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- not comparableIn a commanding fashion.
“I ordered for the table,” she says, commandingly.
2007 June 20, Katharine Q. Seelye, “Former First Couple mimics TV's former First Couple”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC3 more examples
And yet, somehow, did Ahab—in his own proper self, as daily, hourly, and every instant, commandingly revealed to his subordinates,—Ahab seemed an independent lord […]
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLCShe could see it all so clearly, so commandingly, when she looked: it was when she took her brush in hand that the whole thing changed.
1927 May, Virginia Woolf, chapter 4, in To the Lighthouse (Uniform Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf), new edition, London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, […], published 1930, →OCLC, part I (The Window), page 34“Delightful idea,” said Lady Partridge. […] / “It is, I believe, an irresistible one,” said Lipscomb, laying his left hand commandingly on the table.
2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 5, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN
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