855 examples of wan in sentences

Ever since the death of his wife, whose end had been hastened by the sudden and complete disappearance of her darling sister Esther, the wan colourlessness of his face had been intensified; his stern enthusiasm, once latent, had become visible; his heart, tenderer than ever towards the victims of the misery around him, grew harder towards the employers, whom he believed to be the cause of that misery.

"Didn't I tell you" "Go-wan!" said Mayme.

"They look mild as goat's milk to me," returned the Magistrate, "though now I get me eye on the rid-hidded wan

For they see in battered harness Only one hard-stricken man, And his weary steed is wounded, And his cheek is pale and wan.

But when he came, though pale and wan, He looked so great and high, So noble was his manly front, So calm his steadfast eye; The rabble rout forebore to shout, And each man held his breath, For well they knew the hero's soul Was face to face with death.

Though the cheeks of all were wan, And they marvelled as they saw him pass, That great and goodly man! XVI. He mounted up the scaffold, And he turned him to the crowd; But they dared not trust the people, So he might not speak aloud.

"But when he came, though pale and wan, He looked so great and high,"p.

And oh, his brow was wan!

Nothing had changed; the Palace was always the same; there were the same faces, the same porter with the wan complexion, the same attendants, at once haughty and servile.

Inside it, some thousand or so of labouring people, all wan and haggard, with many women among them, were swarming restlessly round a single large block of stone.

When he clawed obscurely at the crystallized sugar ornaments under the bright bonnet of the fainting Model, his air looked so dejected, his eyes so hollow, and his smile so wan that Angela's fury melted into pity.

"I wan' to see you 'n' talk wi' you all alone," she said presently.

Her wan face was wet with tears, and her hands were clasped around her knee as she rocked from side to side in great pain.

you're the wan To take ould Erin by the han'; We'll pummel the Britishers every man, And make you King of Ireland!

you're the wan To take ould Erin by the han'; We'll pummel the Britishers every man, And make you King of Ireland!

you're the wan Who've tuk ould Erin by the han'; We'll pummel the Britishers every man.

No! OAKEY, darlin', you're the wan Who've tuk ould Erin by the han'; We'll pummel the Britishers every man, And make you King of Ireland!

But no! for OAKEY, you're the wan That tuk ould Erin by the han'; We'll pummel the Britishers every man, And make you King of Ireland!

OAKEY, darlin', you're the wan That tuk ould Erin by the han'; We'll pummel the Britishers every man, And make you King of Ireland.

OAKEY, darlin', you're the wan That tuk ould Erin by the han'; An' you'll be King of all her lan', King

The last time they had seen her, she was alive and smiling at themsuch a brave, wan shadow of her usual smilefor a few moments they went about their affairs, full of hopeand when they entered the sick-room again Sylvia could bear no more, screaming out, motioning Judith imperiously to stop;she began to understand what had happened to her; the words she had repeated so dully were like thunder in her ears.

He said it at dinner; and as he said it, David Wilson glanced at my wan face with a smile of pleased malice: for I was left out.

It was like Night blanched in death then; and wan as the very kingdom of death and Hades I have seen it, most terrifying, that neuter state and limbo of nothingness, when unreal sea and spectral sky, all boundaries lost, mingled in a vast shadowy void of ghastly phantasmagoria, pale to utter huelessness, at whose centre I, as if annihilated, seemed to swoon in immensity of space.

A five-barred gate on my left opened into a hedge, and swung with creaks: two yards from my feet lay a little shaggy pony with swollen wan abdomen, the very picture of death, and also about me a number of dead wet birds.

Me, I walk heem once, maybe so feefty mile, maybe so seexty mile, in wan day, two-t'ree a little more tam, me.

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