Down sank the moon, her pale light dimming as she went, her faint illuminationwanly creeping across the disordered, wrack-strewn floor.
Through the rotted plank shutters, that hung drunkenly awry from rust-eaten hinges, long spears of sunlight wanly illuminated the wreck of all that had once been the lavish home of a billionaire.
The entrance was reached by a single stone step, above which hung an electric light just beginning to glowwanly in the early twilight.
And he smiled a trifle wanly as he slipped off the table.
She put her hand to her heart, in that gesture of grief which is so entirely natural when we feel the stab of destiny; and then she went wanly into the sitting-room, looking about her for some pretense of duty to solace her poor mind.
And even between the movements her heart was too full for speech or thought, and when she looked at the old man, she saw him smile wanly and nod his head as one who, like herself, was speechless with emotion.
She smiled wanly and went on with her artless story.
O fair and gracious knight, suffer me not to die for love of you,' cried Elaine, and looked most piteously and wanly upon him.
The scattered isles Uprose, black-looming o'er the tranquil deeps, Where the reflected heavens wanly showed A lingering gleam.
Dusk was falling on the town; some lights were twinkling wanly and bells rang in the cordage of the quays.
Sisily had smiled wanly at these "memory pictures" and said she would always be able to remember the address of her mother's old friend by their means.
Jaska read his thoughts, and smiled wanlyto herself, and Sarka wondered how, suffering as he knew she must be suffering, she could find the courage to smile.
Sarka looked at Jaska, noted how wanly she smiled.
But day returns, Light and the garish life, and we are brave, For Truth sinkswanly down into her grave.
She smiled a littlewanly at him, as she drew herself away, and, dropping into a chair, placed her elbows on the rickety table, cupping her chin in her hands.
The murk-modified morning sunshine of early June in London filtered wanly through the windows of their rooms at the Savoy.
My little girl will be here day after tomorrow morning," she said to the maid, smiling wanly with the happiness of it.
Dank and white with its vaporous vigil the listless lake kindled wanlyto the new day's breeze.
Behind his sunburn,--deeper than his tan, something sinister and uncanny lurked wanly like the pallor of a soul.
A little bit wanly this time she smiled her pluck up into the Senior Surgeon's questioning face.
Only the flame from the perfumed lamps flickered wanly in the draught.
But then he quietly laid down his spoon, sank rather limply back in his chair, and wanly met Humphrey's gaze.
Not more than a foot in width, it shone wanly with a pale, metallic bluish luster, as though, I thought, it had been recently polished.
But the shields were now wanly gleaming and the sky was the sky of night.
John smiledwanly as he drifted slowly into his next stanza.
She smiled wanly and he rushed on with breathless intensity: "I'm not going to let you die.
On Christmas Eve they smiled wanly at each other, like two comrades who have fought and bled together, and won.
The mother's brown eyes, very bright with unshed tears, left their perusal of the prayer book to dwell upon the white little face that was smiling rather wanly up at her.
And when at last the first pale glimmer of light showed wanly in the sky he began to think that sleep had overcome his companions.
She smiled, but so wanly that it was in his idea infinitely sadder than tears.
Wanly he looked at his mirthful pagans, the embodiment of joys.
In doing so he must have made some funny remark in her ear, for she smiled wanly as she said: "Grazie, Don Francesco.
Later, by a few moments, when Deforrest Young opened the door and stole in, she smiled wanly at him.
She smiled wanly at Sandy, and he grinned back at her.
Uncle Ezra smiled wanly at us, with the courage of the patient who is a sceptic about physicians.
Mrs. Edwards handed Slocum's letter across the table and waited, her face wanly eager.
The four French windows were uncurtained, and the inside shutters folded back, so that the silent clerks might have the benefit of every ray of daylight filtering wanly through Mercer's murky air.
He found his wife dressed, but fallen again on her bed, beside which her breakfast stood still untasted; her smile responded wanly to his brightness.
She wanly smiled, and shrank closer to Basil; while the other matron made nothing of seizing her husband violently by the arm and imploring him to stop it whenever they experienced a rougher jolt than usual.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wanly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
