afflightedly

Updated: May 2, 2025

The whistle sounded in fitful alarm, the sailors threw lifebelts overboard, the deck rumbled like a drum under the crowd's surging rush, steam hissed afflightedly, a woman vented an hysterical cry, and the captain bawled from the bridge the imperious command: "Avast heaving lifebelts! By now the fool will have got one! Damn you, calm the passengers!"

Maksim Gorky - Through Russia