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FIXEDLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a fixed manner
Example:
he stared at me fixedly
Classified under:
Pertainym:
fixed (fixed and unmoving)
Context examples:
Mina sat rigid, and the Professor stood staring at her fixedly; the rest of us hardly dared to breathe.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
There was something positively awful to me in this, and in the brightness of her eyes, as she said, looking fixedly at me: What is he doing?
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Because I disliked you too fixedly and thoroughly ever to lend a hand in lifting you to prosperity.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Looking fixedly at her, he commenced to make passes in front of her, from over the top of her head downward, with each hand in turn.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I remember a great wail and cry, and the women hanging about him, and we all standing in the room; I with a paper in my hand, which Ham had given me; Mr. Peggotty, with his vest torn open, his hair wild, his face and lips quite white, and blood trickling down his bosom (it had sprung from his mouth, I think), looking fixedly at me.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He looked at me fixedly, compressing his well-cut lips while he did so.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Van Helsing was looking at her fixedly as she spoke, and said, suddenly but quietly:—"But dear Madam Mina, are you not afraid; not for yourself, but for others from yourself, after what has happened?"
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
As she still stood looking fixedly at me, a twitching or throbbing, from which I could not dissociate the idea of pain, came into that cruel mark; and lifted up the corner of her lip as if with scorn, or with a pity that despised its object.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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