"Wistfulness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... hold them between his own. But most of all he loved to see Harris bending over him, moving about him, and when Lilian came and gave him drink and touched his fevered head, his glittering eyes would soften and follow her with such a world of wistfulness as though they would speak the longing of his heart. Then he would look from her to Harris, and from Harris back to her, in a way that sent the blushes surging to her forehead, and the sight of those blushes set that young ...
— Tonio, Son of the Sierras - A Story of the Apache War • Charles King
... rude. I was still a cad. She eyed me, with a certain whiteness, a certain puzzled intentness, a certain fugitive wistfulness—a mute estimation that made me too conscious of her clear appraising gaze and rack my brain ...
— Desert Dust • Edwin L. Sabin
... and sped home by the seaside, without farewell, alarmed at this oddity, and Gilian and the Cornal stood alone, the Cornal looking after her with a wistfulness in ...
— Gilian The Dreamer - His Fancy, His Love and Adventure • Neil Munro
... might be lonesome?" There was a note of wistfulness in the musical voice as she asked the question. The glow in the golden eyes uplifted to his held a shy ...
— Making People Happy • Thompson Buchanan
... The wistfulness faded from Torquemada's eyes. They grew keen, as became the eyes of an inquisitor, the eyes of a sleuth, quick to fasten on a spoor. ...
— The Historical Nights Entertainment, Second Series • Rafael Sabatini
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