All 16 Uses of
wistful
in
White Fang
- It looked at them in a strangely wistful way, after the manner of a dog; but in its wistfulness there was none of the dog affection.†
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- It looked at them in a strangely wistful way, after the manner of a dog; but in its wistfulness there was none of the dog affection.†
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- It was a wistfulness bred of hunger, as cruel as its own fangs, as merciless as the frost itself.†
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- It still regarded them with the merciless wistfulness of hunger.†
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- She was not more than half a dozen feet away sitting in the snow and wistfully regarding him.†
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- She looked at him merely with a great wistfulness, but he knew it to be the wistfulness of an equally great hunger.†
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- She looked at him merely with a great wistfulness, but he knew it to be the wistfulness of an equally great hunger.†
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- She had snarled as she sprang away, baring her white fangs to their roots, all her wistfulness vanishing, being replaced by a carnivorous malignity that made him shudder.†
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- "You ain't got me yet!" he cried, savagely shaking his fist at the hungry beasts; and at the sound of his voice the whole circle was agitated, there was a general snarl, and the she-wolf slid up close to him across the snow and watched him with hungry wistfulness.†
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- A new wistfulness was in her face, but it was not the wistfulness of hunger.†
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- A new wistfulness was in her face, but it was not the wistfulness of hunger.†
Part 2
- And always he returned, restless and uncomfortable, to whimper softly and wistfully at Kiche's side and to lick her face with eager, questioning tongue.†
Part 3
- White Fang gazed at him wistfully.
Part 4 *wistfully = with longing or unfulfilled desire
- Instead, and after a wistful, searching look, he snuggled in, burrowing his head out of sight between the master's arm and body.†
Part 5
- Sitting on the deck several feet away and watching wistfully was White Fang.†
Part 5
- The latter regarded him wistfully, started away, then returned and whined softly.†
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Definition:
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(wistful) showing longing or unfulfilled desire