Somewhat plaintively she said: "But please, your Grace.
It is doubtful if he ever felt any self-reproach for his carelessness, till Bertie Grenvil looked up plaintively in his face, as the two were wending their way to the smoking-room.
With a deep sigh and nodding his head plaintively he returned to his book, swaying back and forth.
She spoke plaintively of the responsibility of looking after her granddaughter, but Darrow divined that she enjoyed the flavour of the word more than she felt the weight of the fact.
An old cow strolled up the lane by the house and round the corner of the orchard, plaintively tinkling her bell.
The wind, by a sudden puff, lifted into the room a shower of white bloom petals from a sweet apple tree, letting them fall gracefully upon the patchwork carpet, the while a ploughman whistled plaintivelyin a distant field.
The Negro's love of home is an integral part of his nature, and is exemplified in the themes he plaintively crooned in camp on both sides of the ocean.
The sound of the smith's hammer falling upon the anvil sounded plaintively upon the calmness of the sleepy village.
By-and-by he found himself listening eagerly for the monotonous repetition of the prairie scavenger's dismal howl, and as the cries recurred they seemed to grow in power and become more plaintively horrible.
Still she plaintively calls her name, and still she wears the necklace about her pretty little neck.
She is always hoping for the storm to come, and plaintively pipes, "Plui-plui!
When they got to the door she plaintively said: 'Come in,' and he followed her to her room.
Liza plaintively asked whether anyone else had been, and sighed a little when her mother answered no.
And then, in the loneliness of the dark, on the heaving breast of the sea that he recognized as one more of the eternal enemies, he began to whimper and cry plaintivelylike a lost child.
Me savve," Lerumie, plaintively replied; and the episode was closed.
And when the last good-bye was said, and the door slowly closed and we walked away into the night, the bugle call of "Taps" plaintively sounding through the quiet streets found sad and mystic echo in our souls.
He went alone, after his wife had plaintively sighed her refusal to accompany him.
His eyes were shut tight, his face was dripping, and he was plaintively bleating over and over: "I'm poisoned!
The cows had gathered against the paddock fence and were lowing plaintively for the evening milking.
Both of them were far more relaxed when they dressed for dinner, though Tangerine meowed plaintively at Odeon and tried to climb his trouser leg.
She looked plaintively at Rachel, and her voice trembled.
It was a fowling-piece, which he used only, as his mother plaintively assured me, "to shoot little birds with.
Never, it seems to me, since man first lived and suffered, was his infinite longing for peace uttered more plaintively than in that line.
It is plaintively sad, tenderly pathetic in every phrase, a pale, delicate blossom of sentiment, dropped upon the grave of youth and first love.
She seemed to be under the impression that this was the result of design, and plaintively asked me what she had done to "William" and to Bismarck that they should knock over her chimney.
In vain he now plaintively complains that he has made Paris impregnable, that he cannot make sorties without field artillery, and that he is neither responsible for the capitulation of Metz, nor the rout the other day at Bourget.
The evening was as yet moonless, the stars alone twinkled in the heavens, and the gentle winds blew plaintively over the tall trees around the mansion.
The moon was sailing down westward and the cool breeze was waving the herbage to and fro, in which numerous mushi were plaintively singing.
But the pale blue eyes that were its soul shone plaintively beneath their shaggy, blonde eyebrows, and even an application of pomade almost hysterically lavish could not entirely conceal the curling gloom of the heavy, matted hair.
Thou shalt no longer remain a human being, thou shalt become a bird flying as high as to get near the sun, and there, seeing the beloved who cannot be thine, thou shalt cry plaintively for him whom thou hast won and yet lost.
At that moment Little Light was changed into the lark, which at the break of dawn, before the sun rises, flies up into the sky trying to get as near as possible to the sun, and there cries plaintively at the loss of her beloved.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plaintively" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
