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Definition of Smolderingly
1. Adverb. With barely repressed anger. "`I can't wait,' she answered smolderingly"
Definition of Smolderingly
1. Adverb. With repressed anger or passion. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Smolderingly
Literary usage of Smolderingly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1910)
"But as she was on the brink, like a diver pausing before the plunge, her eyes
would alight on O'olo, smolderingly regarding her from afar, ..."
2. Rights, Remedies, and Practice, at Law, in Equity, and Under the Codes: A by John Davison Lawson (1890)
"A kindled a fire on his land, and attempted to extinguish it on the same day,
but the fire, continuing to burn smolderingly in the soil of a slough until ..."
3. The Law of Negligence by James Henry Deering (1886)
"... but the fire continuing to burn smolderingly in the soil of a slough until
two days later, broke out afresh and ran upon the plaintiff's land, ..."
4. Education and Living by Randolph Silliman Bourne (1917)
"... we should come to appreciate the superior wisdom of this educational system
against which our rational little wills so smolderingly rebelled ..."
5. Lead Smelting and Refining: With Some Notes on Lead Mining by Walter Renton Ingalls (1906)
"It burns smolderingly and frits together somewhat. The product (chiefly lead
sulphate) is then smelted in a shaft furnace, together with the gray slag from ..."
6. Lead Smelting and Refining: With Some Notes on Lead Mining by Walter Renton Ingalls (1906)
"It burns smolderingly and frits together somewhat. The product (chiefly lead
sulphate) is then smelted in a shaft furnace, together with the gray slag from ..."
7. Lead Smelting and Refining: With Some Notes on Lead Mining by Walter Renton Ingalls (1906)
"It burns smolderingly and frits together somewhat. The product (chiefly lead
sulphate) is then smelted in a shaft furnace, together with the gray slag from ..."
8. The Visioning: A Novel by Susan Glaspell (1911)
"... smolderingly: "No—I'm not that weak. If I can't live—I'll die. Other people
make a living! Other girls get along! Katie would. Katie could do it. ..."
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