consecrated gimcracks, does reluctant duty as a Virgin Mary to-day, is built about with shabby houses and its stateliness sadly marred. [5]
- But when, so painfully surprised that her eyes filled with tears, she confessed that her selection perhaps had not been very appropriate, and sadly added the inquiry why her beloved sovereign condemned a trivial offence so harshly, he wrathfully exclaimed, "For more than one reason. [10]
- I remember one of our ancient Cambridge Doctors once asked me to get into his rickety chaise, and said to me, half humorously, half sadly, that he was like an old horse,--they had taken off his saddle and turned him out to pasture. [3]
- Bartja, who till now had remained perfectly silent, looking down sadly at his chained hands, took advantage of the silence to say, making at the same time a deep obeisance: "May I be allowed to speak a few words, my King? [10]
- Elderly gentlemen of Northern persuasion paused in their homeward walk to smile in admiration, --some sadly, as Mr. Brinsmade. [9]
- But there was no uproarious jollity; on the contrary, it was a pleasant gathering of literary people and artists, who took their pleasure not sadly, but serenely, and I do not remember a single explosive guffaw. [6]
- And this, with no small pains, I was able to do; and when I was aware that he had suffered no mortal hurt, I clambered up on to the road again, and then once more my heart began to beat sadly. [10]
- But there is no question that these picturesque maidens sadly lack comeliness. [5]
- He sent us news at once of this strange occurrence, but instead of rejoicing your father shook his grey head sadly, saying: 'he saw now it was impossible for any one to avoid his destiny! [10]
- He brought sadly needed help with him, consisting of the savings of a year and a half of work--nearly two hundred dollars in money. [5]
- But we sadly needed an executive head. [9]
- His hat was nearly gone; he was sadly out of repair in the rear; his short legs made the act of walking absurd; but he trudged up the hill with a certain dignity. [4]
- Sighing sadly, she moved onward with drooping head, and started violently when her brother Moses' deep voice called to her from the old sycamore. [10]
- I thought there might be some excitement in this matter, and I was sadly mistaken. [9]
- Moor ordered roast meat and wine for the Lansquenet, who sat modestly in one corner of the large public room, gazing sadly at his wounded arm. [10]
- On this particular March afternoon the weather had become morne, as the French say; and I looked down sadly into the grey back yard which the wind of the morning had strewn with chips from the Petrel. [9]
- Some people are malicious enough to think that if the devil were set at liberty and told to confine himself to Nevada Territory, that he would come here--and look sadly around, awhile, and then get homesick and go back to hell again. [5]
- It is partitioned lengthwise, and through one compartment walked such as bore light sentences in ancient times, and through the other marched sadly the wretches whom the Three had doomed to lingering misery and utter oblivion in the dungeons, or to sudden and mysterious death. [5]
- The things she learned were evil and heart-rending; for joyously as the procession had marched forward on the first day, it dragged along sadly and hopelessly on the second. [10]
- But as he journeyed onward, he was mindful of the advice of his father, who had often looked sadly on the ground, when tears of cruelly deceived hope moistened his eyes. [5]
- But as he journeyed onward, he was mindful of the advice of his father, who had often looked sadly on the ground when tears of cruelly deceived hope moistened his eye. [5]
- My father reads it over and over, and shakes his head sadly, for, truth is, he has a fear that the world may lay its hand upon thee. [11]
- She rose, went into the house, and left me thinking of the presumptions of the hopes I had dared to entertain, left me picturing sadly the existence of which she had spoken. [9]
- It is once in a lifetime," she answered sadly. [11]
- But since then, I am bound to admit," added the president, sadly, "Austen seems not to have looked at a lesson. [9]
- No coffee, I hope, though,--it depresses me sadly. [6]
- Whereupon he shook his head very slowly and sadly, as much as to imply that, if the Truro Bill did not pass, the corruption of the ballot was to blame. [9]
- Radiant magnificent as his former fortunes seemed the attire of this mighty fallen hero, who but yesterday had shrunk timidly and sadly from the eyes of his fellow-men. [10]
- He put out his arm to clasp her to his heart, but this she would not permit; and when he besought her to go home with them she answered sadly, "No, my dearest . [10]
- Hosea had prostrated himself before the throne and, when he rose, the king's weary face was bent toward him, sadly, it is true, yet graciously. [10]
- The General knew him well, and looked at him half sadly, half sternly. [11]
- She signed to him to take a seat by her side, but he stood up in front of her, saying sadly and despondently. [10]
- This memory carried him sadly and sweetly back to those painful feelings of which he had not thought lately, but which still found place in his soul. [2]
- She looked at him gravely, sadly, and then said: "I will take your arm, if you please. [11]
- He gazed at her sadly and beseechingly, and then fixed his eyes on the ground. [10]
- The portrait of her husband's first wife hung above the weapons and sadly needed dusting, for until now Maria had always shrunk from touching it. [10]
- She only shook her head sadly, as if to say: "You understand. [11]
- Now she shook her head at him sadly, now talked in broken sentences to herself, now bustled about silently, a tyrant to the other servants sent down from the Court. [11]
- So she fixed her eyes mutely and sadly upon her silver plate; but even her silence irritated the Emperor, and he was about to give fresh expression to his ill-humour, when the doors of the chapel opposite to him opened, and the surprise began. [10]
- She shook her head sadly, but I continued: "I have more to say. [9]
- She shook her head sadly, and said: 'Edward is not for the Church, but you, my lad. [11]
- She shook her head sadly at him, and stilling the proud throbbing of her heart, she said: "But thee played so well, Davy! [11]
- Then his curly head fell, and he said sadly, but decisively: "I will stay here and starve. [10]
- He was "better," he whispered, but sadly and faintly. [6]
- At the door he turned as if to say something, but he only looked steadily, sadly at her, and then was gone. [11]
- Then, recollecting himself, he shook his head sadly and said: "We Spartans have to learn other arts than reading and writing; if thou canst, read the what Pythia says. [10]
- On being told, he said, half sadly, "Oh, I can't see him, I can't see him; I was in hopes he had gone away. [5]
- He found Joe Harper studying a Testament, and turned sadly away from the depressing spectacle. [5]
- Only yesterday she had seemed to Wolf Hartschwert peerlessly beautiful, but the few hours which had elapsed between the visit of the physician and the major-domo had sadly changed her. [10]
- Orion stood alone gazing sadly after her. [10]
- Now, as she gazed, she smiled sadly to herself, with drooping eyelids looking out from beneath strong brows. [11]
- My dear old friend was sadly gone when he wrote it, I fear. [9]
- The captain, who, for the sake of fighting the infidels, had so sadly neglected his property that his own house in the Kramgasse fell into the hands of his creditors, had rented the second story in the cantor house. [10]
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