But, added he, take off the restraints under which they labour, and you will not have reason to complain of the plaintiveness of their notes.
Sinking beneath this weight of sympathetic sorrow, they became a prey to melancholy: hence the plaintiveness of their music: for the ideas that arise in the mind are always congenial to, and receive a mixture from the influencing passion.
They are not so recently out of the woods, and their strains have not that elusiveness and plaintiveness that ours have.
Her voice had a strange piercing plaintiveness and wildness.
There is no touch of plaintiveness or melancholy in it; it is as expressive of health and good digestion as the crowing of the cock in the morning.
Littleton spoke with a tender plaintiveness which betrayed that in his secret soul he was less confident on this score than his words declared, or than he himself supposed.
Louise, her permanent plaintiveness enhanced, murmured that she had a bad headache and that Mademoiselle had kindly offered to take Victor, had said that she would enjoy taking him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plaintiveness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
