Word: distraughtly
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Senhor Mello Franco, distraught, took emotional leave of each of his Council colleagues, quit the scene...
...Janeiro Opera House. A new conductor had the baton. He showed nervousness; the great house stirred uneasily. He bungled a pianissimo passage, he brought in his strings raggedly; a sinister sibilant flew round the galleries. "Hiss-sss-sss" went the fine senhorinas, "sss-sss-sss" went the fierce senhores. Distraught, unmanned, hearing a crooked death in every venomous 'sss, that new conductor broke his baton over his knee, fled weeping from the house. From his lowly place among the cellos rose up then a young Italian, scuttled to the dais, raised his bow for silence. He did not look...
...labor with the Classics that we have? The great archaeological conquests of the last fifty years, when used with caution, permit us to re-create more vividly than our forerunners the environment in which the masterpieces of letters were produced and assist us in the solution of certain distraught questions in the history of literature. Both the investigation of the papyri and the application of archaeology to literature have the same fascination and call into play the same faculties of the pioneer as experimentation in a new problem of biological or medical science. The study of the interdependence...