All 6 Uses of
wistful
in
Lonesome Dove
- "If them bandits were to come, maybe the Captain would let me start wearing a gun," Newt said wistfully.†
Chpt 1-2 *wistfully = with longing or unfulfilled desire
- "If you was to wear a gun somebody would just mistake you for a gunfighter and shoot you," Augustus said, noting the boy's wistful look.†
Chpt 1-2
- Then, all because of the sign, he went into a sulk and stayed in it until Augustus finally spotted him looking wistfully at it one day and figured it out.†
Chpt 7-8wistfully = with longing or unfulfilled desire
- "I hope the weather didn't treat her too bad," Dish said, feeling wistful suddenly.†
Chpt 34-35
- Tobe Walker looked wistful when they told him they were taking a herd to Montana.†
Chpt 42-43
- Yet he became a little wistful, thinking of the boys.†
Chpt 85-86
Definition:
showing longing or unfulfilled desire