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Lexicographical Neighbors of Stutteringly
Literary usage of Stutteringly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of George Meredith by George Meredith (1910)
"I suppose she 'll never get over it. But there it is: and we must feed her with
the spoon.' Colonel Halkett argued stutteringly with ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1845)
"stutteringly whispered the new-comer, while the powerful smell of whisky-punch,
which began to pervade the apartment, bore far less testimony to his piety ..."
3. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"Stutteringly, (stui'-ter-ing-le) J , STY, (sti) HJ A cabin to keep hogs in; any
place of bestial debauchery. STYGIAN,'(stid'-je-an) «. ..."
4. Proceedings of the ... Annual Congress of Correction of the American by American Correctional Association (1900)
"A friend of mine, a good criminal lawyer, when asked how he would reform criminals,
stutteringly replied, "Reform 'em? I'd chlo-reform 'em. ..."
5. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"Stutteringly (stut'6r-ing-li), adv. In a stuttering manner; with stammering.
Stuttering (stut'èr-ing), n. ..."
6. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1885)
"... exclaimed stutteringly, getting suddenly up from his chair and beginning to
move aimlessly up and down the room in his excitement. ..."
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