An involuntary note of wistfulness in the last words softened the look in Jake's eyes.
The risk, dear, seems to me to be quite considerable,” and the smile with which Rowell looked into the eyes of his fiancée had infinitely more of wistfulness and pathos in it than was good to see in one so young.
But there was a shade of wistfulness in his own which the wife’s keen gaze noted with apprehension, and with womanly persistence she pressed her point.
His simple, pale blue eyes had a wistfulness which made her feel towards him as she felt towards her doll when she happened to find it lying neglected on the floor.
His eye had the meek wistfulness of Holman Hunt's 'Scapegoat.
She looked up with her bright, laughing eyes with a certain wistfulness in them.
There was such deep wistfulness in those words of his that she bent her head and would not look into his face.
It looked at them in a strangely wistful way, after the manner of a dog; but in its wistfulnessthere was none of the dog affection.
She looked at him merely with a great wistfulness, but he knew it to be thewistfulness of an equally great hunger.
She had snarled as she sprang away, baring her white fangs to their roots, all her wistfulness vanishing, being replaced by a carnivorous malignity that made him shudder.
A new wistfulness was in her face, but it was not the wistfulness of hunger.
It was a wistfulness bred of hunger, as cruel as its own fangs, as merciless as the frost itself.
It still regarded them with the merciless wistfulness of hunger.
He felt the wistfulness and mistook its cause, and said tenderly:-- "Poor little mother!
It does not seem quite right, mamma," he said, with a smile that had almost wistfulness in it.
There was an expression of wistfulness in her beautiful eyes, and a pathetic droop at the corners of her mouth.
Instead she was a very quiet and sad little girl--with an expression of hopeless wistfulness that none but Hazel Strong could interpret.
He is looking with such intense wistfulness at me, that I turn away.
He took her hands in his, but released them after the merest touch, and in the hungry wistfulness of his gaze there was no answering gladness.
His choice wavered between the evangelic wistfulness of "Are you saved?
It was when she wondered thus, that the wistfulness came into her eyes.
This charming one beside him, with the friendly eyes where a faint shadow of wistfulness underlay the surface brightness, was only Lady Claire.
I'd like a guardian like that," said Arlee, with a sudden mischievous wistfulness that played the dickens with Billy's forces of reserve.
Only the soft shadows under the blue eyes gave her face a look of added delicacy for all the unnatural flare of brilliant color, and a faint wistfulness in those eyes seemed to overlay the smiles she practiced, like a cloud shadow on a brook.
There was a new sweetness and a wistfulness in her gravity that did not escape Phil.
Yes, Lois," he said wonderingly; for he was touched by the wistfulness of her plea that he should not fear her influence upon Phil.
But he evaded their wistfulness and a certain doggedness gloomed in his own.
Then she went out rather abstractedly, McVey's eyes following her with the wistfulness of a dog's.
Ronald saw her pure, proud profile, touched to exceeding beauty by the magic light of morning, and an unconscious, childish wistfulness in the lines of her mouth.
The Doctor stood at the entrance of the stockade, watching her, with something akin to wistfulness in his attitude.
And she lay looking from the husband to the wife with a certain wistfulness which pained Catherine, she knew not why.
There was a wistfulness in the long, thin face, and a pathetic accent of surrender in the voice, which hurt the mother's heart.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wistfulness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
