hoarily

Waiting, waiting — the bush seemed to be hoarily waiting.

Kangaroo 2004

It is good that every person in the family should take some part in its manufacture, even if only to stir it; and it should be brought to table hoarily sprinkled with powdered sugar, with a fine piece of berried holly stuck in it, and surrounded on all sides by blazing spirits.

A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide John Ashton

Mr. Pemberton, senior, most hoarily awful of all the big chiefs, had indigestion or a poor balance-sheet.

The Job An American Novel Sinclair Lewis 1918

At the sight of its hoarily sprinkled blackness he always felt as if he were standing on the verge of some frightful revelation; a vague reminiscence, no doubt, from the scene of his life's tragedy, all distinct memory of which had been blurred away by his illness.

Strangers at Lisconnel Jane Barlow 1887