All 3 Uses of
wistful
in
The Age of Innocence
- He had, to be sure, other tastes and interests; he spent his vacations in European travel, cultivated the "clever people" May spoke of, and generally tried to "keep up," as he had somewhat wistfully put it to Madame Olenska.†
Chpt 14
- He stood in the window, drumming against the raised sash, and feeling in every fibre the wistful tenderness with which she had spoken her cousin's name.†
Chpt 24 *
- And she twinkled a little wistfully at Archer.†
Chpt 33
Definition:
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(wistful) showing longing or unfulfilled desire