Wistful

Examples

• Tarzan shook his head, and an expression of wistful and pathetic longing sobered his laughing eyes. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Gerald's father had looked wistful, to break the heart: but not this last terrible look of cold, mute Matter. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The title gave him a sudden start, too; and he could not avoid casting a wistful glance round the room. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The next day however, he felt wistful and yearning. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Before quite leaving her he threw upon her face a wistful glance, as if he had misgivings on the generosity of forsaking her thus. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I ordered him to set me down, and lifting up one of my sashes, cast many a wistful melancholy look towards the sea. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• His eyes looked at me again with the painful expression of inquiry, so wistful, so vacant, so miserably helpless to see. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The sharpness in her eye turned to a wistful longing as she met Margaret's soft and friendly gaze. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• His dim watery eyes were fixed on my face with an expression of vacant and wistful inquiry very painful to see. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The old man clasped the skirt of his long coat with his disengaged hand, and directed a wistful look at Fledgeby. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It was Juliet herself; pale and trembling she stood, a lamp in her hand, on the threshold of the dungeon, looking at me with wistful countenance. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Frederick held her hand in his, and looked with wistful anxiety into her face, reading there more care and trouble than she would betray by words. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• You are so changed, I sometimes think-- there Amy stopped, with a half-timid, half-wistful look, more significant than her unfinished speech. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• I turned a wistful eye towards the old gentleman who had left me. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• If you rouse her or scold her, she gives you a look, half wistful, half reckless, which sends you away as queer and crazed as herself. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• If her wistful cast of physiognomy is not gone, no more is her careless smile. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Only, when she thinks I am not about to see her, her face grows very sad, and, oh, so wistful. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• I used to find it so,' answered Mr Boffin, with a wistful look. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He looked so wistful as he went away, hearing the frolic and evidently having none of his own. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.

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