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.

She reflected with a wistfulness of note that was in itself a touching eloquence.

" 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.

SILAS: Hm. (the wistfulness with which he speaks of that outside his knowledge)

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

But she was none the less interested in those who for one reason or another were alien to herin the Japanese boy, concealing his wistfulness beneath his rigid breeding; in the Armenian girl with the sad, beautiful eyes; in the Yiddish youth with his bashful earnestness.