despairing

"I have looked into his room and seen him writing," said Mrs. Drake despairingly.

I asked, despairingly, as we rumbled through bewildering labyrinths of dark and narrow streets.

"It's all I've got to say, and even you won't get a different word out of me," he said despairingly.

With a sharp cry Lora held him to her, despairingly, wildly, as though even at that moment he were to be snatched from her.