pantingly

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1. While, or as if, panting; eagerly, breathlessly.

   This same man, […] pantingly threatened me with permanent disfiguring mayhem, if ever again I should introduce his name into print, […]

   1870–1871 (date written), Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “”, in Roughing It, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company [et al.], published 1872, →OCLC, page 581

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   He spies on the Hitler household by inserting a pantingly nosy narrator who poses as a Nazi Intelligence officer but claims to have been sent by the Devil.

   2007 January 19, Janet Maslin, “Putting Hitler on the Couch, and Finding Bees”, in New York Times