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The wife looked at the yellow brood drawing close to their mother, and her eyes grew wistful. [11]

More example sentences with the word wistful in them

Myra was too young not to look wistful at my news, but the others pretended indifference, seeking to lessen my triumph. [9]
They were shadowing with the old wistful light, hut they were as clear as the limpid water of the spring. [13]
The group stood wistful, fearful that their boldness had displeased, expectant of reprimand. [9]
A new and wistful feeling of loneliness was upon her. [9]
He lifted it when he heard that soft friendly voice, and there was a wistful something in his face which made one think that there had been music in it for him and that he would like to hear it again. [5]
But now it was different: after patting him a little I went to the library--he remained behind; when I went upstairs he did not follow me, save with his wistful eyes. [5]
At his shoulder was a face, wistful, worn, yet with a kind of happiness too; and the eyes had depths which any man might be glad to drown his heart in. [11]
As Rosalie ran towards the crowd she turned a wistful glance to the tailor-shop. [11]
And then, turning towards him with wistful, pleading eyes: "Do you know, I sometimes wish I had never seen you. [4]
Furthermore, Bess reverted to a wistful sadness that he had not observed in her since her recovery. [13]
I fancied that there was at times something pathetic in her wistful desire for our affection and esteem. [4]
With the first suspicion of dawn, every pilgrim took off his clothes and waded into the dark torrent, singing: "On Jordan's stormy banks I stand, And cast a wistful eye To Canaan's fair and happy land, Where my possessions lie. [5]
Bess's eyes were still fixed upon him with all her soul bright in that wistful light. [13]
But there was something in her face that haunted him--a wistful, appealing delicacy, which yet was associated with an instant readiness of intellect, with a perspicuous judgment and a gift of organization. [11]
The chevalier stopped short with pleased yet wistful surprise. [11]
Under their wistful shadow he softened, and in the softening felt himself grow a sadder, a wiser, and a better man. [13]
The innate necessity of loving remained, and as time went on had grown more wistful and insistent. [9]
Do you know, Mrs. Crozier," she added, with her wistful eyes vainly trying to be merely mischievous, "he once charged me five dollars for torturing me like a Red Indian. [11]
The bewildered, wistful look which had replaced the ordinarily benign and cheerful expression haunted Hodder long after the lawyer had gone. [9]
He could not look into her face, meet her steady, unabashed, yet wistful eyes, and think of her as the woman she had confessed herself. [13]
She did not know that his look was the wistful look backward, with no look forward; and that alone. [11]
The General surprised his visitor by recognizing private after private in the cots, and he always had a brief word of cheer to brighten their faces, to make them follow him with wistful eyes as he passed beyond them. [9]
He sat at his table, which was covered with open law-books and papers, but his eyes were on the distant mountain, and every scent-laden breeze wafted in at his open window seemed the bearer of a tremulous, wistful, yet imperious message--"Come! [9]
Pollux now used his fingers and modelling tools more calmly; his gaze was less wistful and he began to talk again. [10]
Occasionally I surprised him gazing at me with a certain wistful look that comes back to me as I write. [9]
Hovering near were gloomy, wistful crowds of people, who drew close to the mystery of the House of Death, as though the soul of a Dakoon were of more moment than those of the thousand men who had fallen that day. [11]
Only when he found her did she rise up with a wistful look and a faint smile. [4]
What he saw distinctly was Margaret's face, trustful and wistful, looking up into his as she bade him goodby. [4]
Then the flashing changed to a long, thoughtful look, in which there was a wistful, unconscious searching of his face, a look that trembled on the verge of hope and trust. [13]
The coarse army bread is drawn eagerly from the knapsacks of the blue, smoke quivers above a hundred fires, and the smell of frying bacon brings a wistful look into the gaunt faces. [9]
Suddenly he looked at me, standing wistful at his side. [9]
The voice had a wistful tremulousness, and might almost have been the echo of the leaves stirring in the night air. [9]
Her voice was a mezzo-soprano of rare bracing quality, and she had enough natural sensibility to give the antique refinement of the words a wistful charm, particularly apparent in these verses: "Ah, cruel Prince, my heart you break, In killing thus my snow-white drake. [11]

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