When it came to the actual farewell, the tears sprang to his eyes, and he said affectingly: "This is good-bye; we shall never meet again."
"Haydn"
J. Cuthbert Hadden
The eyebrows made an affectingly faint try at a gesture of gratitude.
"Alias The Lone Wolf"
Louis Joseph Vance
Motionless in his chair as a bust, breathing so gently as scarcely to seem certainly alive, he presented the image of repose midway between life and death, like the repose of sculpture; and to one who knew his history a repose affectingly contrasting with the calamities and internal storms of his life.
"Biographical Essays"
Thomas de Quincey