I cannot," answered Frances, now aswoebegone as Nelly herself.
Her eyes were red with weeping, and the woebegone expression of her face would have been amusing had I not known that some good cause was back of it.
Their woebegone air was achieved almost entirely by not washing--it owed little to nature, to adventitious aids in the shape of deformities.
Here the spectators became aware of two woebegone infants dragging at her skirts.
The woebegone voice died away in sobs, and with a broken cry of compassion Lucinda gathered that unhappy little body into her arms.
That was snowballing a cripple," and he was really most woebegone about it.
With his hand in the case he paused and turned a most woebegone countenance to the junior Burnit.
His long, yellow oilskin slicker reached to his heels and was just running with water; the felt hat that almost entirely obscured his woebegone features dripped water down his neck.
Perceiving their woebegone appearance, he sat erect, and for the first time took in the situation.
Some of them land in such a woebegone condition that they are fit for nothing but to lie about on the benches in the "Park" until the hoot of the steamer rouses them to crawl back to the quay.
Once such a passenger saw the stoker looming across his field of vision, and, in spite of being curled up and woebegone with sea-sickness, he aimed at him a feeble joke.
The lady, seeing her husband come unawares, started up all woebegone and told him that which had befallen the girl.
But he, having a mind to return her cheat for cheat, being one day sent for by her to sup and sleep with her, went thither so chapfallen and so woebegone that it seemed as he would die.
Loving him over all else as she did, it needeth no asking if she were woebegone for this and daring not make any outcry, she silently fell a-weeping over him and bewailing so sore a mishap.
Something about thewoebegone figure of adventure had set on fire her mother instinct and her sense of passionate romance.
She felt pity for this woebegone shadow of a human being, and terror lest the Policeman, who lived on the white, summery high road, would catch him and send him to the gallows before he was safe inside.
The two girls looked at each other, Tabitha with a woebegone expression, and Janice with an odd one, which might mean many things.
Silence ensued, as soldiers and crowd stared at the immovable Joseph, whose complexion slowly turned from ruddy to white, and from white to greenish yellow, while into his eyes and mouth came a hang-dog look of woebegone misery and sickness.
Corporal Betts, however, must have got little comfort out of his hat; for seeing him look so soldierly in it, the whim seized upon Brant to compel the unlucky corporal to review his woebegone troops.
Here he catches her shoulders and forces that one admission from her, and makes the great praying woebegone eyes meet his.
She asked that last question with the expression of a weary woebegone child, and I answered it without thought, and upon the urge of a wrong impulse.
Nothing else could ever have made you look so dismally woebegoneas you did, when Providence sent me to your relief.
Anne's woebegoneface bobbed up over the window-sill.
Tommy was hunched up in the bottom of the boat--and his face had the woebegone look of the inexperienced sailor.
Perhaps it was a woebegone look about the Doctor that made Philip Hume take the chair next him after dinner, while Dale was, still as if in play, emitting anarchist sparks for the Colonel's entertainment.
And, her confession ended, she sank into a little woebegone heap on the floor at his feet.
Clinging to her skirts was a little girl as woebegone and white-faced as her mother.
Before the laughing Inspector could reply a constable entered, holding by the arm a poorly dressed woman of woebegone appearance.
If I had her reason for looking woebegone I wouldn't look it either," said Jill.
This opinion was borne out by his woebegone appearance.
She doesn't look half as woebegone over it as you do," I said.
Jeb sat with a woebegone expression on a heavy chair.
At the sight of his cousin, Vince's shoulders seemed to droop, and his eyes assumed a woebegone expression that was something new.
She was standing just where he had left her: close beside a woebegone tree with an iron tree-guard around it.
Poor Mrs Mitford, who had been sitting with her hands clasped in her lap, and an utterly woebegone expression on her pale face, raised her head with a troubled look on being thus directly appealed to.
He was standing in the middle of the floor with fluttering hands, a woebegone expression on his upturned face.
The woebegone heroes of Communipaw eyed each other with rueful countenances; their squadrons had been totally dispersed by the late disaster.
Each man looked ruefully in his neighbor's face, in search of encouragement, but only found in itswoebegone lineaments a confirmation of his own dismay.
