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WISTFULLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a wistful manner
Example:
his sister would have looked beautiful in that dress, he thought wistfully, just like an angel
Classified under:
Pertainym:
wistful (showing pensive sadness)
Context examples:
Dora glanced wistfully at the clock, and hinted that she thought it was too fast.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Sitting on the deck several feet away and watching wistfully was White Fang.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Holding a hand of each, and watching the two young faces wistfully, Mrs. March said, in her serious yet cheery way...
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
With the dogs falling, Mercedes weeping and riding, Hal swearing innocuously, and Charles’s eyes wistfully watering, they staggered into John Thornton’s camp at the mouth of White River.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
The Lady Loring rode her palfrey at her lord's bridle-arm, for she would see him as far as the edge of the forest, and ever and anon she turned her hard-lined face up wistfully to him and ran a questioning eye over his apparel and appointments.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“You see,” said Mr. Dick, wistfully, “if I could exert myself, Mr. Traddles—if I could beat a drum—or blow anything!”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The latter regarded him wistfully, started away, then returned and whined softly.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
He just stood looking at her so wistfully, so tenderly, that she found her heart relenting in spite of herself.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I think, as Mrs. Micawber sat at the back of the coach, with the children, and I stood in the road looking wistfully at them, a mist cleared from her eyes, and she saw what a little creature I really was.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
She was not more than half a dozen feet away sitting in the snow and wistfully regarding him.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
