Adverb
In an afraid manner.
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Birdes with many a piteous pew, / Afraidly in the Aire they flew. So long as they had ſtrength to flée / Then ſwattered down into the ſea:[…]
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He came back gain very affrayedly, and out at the door, and show[ed] so mony as bidden in the hall what he had heard, wha assayit to pass to the chalmer, to know what was there;
When Scottishmen hes séene them sa / Affrayedly flee all their way[…]
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[…]; many honeſt men then followed, and made ſuch diligence, that they cauſed the French once to retire ſomewhat affrayedly.
Could these be men just returned from battle?—those gentle, half-timid individuals who already had forgotten their morning’s lust and now were afraidly polite?
“Eyes—”[…]Charlie scribed directions. “Teeth —[…].” Charlie wrote. “Entire face—This show signs of dilapidation, elliptickle contortion & curviture of the smile. This need to be removed, stretched over portait of Apollo Belvedere and baked 4 hrs. at even temperature.” He pause slowly. I listen to his silence. “Are that all?” I pronounce distinctually. “All except your complexion,” he denote. “That of course should be bleached to match your new hair & eyes. I should snuggest the Wawaw Treatment.” “How you do that?” I jar afraidly. “Merely by placing your head in a tub of hot pineapple jam and keeping him there until satisfied,” he pulmote.
Little rabbit hopping afraidly, if that’s fit to use outside the Poets Corner of the magazine, in the road ahead shys off fortunately, into the grass, and I breathe better.
Still Bill held the deposit slip in his hands half-afraidly, really wanting to hold the money, but the banker allayed those fears too.
“Open yo’ mout’, boy,” she said, “whe’ yo’ get dis pin?” “Miss Diggs giv’ it to me, mum,” murmured Alfie slowly, afraidly.
Following directions of IPPC, hundreds of country governments try afraidly to tackle pending environmental disaster, pledging lukewarmly to lower down planet global warming by country emission mitigation during the decades following.
He could see the fear crawling in his eyes too. Allen raised his arm and pointed at the chandelier. James looked up afraidly.