Ah, of course, how distressingly inaccurate of me.
The strange junior who had chosen Robbie's name from the class list and undertaken to escort her to the party found awaiting her a rumpled young ghost with raiment that sagged and bagged quite distressingly in unexpected places.
The place is charming; not to its inhabitants perhaps, but to us from a land where everything is distressingly new.
The windows lacked curtains, the girls had only one fork, and their cupboard was so distressingly empty that it rivaled Mother Hubbard's.
But now they saw that her cupboard was very scantily filled, that her clothing was very much patched and mended, her shoes distressingly worn out, and that even her dish-towels were neatly darned.
In spite of all the girls' plans, however, by the end of the week the cottage larder was still distressingly empty.
One tiny waxen hand held a broken lily, and the other was vainly pressed upon the lids of the rabbit's eyes, trying to close lovingly the pink orbs that now stared so distressingly through glazing film.
You look strangely worn and ill; and your eyes aredistressingly elfish and shadowy.
It was found to bedistressingly meagre: what a multitude of highly interesting reflections might have been arranged under the heading: 'The First Prince of Wales visiting the Pope!
The day was distressingly hot, but we had several light showers during the afternoon.
A strong wind blew from the southward, which made the night air distressingly cold; it seemed as if the wind blew through our bodies.
It was indeed distressingly hot: with open mouths we tried to catch occasional puffs of a cooler air; our lips and tongue got parched, our voice became hoarse, and our speech unintelligible.
So far the results have been distressinglyuniform and hopelessly negative.
Moreover, the alarming garment was a distressingly tight fit.
During the day she had seemed stiff; but now, unfortunately, she proved most distressingly limber.
The road out of Dublin is distressingly rough as compared with English highways, though it improves before we reach Naas.
Even the cathedral has a distressingly new appearance, due to the recent restoration, and a public park occupies the site of the vanished castle.
Distressingly close is the resemblance of these latter to those creatures one may find loitering about the stage-door toward the termination of a musical comedy.
He was still distinctly unsettled, and most distressingly on the alert.
He became distressingly weak and inert, he ceased to care for food, and presently he began ta talk to himself with a complete disregard of her presence.
There came Remington's startling elopement with Isabel Rivers, the writer, which took two brilliant and inspiring contemporaries suddenly and distressingly out of Trafford's world.
To her the gaiety of these two, Colonel De Craye and Clara Middleton, wasdistressingly musical: they harmonized painfully.
The third was distressingly branded with the slum and gutter signs of the Ahasuerus race.
All the course detail, all the unlovely foundations, of the business of pleasure were rather distressingly obvious to his sight.
Katherine perceived that his beauty had begun to return to him, though his face was distressingly worn and emaciated, and the long, purplish line of that unexplained scar still disfigured his cheek.
Indeed, our feet had become dreadfully inflamed, and large blisters had formed on the sides of them, which made the labor of walking exceedingly and distressingly difficult.
Sad as was our decision in this instance, yet it was distressingly true that, if we had tarried by the way or sat down, we never should have risen again.
Not that I or any of my readers would think of indulging in any such distressingly vulgar exercise as the last named.
Dodd head, than which nothing, I think, could be more distressingly ugly.
A waxed floor, if properly taken care of, which is not difficult, wears extremely well and does not have the distressingly shabby appearance of a partly worn shellaced floor.
No escaped prisoner had ever yet succeeded in retaining his liberty for more than a few days, and where so many gentlemen of experience had tried and failed it seemed distressingly unlikely that I should be more fortunate.
They early perceived the change, and became distressinglyfond of him.
If Mrs. Fisher were not so peevish and Mrs. Dodd so distressingly particular, we could get along better in the kitchen; the native girls would do better, and improve.
I am distressingly weak, and I am unable to walk a hundred steps from my home without sitting down several times to rest.
I am distressingly ill, and cough hard enough to rend rocks apart, yet I am going Monday evening to hear Mademoiselle Rachel recite from Phedre before five or six great men.
I thought to detect in it that grotesque exaggeration with which the Americans so distressingly embellish their humour.
Indeed, in the class to which he was born one well knows that a mental giant would be quite as distressinglybizarre as any other freak.
At first the path was unadventurous enough, thoughdistressingly rough.
For the accommodation in Japanese inns is of a distressinglycommunistic character at best, and although at present there were few patients in the place, the germs were presumably still there on the lookout for a victim.
Mr. Coleman was very pompous, and so distressingly polite, that everything like sociability was out of the question.
Clerk Janaway was inclined to take a distressingly opportunist and matter-of-fact view of the question.
She betook herself to the room that had once been Mr Sharnall's, but was now distressingly empty and forlorn, and there finding writing materials, sat down to compose an answer to Westray's letter.
