He also was most awfully kind and showed us all over his place.We went first into his two cellars, where the wounded are taken to be dressed, instead of above, where they might be shelled.…Cited from Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915, by Anonymous
The fact that people are going to stare at him, and follow him around, and seem afraid of him, can be explained only on the hypothesis that they will somehow have been prepared for his ghostly visitation.They will have been awfully waiting to see whether he really would come.…
It was awfully good of you to put up with me so long.And, I say, you won't mind our being friends still, will you now?…Cited from Punch, Vol. 102, January 16, 1892, Ed. by Francis Burnand
I couldn't make out what he said, but I fancied he must be asking for a tip, so I gave him a copper.That seemed to make him awfully wild, and he wanted to know my name.I had to tell him, and he wrote it down; but as he didn't get my address, I hope there won't be a fuss about it.…Cited from Parkhurst Boys, by Talbot Baines Reed
You would not be afraid of her, had you ever known what it was to turn to her in trouble or difficulty.She helped me through an awfully hard time, six months before I met you.She showed me the right thing to do, then stood by me while I did it.…Cited from The Upas Tree, by Florence L. Barclay
Sinatra, Jr. might have had an easier time establishing himself had he gone into real estate.But his show made me awfully glad he decided music was his calling.There aren't too many singers around with Sinatra's depth of experience in big band music, or his knowledge of the classic American songbook.…
You'll find him awfully nice and polite, but, my, he can be cutting when he gets irritated!I've known him to do some awfully mean things in a business way.I wouldn't want to get him down on me.…Cited from North of Fifty-Three, by Bertrand W. Sinclair
Miss Jenny Ann and the girls promised to wait on the dock for me until I brought you back.I am afraid they will think I have been gone an awfully long time.…Cited from Madge Morton's Secret, by Amy D. V. Chalmers
But Josiah havin' felt so animated and tickled about the exertion, it worked him up awfully when, jest after we had got well out onto the lake, the wind took his hat off and blew it away out onto the lake.He had made up his mind to look so pretty that day that it worked him up awfully.And then the sun beat down onto him; and if he had had any hair onto his head it would have seemed more shady.…Cited from Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor, Vol. 1, ed. by Masson
I have been wounded so awfully that I shall never be able to support you.Cited from Moody's Anecdotes And Illustrations, by Dwight L. Moody
When he got up from his fall, he looked and he saw him quite half a mile away.He must have gone awfully fast, should not you think so?…Cited from A Tale of a Lonely Parish, by F. Marion Crawford
I expect he's had a row with the Foreign Office.They were years in Rome, and of course we knew them awfully well.…Cited from Lady Connie, by Mrs. Humphry Ward
We've found out that they are awfully interested even without seeing the house.Do you think it would be a good scheme to put into the rooms the things we have ready and to fasten on the door a notice saying 'THIS ROOM NEEDS' and under that a list of what is lacking?…Cited from Ethel Morton at Rose House, by Mabell S. C. Smith
I say, you know, it's really most awfully kind of him!Cited from A Popular Schoolgirl, by Angela Brazil
He's awfully important and good to us all, and he knows everything.Cited from Joy in the Morning, by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
He was always good to me -- awfully good to me and to the boy.We lived in a horrible out-of-the-way place -- up in the mountains near Naples.…Cited from Helena, by Mrs. Humprey Ward
It's most awfully good of you to put up with my calling.Cited from Back to Methuselah, by George Bernard Shaw
And oh, she is coming here to look for us -- she will be awfully cross!Cited from Naughty Miss Bunny, by Clara Mulholland
I should like to be a verger, and spend my life in an abbey.I think I could be awfully good if I lived here always.It makes one feel so small and insignificant, that one wouldn't dare to be selfish, and think one's own happiness so important.…Cited from More About Peggy, by Mrs G. de Horne Vaizey
Wouldn't it be awful if they should happen to drink some of the coal-oil and make the butter we send down to the city taste wrong and spoil the Sweetbriar reputation?I like money though, most awfully, and I want some right now.…Cited from Rose of Old Harpeth, by Maria Thompson Daviess