43 Words to use with wan

" She looked up at him, with a wan smile.

Then she looked up with a smile that quite glorified her wan face.

" An icy horror chills the Champion's heart, His brain whirls round with agonizing smart; O'er his wan cheek no gushing sorrows flow, Senseless he sinks beneath the weight of woe; Relieved at length, with frenzied look, he cries: "Prove thou art mine, confirm my doubting eyes!

But to be human was to love life, to hate death, to faint under loss, to throb and pant with heavy sighs, to lie sleepless in the long dark night, to shrink with unutterable sadness at the wan light of dawn, to follow duty with a laggard sense, to feel the slow ebb of vitality and not to care, to suffer with a breaking heart.

" "It's the wan thing, sorr," says O'Flynn with solemnity"it's the wan thing on the top o' God's futstool that makes me feel I cud wurruk.

VANITY A wan sky greener than the lawn, A wan lawn paler than the sky.

As the pale squadrons, bending o'er the brink, 400 View with a sigh their alter'd forms, and drink; Slow-ebbing life with refluent crimson breaks O'er their wan lips, and paints their haggard cheeks; Through each fine nerve rekindling transports dart, Light the quick eye, and swell the exulting heart.

"What do they mean, Dickie," she whispered with a wan look, "when they call me'Hudson's Queen'?" Dickie bent from her look as though he felt a pain.

Wan hundred an' six plus wan hundred an' twinty-foive makes two hundred an' thirty-wan votes losht at the shlammin' uv the front dure.

There was also the Catherine-pear, to which Gay alludes in his "Pastorals," where Sparabella, on comparing herself with her rival, says: "Her wan complexion's like the withered leek, While Catherine-pears adorn my ruddy cheek.

315 And to and fro, and in and out, The wan stars danced between.

In the bewildering change of events we had forgotten the wan figure on the bed still gasping for the breath of life.

She had, before him there, on the instant, all acutely, a sense of rising sicknessa wan glimmer of foresight as to the end of the fond dream.

The wan glow accented the loneliness, and for the moment left him depressed.

But when the world Is clad in midnight's raven-coloured robe, 'Mid hollow charnel let me watch the flame Of taper dim, shedding a livid glare O'er the wan heaps, while airy voices talk Along the glimmering walls, or ghostly shape, At distance seen, invites with beckoning hand,

The livid sky threw a wan leaden light on the village which was now transformed into a lake of mud pricked by needles of water that dotted the puddles with drops of bright silver.

It was the same childish face, but all marked upon with inexplicable wan lines of a certain mysterious womanhood.

There was the same stem clash of the jaw, the same hard, determined frown in this, their lovely descendant, that confronted Plantagenet and his mailed legions on the plains by Stirling, that stiffened under the wan moonlight on Culloden Moor amongst broken claymores and riven targets, and tartans all stained to the deep-red hues of the Stuart with his clansmen's blood.

I can make nothing of this knot; try what you can do with it, messmate, will you?" "Sorra wan o' me'll try it," cried O'Riley, suddenly leaping up and swinging both arms violently against his shoulders; "I've got two hands, I have, but niver a finger on themleastwise I feel none, though it is some small degrae o' comfort to see them.

This was not Manuel, not the wan prisoner of Foray,but her heart needed none to tell her it was the hero who had loved the lady of this château in the splendor of his manhood.

In his dizzy brain, these wan rays which silver the surface of the sea, seem so many phantoms coming to be present at his last moments.

The "Morning Chronicle" would have no reason now to complain of its "wan red."...

" The invalid lay quite still for several minutes, looking steadily at his friend, and finally let a faint smile play about his mouth,a wan reminder of his habitual roguery.

Sheila recovered herself and looked up at him with a sort of wan resolution.

"Sure it's all wan sheet of flame, none of us could get near it," cried one, pointing to the rick.

43 Words to use with  wan