44 examples of wanly in sentences

One day he announced that he had been offered a post as steward to a big planter at Henricus, and when I warmly bade him accept it, he smiled wanly, and said he had done so a week agone.

" Donnegan smiled wanly.

I actually think she would have been glad to see that fiend, Lord Nick, take Landis away!" Donnegan smiled wanly.

" Catrina smiled wanly.

Gawain watched his hunter wanly.

But I'm sorry, and I'm mighty glad that you been found to be O.K." Wanly she smiled and thanked him for his good wishes.

From the chest of drawers two candles, the only light, played wanly over the still figure and the ashen face.

She would look up and smile wanly, and shake her head.

" "The red badge of triumph, eh?" smiled the candidate, wanly.

"Notnot as a prisoner?" she whispered, wanly smiling.

But the Irish Andromeda still awaits her Perseus, gazing wanly at her various champions in Convention.

Merle smiled wanly, shaking his head the while as one who contradicts from superior knowledge.

" Said Manuel: "Yes, but the long low sobbing of the violin, troubling as the vague thoughts begotten by that season wherein summer is not yet perished from the earth, but lingers wanly in the tattered shrines of summer, speaks of what was and of what might have been.

The delighted amazement reached even her tired ears, and she had smiled wanly as she pushed the pile of coppers nearer to him.

" Claire smiled wanly.

She smiled brightly at Ruth and wanly at John Mark, then started at the sight of the stranger.

She smiled wanly at that, for though, as we know, it was true, she misunderstood him.

Letty, passing, glanced wanly at the Sister, then said to Ailsa: "Colonel Arran is in the second barn on the hay.

Drooping branches echo their stricken love while a tree in the background, its branches stretching wanly against the sky, suggests their plaintive yearning.

Mr. Tasker smiled wanly.

" Mr. Gordon opened his eyes and smiled at us wanly.

He smiled wanly.

He looked at her for a moment steadily, then asked: "Do you know of any reason why I should not go?" Instantly the startled look vanished; a smile lit up the pale face, wanly.

" She smiled rather wanly.

" She smiled wanly at his optimism.

44 examples of  wanly  in sentences