All 19 Uses of "wistful" in "Little Women" - Auto-generated

He looked so wistful as he went away, hearing the frolic and evidently having none of his own.†

p. 24.7 *

Since the party, she had been more eager than ever, and had planned many ways of making friends with him, but he had not been seen lately, and Jo began to think he had gone away, when she one day spied a brown face at an upper window, looking wistfully down into their garden, where Beth and Amy were snow-balling one another.†

p. 49.3

wistfully = with longing or unfulfilled desire

It was bitter cold in the morning, she dropped her precious turnover in the gutter, Aunt March had an attack of the fidgets, Meg was sensitive, Beth would look grieved and wistful when she got home, and Amy kept making remarks about people who were always talking about being good and yet wouldn't even try when other people set them a virtuous example.†

p. 82.1

Holding a hand of each, and watching the two young faces wistfully, Mrs. March said, in her serious yet cheery way... "I want my daughters to be beautiful, accomplished, and good.†

p. 103.7

wistfully = with longing or unfulfilled desire

If he asked her to deliver a Latin oration, it would not have seemed a more impossible task to bashful Beth, but there was no place to run to, no Jo to hide behind now, and the poor boy looked so wistfully at her that she bravely resolved to try.†

p. 144.3

He stood so still that a squirrel, busy with its harvesting, ran down a pine close beside him, saw him suddenly and skipped back, scolding so shrilly that Beth looked up, espied the wistful face behind the birches, and beckoned with a reassuring smile.†

p. 148.9

Then she tied it up with a smart red ribbon, and sat a minute looking at it with a sober, wistful expression, which plainly showed how earnest her work had been.†

p. 157.6

To me it is a rosary, and as such I should use it like a good catholic," said Esther, eyeing the handsome thing wistfully.†

p. 205.9

wistfully = with longing or unfulfilled desire

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.†

p. 227.6

He just stood looking at her so wistfully, so tenderly, that she found her heart relenting in spite of herself.†

p. 245.5

All three wore suits of thin silver gray (their best gowns for the summer), with blush roses in hair and bosom, and all three looked just what they were, fresh-faced, happy-hearted girls, pausing a moment in their busy lives to read with wistful eyes the sweetest chapter in the romance of womanhood.†

p. 269.2

But there was an unconscious emphasis on the last word, and a wistful look in the eyes that never lost their childlike candor, which chilled Jo's heart for a minute with a forboding fear, and decided her to make her little venture 'soon'.†

p. 291.3

Amy often looked wistfully across, longing to be there, where she felt at home and happy, instead of in a corner with nothing to do.†

p. 325.9

wistfully = with longing or unfulfilled desire

Jo thought she was asleep, she lay so still, and putting down her book, sat looking at her with wistful eyes, trying to see signs of hope in the faint color on Beth's cheeks.†

p. 401.5

"It is always so quiet and pleasant here, it does me good, Meg," she used to say, looking about her with wistful eyes, as if trying to discover the charm, that she might use it in her great house, full of splendid loneliness, for there were no riotous, sunny-faced babies there, and Ned lived in a world of his own, where there was no place for her.†

p. 430.3

You are so changed, I sometimes think—" there Amy stopped, with a half-timid, half-wistful look, more significant than her unfinished speech.†

p. 435.7

Have I been all that to you, Jo?" she asked, with wistful, humble earnestness.†

p. 450.8

But her heart was very heavy, she longed to be at home, and every day looked wistfully across the lake, waiting for Laurie to come and comfort her.†

p. 460.4

wistfully = with longing or unfulfilled desire

Then his eyes would turn to Jo so wistfully that she would have surely answered the mute inquiry if she had seen it.†

p. 486.7

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