She was gazing wistfully out over the sea of marsh and swamp, as though longing to bridge the distance that still separated us from the city, where he lay battling with that insidious enemy.
Pauline glanced wistfully over to Kitty's corner, and I could not help looking thither myself.
I quoted, smiling sadly enough; and Susan's smile wistfullyechoed mine, even while she raised a warning finger at me.
One evening I found her by the window, gazing out wistfully where the wind was tossing the rain, which ceased now and then in strange intermittent gusts, still wild of the tempest.
One looks at themwistfully and wonders at the secret of their success.
Seeing Mrs. Wharton look wistfully at him, he continued, "My advice is that you have your daughter sleep with you, after hearing your story.
At the turn of the road he stopped and looked back as wistfully as ever Letty had done along the shadowy road, and as he looked it seemed as if he saw a younger self setting off with courage, hope, and energy upon the journey, which alas!
Sister Hope held her peace, and looked wistfully through the mist at her promised home.
And yet"--She paused there, looking wistfully into his face, now all aglow with the hope and faith that are so blissful and so brief.
But Nature was stronger than duty or love, and as the boy ripened into the man he looked wistfully beyond the narrow present into the great future, which allures such as he with vague, sweet prophecies, hard to be resisted.
Me, too," said Jean, wistfully regarding the bebe waist of the gown which Doucet had just sent her.
When they were seated in the car again, she lookedwistfully out at the heaps of ruins.
Whilst dreading the creak of one footfall, she listenedwistfully for another.
As the chant pealed louder yet, the chief victim was wrapped in ecstasy, shared as it seemed by his faithful helpmeet, for with bright eyes fixed on him she forgot her children's suffering, wistfully awaiting their rebirth.
The dreary chatelaine was sitting at an upper casement of the castle, wistfully gazing into the night.
The eldest flew off, mounted upon his wonderful air-steed, amid the gaping of the astonished villagers, and his two brothers looked after him wistfully until he disappeared far away behind the clouds.
Go home," was her prompt reply, wistfully and not without anxiety.
They approached rapidly to the place where the fugitives had gone over, when the dog made a dead halt, and looked wistfully across.
He said this hurriedly, in a tone of deep anxiety and apprehension, looking wistfully around and over the dark hills, fearful, apparently, that others were listening.
They looked wistfully down towards the west, where the moon hung over the ocean's brim, a red ensanguined crescent, as if about to dip her golden bowl into the raging deep, or mayhap to launch her glittering bark on that perilous tide.
He looked wistfully at his friend; but there was no outward manifestation that could elucidate the inward bent of his thoughts.
Sally asked, wistfully desiring reassurance, for it was still impossible for her to picture life independent of state charity.
As she piled the sliced apples thickly into the crimped pie crust, she thought wistfully of Mrs. Carson, who was kind to her although she was a hard taskmistress.
While she was preparing for the street she observed Mildred's eyes resting wistfully on an upright piano that formed part of the beautiful furniture of her private sanctum.
In this predicament I looked out wistfully across the whitened landscape for signs of an inn or habitation of some description where I might "put up" for the night, and by good fortune (or was it bad?
Even as he uttered the words, the dogs halted and came towards us, looking wistfully into St. Aubyn's face, as though they fain would speak to him.
Half laughing, but with eyes that were all too ready for something else, she turned again to Hugh, when his brother had left the room, and looked wistfully in his face, stroking back the hair from his temples with a caressing hand.
Then she came back and stood before her husband, seeking wistfully to do something more for his comfort before leaving him, as she never forgot to try to do.
Miss Judy thought wistfully that she would know why John seemed still so sad and lonely if she could only see his wife.
But tiring soon of the little drama of the silver poplar, as we always tire of the happiness of others, the girl's eyes wandered wistfully through the fragrant loneliness to the wooded hills which gently folded the drowsy village.
They had been forbidden to touch the cherries, which were to be exchanged for shoes at the store, and they only glanced wistfully up at the reddening branches now and then, as they went on with their harmless game of mumble-peg.
Both were silent awhile, Nenetzin with her face hidden, and Tula looking wistfully up at the parrot swinging lazily in the perch.
Already from the mountains they have looked wistfully down on our valley of gardens, upon Tenochtitlan.
She looked long and wistfully at the house-door, but seeing that she could not open it, she went back to her room.
Loitering across the pavement he stood upon the curbing, and looked wistfully up and down the street.
He looked up wistfully into the smiling face and into the narrowed eyes that somehow frightened him.
He had glanced back wistfully at the big white house, hoping in the absence of the boy's father and mother to attract the attention of old Aunt Cindy the cook to the fact that Tommy was running away.
In the presence of heathenism, of dissolute cities, and of semi-pagan peasantries, she is ever looking wistfullyto some costly far-off supply.
His last glimpse of a familiar face was of Carr standing bareheaded, looking wistfullyafter the gliding coaches.
Another bridge burned," he said wistfullyto himself.
Day after day, night after night he would come upon her sitting solitary on one of the settees in the gaming-rooms, like a forgotten fan or flower, or wandering wistfully from table to table, idly watching the revolving wheels.
She sat in the garden expecting him, and stared wistfully at the old grey house, a curious fear in her eyes.
He paused, pen in hand, and looked wistfully at the mellow eastern sky, lost in thought.
The soft night air came in, and crept wistfullyabout the room, moving the curtains.
Blanche looked wistfully round, in the hope of finding some pleasant distraction, some trace of the mountain-land which she could not forget that she had actually reached at last, though certainly her present surroundings did not suggest it.
She waited for some reply, but none came, only the soft eyes looked upwistfully into her face for a moment, and the little girl went quietly on with her work again.
She ran to the edge of the wood, and climbing on the lichen-spotted dyke, she gazed wistfully along the winding road, where the shining carriage was rolling swiftly along.
How often she had glanced wistfully into the little garden with its sweet-scented flowers--the nicest she ever saw in her life, and how she had longed to speak to the old stooping woman moving about among them.
Some hot tears stole down her cheeks, and with quivering lip and clasped hands she gazed wistfully into her father's face as she said-- "O papa!
Blanche watched wistfully for an opportunity of a quiet talk with her papa; she had so many things that she wanted to say to him.
Morag often glanced wistfully towards it, when she went with her father to make their purchases at the merchant's shop, but then it was always closed and silent.
Cecil not care for Cyril's man, mummie," the child's eyes looked wistfully at Denise.
Sir Cyril's first view of him was with Esme stooping over the cot, looking wistfully down at the tiny face.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wistfully" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
