Sentence example with the word 'wistfulness'

wistfulness

Definition n. a sadly pensive longing

Last update: September 19, 2015


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"Mother," he said,--and his voice was generous even to wistfulness; "Mother, that cradle thing was stunning."   [Please select]

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Then she faced Allie, wonderingly, with all a woman's sympathy, and something else that Allie sensed as a sweet and poignant wistfulness.   [Please select]

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The little girl, into whose eyes some wistfulness had crept, also turned her head and looked at a tree.   [Please select]

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"I keep a sort of bachelor's hall out on Riverside Drive," explained he, with a shade of wistfulness.   [Please select]

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"But I mustn't wear you out," he said, a moment later, with an odd wistfulness.   [Please select]

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XXIII Dick had found it hard to leave Elizabeth, for she clung to him in her grief with childish wistfulness.   [Please select]

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This time Blood laughed, but there was still a lingering wistfulness in his eyes.   [Please select]

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The blond watched it with the wistfulness of one who sees the last sign of his own world fade out.   [Please select]

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The truth was that the color of them changed with her emotions, but the wistfulness of them remained ever the same.   [Please select]

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