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comparative more anxiously, superlative most anxiously
In an anxious manner; with painful uncertainty; solicitously. quotations examples
He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance. […] But she said she must go back, and when they joined the crowd again […] she found her mother standing up before the seat on which she had sat all the evening searching anxiously for her with her eyes, and her father by her side.
1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter I, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919
'Even in summer, Grannie?' Heidi persisted anxiously.
1956 , Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 46