She'd been working killingly hard before that, for a whole year after taking her house on Fifth Avenue and building her cottage at Newport, but it was buying the Prince which did the trick.
"Lady-Betty-Across-the-Water"
Lowell, Orson
But there were some laughs which he really enjoyed with the Yankee foreman of the works, who was a droll, after a common American pattern, and said things that were killingly funny, especially about women, of whom his opinions were sarcastic.
"April Hopes"
William Dean Howells Last Updated: February 27, 2009
Too killingly, dear, for anything!"
"Dorothy Dale at Glenwood School"
Margaret Penrose