I'm dretful glad to see you," and Penelope, breezy and keen as a March wind, came bustling into the room.
Above black widely margined with grayish brown; below ochraceous-buff; a few black spots.
I'd hearn that the man who wuz goin' to preach wuz a dretful smart man, a Evangelist and Temperance Lecturer.
He sung the tune he had always been used to singin' hims in, he is dretful sot on it, and don't like to change.
Actin' as if it had sunthin' dretful pressin' and important to tell it, and mebby it had.
He lives alone with an old housekeeper who is dretful slack and don't have any faculty, and he don't have things for his comfort, though he don't complain.
But to resoom backward, I had a dretful good visit with Faith and enjoyed her bein' with us the best that ever wuz.
And at last a dretful conviction rousted up in me.
And his crops turned out dretful well, and he jest laid up money by the handfuls as you may say.
Dretful fresh and restful and comfortable that hot muggy day.
It made him dretful huffy, and he sez, "I can't help it if you do have a hand like a gorilla's.
And sometimes he would fairly harrow us to the very bone, with his dretful imaginins and fears that wimmen would be allowed to overdo herself, and ruin her health, and strain her mind, by bein' permitted to set!
And she wuz dretful kinder cunnin' and cute, Jenette wuz.
She would always begin this remark dretful kinder loud and hysterical, and then would dwindle down kinder low at the end on't, and bustin' out into tears somewhere through it from first to last.
Trueman's wife wuzdretful disagreeable, and would argue us down, every separate thing we tried to do or say.
She did titter right out in protracted meetin', Sister Henn don't deny it, and she felt dretfulbad about it, and so did I.
He treats his mother dretful pretty, from day to day.
There was a great root of it round by the back-door here; 'twas dretful sweet, and she had to set it over, Miss Bute said.
Besides, she was dretful pernickety about folks comin' into the yard.
And I was truly tired enough to lay down, for I had worked dretful hard that day--almost beyond my strength.
He acted dretful strange, too; he seemed to be a walkin' off sideways.
Down from the lovely spot where The Little Maid wuz, down, down, into the dretful places that Barzelia had told me about.
But Chicago is dretful worrysome and active, jest like all children who have growed fast, and kinder outgrowed their clothes and family goverment.
For she has always felt dretful proud of their farm, and the size of it; she has always said that it come hard on Elam to do all the work himself on such a big farm.
Wall, it wuz all dretful interestin' to me, though Skairfulness wuz present with us, and goose pimples wuz abroad.
The horses have been hard bitted; their high huffs and heads drawed dretful hard at the bit held in her weak grasp, and she has been kicked a good deal by their sharp huffs.
It cut the Deacon up dretful to be accused of drinkin' and lyin'.
And dretful visions, as I said it, rolled through my mind of the awful day it would be for Jonesville, if Josiah Allen should carry home any such wild idees, and git the other old Jonesvillians stirred up in it.
And she gin me to understand that sence Aronette's dretful death in New York she had gradually changed her mind about drinking.
He looked dretfulrelieved as he shook my hand and I passed on.
As I say, Miss Meechim read it and grew pale, the letter dropped in her lap and she trembled like a popple leaf, for it told of a dretful tragedy.
There wuz a young chap who wuz the picture of elegance when he come aboard, and dretful big feelin' I should judge from his looks and acts.
They wuz dressed well, but dretful bulged out and swollen lookin', and I sez to their ma one day: "Are your children dropsical?
But if it wuz a father watching and waiting in dretful hope and still more dretfulfear for the best beloved, I couldn't tell, for the crowd pressed forward and he disappeared almost before I saw him.
Dretful murder, to take the life of the one that loved it and wuz tryin' to save it.
Josiah wuzdretful took with this and vowed he'd train our old sick no further over a arbor.
And the houses looked dretful low and squatty, mebby it wuz on account of earthquakes they built 'em so.
Sez he, smilin' a dretful wapeish smile: "It is sickish tastin' stuff.
Ralph wuz dretful wild all the forepart of the night.
Wall, that night Josiah Allen wuz a-feelin' dretful neat, fer he had sold our sorell colt for a awful big price.
Miss Timson and Rosy seemed dretful glad to see me, but they wuz pale and wan, wanner fur than I expected to see 'em; but after I had been there a spell I see how it wuz.
And they both wuz dretful anxius about the mornin' bells which would ring when Ralph would mebby be sleepin'.
You know Martin will be dretful put out," protested Eliza at the same instant.
But time run along, four struck, then five and then six, and I wuz gittin' dretful worried about her when she come in tired enough.
It had rained the night before and that made it dretful muddy, Josiah acted real grouty about it and sot there mutterin' and complainin' about the mud till I got kinder wore out and sez: "For mercy sake!
China had a dretful interestin' exhibit, ancient manuscripts, books published thousands of years before our kind of type wuz invented.
I feel dubersome about it, Rosy, dretful dubersome.
But then, as Mrs. Buttles said, "Ben was a dretful ventur'some creetur.
How dretful it would have been if I had gone into any other room and mebbe have been shot or have scared some young and unprotected female into fits.
You may think men folks is all different, but there's a dretful sameness to 'em after they've been through a marriage ceremony.
The pain-killer bottle an' the nerve tonic bottle is both dretful heavy, in spite of bein' only half full.
Steve Yerden is rough on his horses, dretful rough.
I do think it sounds so much more respectful to call 'em so rather than "old maid" (but I had to tutor Josiah dretful sharp before I could get him into it).
She said, "she wasdretful sorry for me," and I believed her.
I told her that things would run along smooth and agreeable for days and days, but that when things got to happenin', they would happen right along for weeks at a time, sometimes, dretful curius.
And my steel-yards wuz out of gear any way, so they wouldn't weigh but five pounds at a time, and he wuz dretful perticuler to have 'em just right by the notch.
She is a good, willin' creeter, but she is apt to get things wrong, dretful apt.
My pardner, though, as he often says, is not a epicack, still he duz enjoy good vittles dretful well and appreciates 'em.
They'd make a dretful time on't," said Nabby impressively.
Jest set right up and eat 'em, and don't ever be sodretful naughty again, or I don't know what will become of you.
Josiah wuz dretful took with it and he told me in confidence that he laid out when he got home to buy a trumpet and blow out jest them strains every time he went into Jonesville or out of it.
Her sleeves wuz so tight that they kep' her hands lookin' a kinder bloated and swelled all the time, and must have been dretful painful.
Dretful curius, and sort a heart breakin' to think on't -- haint it?
For they are dretful good for varius things that afflict the human body.
And I brung him up some delicate warm toast and some fragrant tea, and his smile on me wuz dretful good-natured, almost warm.
But howsumever Ardelia went there, and my companion and me arrove at the abode where we wuz to abide, with no eppisode only the triflin' one of the driver bein' dretful mistook as to the price he asked to take us there.
He brightened all up at this, he felt dretful well to think I felt with him, and my feelin's wuz all rousted up to think of the sufferin's he had went through, so we felt real well towards each other.
Wall, Ardelia wuz dretful pensive, and soft actin' that night, she seemed real tickled to see us, and to get where we wuz.
Wall," he said, "this man had a dretful sick wife.
The Creation Searchin' Society wuz dretful exercised about it.
They lookeddretful dejected and onhappy as they come to this conclusion, my pardner looked as if he wuz most ready to bust out cryin'.
Why, it seemed curiouser than any Northern lights I ever see in my life, and they stream up dretful curious sometimes.
He wuz a dretful good man to her, but he wuz kinder poor and they had hard times to git along.
She is young and tuff, and she papered it real good, though it wuz dretful hard on her arm sockets and back.
And their bein' so dretful humbly wuz another drawback to 'em, though that too wuz perfectly lawful, as everybody knows.
I thought he wuz actin' dretful liberal, but I knew they had strange ways in Washington anyway.
His mother had hearn of a investment there that promised to pay dretful well, so she had took a lot of stock in it, and it had riz right up powerful.
Rosy's mother died when she wuz a babe, and Ralph, who had always been dretful religius, felt it to be his duty to go and preach to the savages.
It happened dretful curius, but jest at this time Casper Keeler had had to go to New York on business.
And we felt dretful cast down about it, for we all felt as if the work must stop till Sister Bobbet could be present and attend to it.
He wuz in dretful good spirits, though he looked kinder peaked.
It was dretfulpretty talk, and middlin' affectin'.
She wuz the Methodist minister's wive's cousin, and the minister's wife told me she wuz dretful anxious to get my opinion on the lecture.
Mother, I be dretful sorry ter take yew away from your posies," muttered Abraham as he arose with his green sprig in his hand.
I dunno ez it's so much fer folks ter say I look like Abe Lincoln, after all; he was dretful humbly.
Slander is a dretful long-legged critter," amended Miss Abigail, smiling and sighing in the same breath.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dretful" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
