"I'm like Cinderella dressed for the ball," she thought, "all except the glass slippers," and she glanced down distastefully at the thick, serviceable boots whose toes pointed out from under a line of gold embroidery.
"The Heather-Moon"
C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
Could we remain in the comfortable belief that we gave work, or must we be made to own distastefully that it had always been given to us?
"Roman Holidays and Others"
W. D. Howells
His breakfast, and the brandy-bottle that flanked the loaf, were now placed before Losely; and, as distastefully he forced himself to eat, his eye once more glanced towards, and this time rested on, the shabby man, in the sort of interest with which one knave out of elbows regards another.
"What Will He Do With It, Book 10."
Edward Bulwer-Lytton