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patiently

/ˈpeɪʃəntli/ adverb B2
  1. In a patient manner.
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This time Alice waited patiently until it chose to speak again.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 34 · B2
Alice thought to herself, “I don’t see how he can _ever_ finish, if he doesn’t begin.” But she waited patiently.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 72 · B2
Rachel to the wild rose bushes out of the fulness of her heart; but if she could have seen the child who was waiting patiently at the Bright River station at that very moment her pity would have been still deeper and more profound.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 10 · C1
Down that ipecac went, not only once, but many times during the long, anxious night when the two little girls worked patiently over the suffering Minnie May, and Young Mary Joe, honestly anxious to do all she could, kept up a roaring fire and heated more water than would have been needed for a hospital of croupy babies.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 138 · C1

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