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Sentence Examples His low voice muttered wistfully looking further down the path and seeing the wall that encased the palace like a boa and it's prey. She thought wistfully of the elegant ball gown that had been made just for tonight. Even so, she had never stopped wistfully daydreaming about what could have been, of the life she could have lived on Lothos. She wished wistfully for a warm summer on a Californian beach where her skin burned as easily as toast and time seemed to stand still. As Nora listened to him laugh and shout with the others, she set her elbow on the table, resting her head upon it, and sighed wistfully. Titles and badges are exercised as such a weapon, to which you and I look up wistfully. An oversized gnome, he looms over garden ponds, stares wistfully up at bedroom windows. He looks wistfully down from the second-story balcony of the smallpox pavilion. I'd intended to be mature and sedate and demure and just wistfully watch the young guests from afar. The contentment and happiness of love is always to be longed for or wistfully remembered. He thinks wistfully of how he used to hop freights, white lightning in hobo jungles, go through the pockets of the recently dead. It might have been because I was gazing wistfully at him as he strode in our direction. I used my time back on campus to catch up with my old lecturers and to walk wistfully around my old haunts. Bernie fingered a sable goatee wistfully, then turned back to the budget beards. On the odd occasion that he's had a few to drink, I think he brings out the red suit and talks wistfully about his sleigh. It stands in that wistfully earnest doggy way that you see them doing as they wait on the footpath outside the fish and chip shop. Rabinyan presents us with a world in which Persian odalisques lie wistfully, like tantalising fruit, where a certain lyricism pervades the air. He spoke wistfully of the war when his father was able to run out between air raids and plunder unexploded bombs. No matter how wistfully we may long for the fountain of youth, the fact is that Laws of Thermodynamics are irrefutable. Later on, as she was making dinner, she paused mid-stir with the wooden spatula deep into the Quorn mince and looked wistfully skywards. Show More Sentences She wistfully wondered aloud to me last year if she had made the right decision. As I sat there, wistfully watching the kids run round me, I scattered some cheesy puffs and cashew nuts for pigeons which descended cooing and flapping to peck among the grit. I stood outside and admired the long sash windows on the raised ground floor and the two olive trees, wistfully aspiring to the Mediterranean. For centuries people have wistfully watched birds take wing and felt a bit jealous. Resigned to do the right thing, Mademoiselle Lulu has her nose pressed up against the sandwich and is looking at it wistfully? She glanced wistfully at the picture of Amber on the mantelpiece. The friction between the two is natural, as is the urge to sigh wistfully for a perfect past. Sighing wistfully he turned and looked up the sheer cliff towering toward the heavens. Serenity said and smiled wistfully, longing for the days when she was that young. He smiled wistfully and we got up leaving money and a tip on the table. The drum machine offbeats are still present, but instead of snarky basslines and slow grinds, the song features a wistfully high organ stomp, and shifting tempos throughout. Throughout, these weighty matters are examined candidly and wistfully, with the wisdom that only age and inwardness can bring. Enough with staring wistfully at those better tressed than you. There are coast paths, too, winding through dwarf willow and mountain ash to ruined villages looking wistfully out to sea, their populations long since departed. Gilmour recalls wistfully glancing at the hotel spa pool upon retiring. He'd wistfully recalled the time when he'd felt brotherly love for him. The old Astrologer gazed wistfully toward the Great Cathedral! of Lhasa. We will only be able to wistfully look back to past opportunities. As Poldark broods as only he can, Demelza continues to hide her pregnancy and stare wistfully off into the middle distance while Elizabeth gives her husband the glad eye. Second, after a frantic scramble for presidential candidates to register by October 6th, they know that in a year's time they may be looking wistfully back on the Karzai era. Show More Sentences I was into my twenties when my mother astonished me by saying wistfully, 'I'd give anything to be 45 again.' Forty-five sounded like old age to me then. The evening shadows lengthened as they stole across the little park, lending a welcome privacy to young couples who strolled wistfully among the trees. In the second intermezzo a wistfully melancholy matrix of flowing notes veils a delicate tune which mixes the poise of a minuet with the informality of a quiet conversation. Rhodes gazed wistfully into the dense umbrageous tangle whence his host had disappeared. After eating tsampa and nothing but tsampa for more than eighty years,' he said somewhat wistfully, 'I feel a strange longing to taste other food even once before passing on to where I shall not need any. The young monk chuckled to think that even vultures could eat too much, and he wondered wistfully what it would be like to have even the opportunity of eating too much. He also remembers wistfully the time he saw a sea-elephant at Crown Bay. Another intelligent child, he spoke wistfully of his life before his father and uncle were killed and how he would be in school if they were still alive. This wistfully fluid elasticity of self is a great challenge for an actor. In the 1980s I met many old Papua New Guineans who wistfully recalled a time when the German masta was in charge in many parts of former German New Guinea. In an intolerable sweetness, a contentment so deep that he was wistfully discontented, he saw magnolias by moonlight and heard plantation darkies crooning to the banjo. To this day Katie thought wistfully of the night in his apartment when his salami had split her loins sending her into a state of sexual ecstasy unmatched in human history. The muted colours of early Cubist paintings are used for the costumes echoing a Picasso harlequinade and wistfully evocative of the age of Diaghalev. Examples from Classical Literature Then with a quick, shuddery blink her eyes came flashing back wetly and wistfully to the unsolved, inscrutable face before her. As we dropped below the towhead, the Boy, for once silent, wistfully gazed astern. But she leaned not imperatively, not seductively, but wistfully and humbly. Presently he shrugged his shoulders and went off to a picture palace by himself and thought wistfully of Jeanne. As the only masculine point of view available, she appealed to Mannie wistfully. The latter regarded him wistfully, started away, then returned and whined softly. Billy jogged off, leading garryowen, and Jim watched them half wistfully for a minute before turning to the car. She fixed her eyes wistfully on the tower of the palace, which rose out of the lower darkness like a pillar of roughened gold. He gazed wistfully at Dave's watchchain and at the stickpin. She turned to her kindred soul and looked at him gently, almost wistfully. He glanced wistfully along the road towards the hills, and then set off walking obediently the other way, buttoning up his coat against the rain. And she looked wistfully at the unsold matches lying in her lap. He made no reply, though his eye fell wistfully on the beautiful form of Alice, who was clinging to his arm with the dependency of an infant. Tom had been standing wistfully examining the multitude of faces thronging around him, for one whom he would wish to call master. Jerry was silent, as he stood gazing wistfully at the inquirer. Here he came to an abrupt close, eying the sugar-plum wistfully. He looked wistfully at the dice and box lying on the mantlepiece. Pocahontas slipped her arm wistfully 'round her friend's waist. Captain Truck hesitated, and he looked wistfully at the mast. And as he spoke, Cesarini turned keenly and wistfully round. Show More Sentences Mark looked about him wistfully, and his face brightened as he looked. All the same his mind dwelt wistfully on the story of the Seventh pullet. As she trode along the foot-worn passages, and opened one crazy door after another, and ascended the creaking staircase, she gazed wistfully and fearfully around. Her eyes kindled as they turned wistfully toward the window, but they fell on the old house opposite, and she shook her head with sorrowful decision. On top of the dunnage, in the stern-sheets, Michael gazed wistfully at the Mary Turner and continued to snarl crustily at Scraps who idiotically wanted to start a romp. So they sat down upon the bank and gazed wistfully at the Scarecrow until a Stork flew by, who, upon seeing them, stopped to rest at the water's edge. Find more words! 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