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clad beast stopped and turned to look once more upon the now wistful face of his
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containing buried remains that draws the wistful,
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’ He said standing and surveying the view with a wistful sadness
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’ Jane said, she looks almost wistful and I suddenly remember that she has no children and this is likely to be the only nearly related wedding she’ll get
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The old hunter sounded slightly wistful at this point, staring into
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His voice went wistful, “She burned so hot and so bright
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” It was a wistful comment, to which both Mandy and Sarah responded readily
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” In a wistful voice she added, “The Illian apocalypse was almost a spiritual experience for me, I do hope you refuse
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” The elder man suddenly inquired with an almost wistful tone, again shaking the redheaded man from his own contemplations
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“His month on the rigs,” she said, a wistful look in her eyes
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It was some time before Soffen spoke again, but when she did her voice held a wistful note
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As a graying sixties generation quickly approaches middle age, sustained by a wistful desire for the ―good old days‖ that typified its youthful idealism, many can‘t help reflecting on those formative years without forlorn regret over a progeny whose slackening awareness and indifference to social ―causes‖ and other immediate issues that continue to trouble our society has given way to self-gratifying designs, like amassing ―huge‖ fortunes, for example
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My mom sat in the armchair of my room in Res looking around her with a wistful air
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Was this woman, whose vulgarity and consciousness of money oozed out of her at every pore, actually asking him to give her Una--his dear little wistful Una with Cecilia's own dark-blue eyes--the child whom the dying mother had clasped to her heart after the other children had been led weeping from the room
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The girls were nervous and wistful
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went from wistful to furious in two seconds flat
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I watch her, wistful as she stirs the teaspoon in her cup
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He evades my eyes as I try to identify his emotions, but when he looks up, the expression on his face is somewhere between sadness and wistful
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wistful that he's already dead, because I still want to kill him
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” Mark nodded with a wistful smile
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Sally managed a weak smile and allowed as how the wistful lieutenant was the first real card-carrying sex maniac she had ever met
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voice from his room,” Hal said wistful y
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His face became wistful
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Europe, for example, the nature-spirits are somewhat wistful, and have
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I guess my mom never imagined her best knives being used for safecracking," said Patsy with a wistful tone as she remembered her parents
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Eleanor said with a slight wistful smile on her lips
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” Her face took on a far-away, wistful look for a second, then she snapped back to the here and now
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The wistful sound of the ladies below, singing a sweet song was all that Varek and Chait could hear
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Wistful longings; quasi-memories or presentiments; events which produce a deja-vu-like sense of connectedness to another “me” in a similar but different reality; are often feeling connections with other probable realities
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These two probable realities interact on each other: in the AIDS branch, there is a wistful longing for the non-AIDS branch; and in the non-AIDS branch, a constant fear of the AIDS branch
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As we sipped Kashmiri kahwa, Sharif sounded wistful
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” The pathologist took on a wistful smile
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woman smiled a wistful smile and clutched her chest
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In fact, they would even make a wistful hope that he
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She smiled in return, although it was distant, wistful
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to have any wistful thinking to live!”
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Her answering smile was so wistful that Aesa almost wished they could stay
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Annie looked so wistful that it almost hurt to see her
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could not scramble away from her within the next few moments of his life, but his wistful escape
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with Sebastian, casting wistful glances back at the mansion
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“And just when was it that father last demonstrated some semblance of lucidity? Might we ever expect the fog to dissipate?” Tel’s gaze drifted back to the window and his tone went wistful
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moment, he felt a wistful pang for their family life
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Still, she couldn’t help the wistful thought that maybe one day someone would feel that way about her
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Vicki's lot is the last one I would choose, yet it makes me wistful
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She had it from an overgrown girl who was waiting outside for her father, and who was really much too big for children's parties but had got an invitation by looking wistful at the right moment
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Happy? Can anybody who is supperless, dinnerless, breakfastless, be happy, Priscilla wondered? But the question struck her as funny, and the vibrating tones in which it was asked struck her as rather funny too, and she opened her eyes for a moment to look up at Robin with a smile of amusement--a smile that she could not guess was turned by the hunger within her into something wistful and tremulous
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She spared a fleeting wistful thought for the naughty red
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pushed away the wistful thought
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He smiled but it was wistful, perhaps even sad
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" She grinned at the memory but it soon turned wistful
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The world below looked dark and peaceful, the ships themselves no louder than her own wistful sigh
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‘Oh, God, it’s too early for that but I’ll be honest, every time he looks at me,” she sighed and her eyes looked wistful, “I just want to jump his bones
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As we enjoyed the wine, Jesse stared towards the ocean, a wistful look on his face
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His smile was gentle and wistful, Fern warmed at his words, squeezing his hand back in consent that she would learn their ways
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She sort of gave me wistful looks but after Ricky I was not a candidate
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He sounded strangely wistful and Rafferty glanced at him in surprise
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” A wistful expression crossed the girl’s features, and so great was her beauty then that Erzsébet felt her heart melt
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” He said in a wistful expression
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She looked up at him, curious at the wistful tone in his voice
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” Her smile turned wistful
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” She wore a wistful smile
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And yet a husband will speak in wistful, glowing terms of his lali even as he stands holding the hand of his life partner, his lulani
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It was almost wistful, as if the music moved him
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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
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He stood so still that a squirrel, busy with it's harvesting, ran dawn 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
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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 ernest her work had been
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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
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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 foreboding fear, and decided her to make her little venturèsoon'
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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
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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
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Have I been all that to you, Jo?" she asked, with wistful, humble earnestness
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She had almost a wistful look, almost resigned
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"wistful sadness pervades these poems
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The paly light of evening falls upon a face infinitely sad and wistful
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The sight of these poor little ones, their utter helplessness and dependence, their patched unsightly clothing and broken boots, and the wistful looks on their pitiful faces as they gazed into the windows of the toy-shops, sent a pang of actual physical pain to his heart and filled his eyes with tears
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Berger lay in the bath, took a sip of her wine and then she smiled a wistful smile
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Salander gave a wistful smile
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“And some fresh bread?” Duchairn injected an edge of wistful longing into his tone, and the secretary smiled
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His tone was wistful, and despite the gravity of the situation, Duchairn smiled
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"He appeared to me in this very room like a haunting ghost, sir"—Captain Mitchell was talking of his Nostromo with true warmth of feeling and a touch of wistful pride
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Through the letters ran a wistful yearning to be back home at forest paths under frosty autumn stars, the barbecues, the fish fries, the quiet of moonlight nights and the serene charm of the old house
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She had given a name to her widower-diplomat; she called him "Eustace", and from that moment he became a figure of fun to her, a little interior, incommunicable joke, so that when at last such a man did cross her path - though he was not a diplomat but a wistful major in the Life Guards - and fall in love with her and offer her just those gifts she had chosen, she sent him away moodier and more wistful than ever; for by that time she had met
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There was a faint wistful whiff of pot
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But just as he had tried opium, so his thought now began to turn upon gambling—not with appetite for its excitement, but with a sort of wistful inward gaze after that easy way of getting money, which implied no asking and brought no responsibility
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How could I know it did trouble you, this question, when you never told me so, never spoke of it at all?" His clear, listening face, framed in its smooth whiteness, made him for the minute as appealing as some wistful patient in a children's hospital; and I would have given, as the resemblance came to me, all I possessed on earth really to be the nurse or the sister of charity who might have helped to cure him
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“Fascinating trade,” said the old man, and a wistful look came into his eyes, “doing the coastlines was always my recession came and we decided it would save us a lot of bother if we just slept through it
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” Another wistful look came into his tired old eyes
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I was now too fond of you often to simulate the first whim; and, when I stretched my hand out cordially, such bloom and light and bliss rose to your young, wistful features, I had much ado often to avoid straining you then and there to my heart
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One evening, after Henry had been there a year, he gained the paramount respect of James Flower; rather a wistful respect, though he lost no love by it
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” Now he was going, Henry knew that he had grown to love this red-faced, wistful man
