But yet she did nestle unto me, with a little sweet wistfulness, that made warm my heart in a most wondrous fashion; for surely she was mine Own.

"But I mustn't wear you out," he said, a moment later, with an odd wistfulness.

" She stood at the edge of the pavement looking up with a curious wistfulness at the old house; a very pathetic figure, I thought, with her handsome face and proud carriage, her threadbare dress and shabby gloves, standing at the threshold of the home that had been her family's for generations, that should now have been hers, and that was shortly to pass away into the hands of strangers.

There was about them a collective wistfulness that cut the heart; to dwell on the idea of it would have brought her to tears.

But even supposing that one had to be sacrificial, subservient, and to possess all the other Clarinda virtues in order to have a dying man call on one, still, would that burst of delirious wistfulness compensate one for years of servitude?"

His brown eyes had an almost doglike wistfulness.

A slim delicate little lad, with a finely cut face, and blue eyes that by turns would sparkle with animation, and then settle into a dreamy wistfulness, with a deep far-away look in them.

They had hungry eyes, filled with an enormous wistfulness.

Now there was such an exaggerated wistfulness in young Arkwright's attitude that Peter was amused.

why there should not be between us absolute confidence, perfect franknessthat is the great thing, is not it?" He is looking with such intense wistfulness at me, that I turn away.

[MICHAEL watches, with jealous wistfulness, from the road (left rear).BARBARA half fearfully sits up, on the bank by the well.

The President rode along the lines, with a kindly wistfulness in the honest eyes that studied with no superficial glance the long line of shouting soldiery.

But yet she did nestle unto me, with a little sweet wistfulness, that made warm my heart in a most wondrous fashion; for surely she was mine Own.

Her profile had a luminous wistfulness.

Before he began the marine glanced about him, with a certain good-natured wistfulness which might have indicated, to those who understood the countenances of the sea-going classes, a desire to wet his whistle; but if this expression were so intended it was thrown away, for blacksmith Fryker took no spirits himself, nor furnished them to anybody else.

" "If I had adopted you," he pursues, still looking at me with the same painful and intent wistfulness, "if I had been your father, you would have been fond of me, would not you?

Going out of the room she sat for a long time on the doorstep, watching the forest path with patient wistfulness.

Nevertheless, she spoke in a tone of the quietest indifferencea sort of pensive wistfulness habitual with her.

" There were deep shadows about the eyes she raised to Avery's face, but they smiled quite bravely, with all unconscious wistfulness.

"Lie down!" He turned his head slowly back to her and looked with the unspeakable wistfulness of the dumb brutes into her eyes.

He respects you," said Dot, with unwitting wistfulness.

There was an attractive wistfulness about heran undeniable charm, a wholesomenessthe sort of a woman, reflected Carroll instantly, whom a sensible man marries.

The heavy-hearted men in the great room of Cedar House listened with the vague wistfulness that the happiness of bird voices always brings to the troubled.

His eyes took on a far-away wistfulness.

This was just the normal expression of her starved girlhoodthe same childlike wistfulness with which a Cinderella might long for her princejust as natural and as wholesome and as much a part of youth as laughter and happiness.