Adjective : His wan face suddenly flushed. ,a wan look; a wan smile. ,their wan attempts to organize the alumni. From Dictionary.com.
Such, then, is the cause of the wanness of my complexion. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
He glanced at her, dim in star-glow and wanness off the control panel. From Wordnik.com. [A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows]
I stepped back, aware that the gray wizard had the slightest hint of wanness about him. From Wordnik.com. [The Magic of Recluce]
Since that little cloud was dispelled, all the temporary waste and wanness have vanished. From Wordnik.com. [Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte] Reference
The look in her eyes changed just as he did so, her wanness giving way to outright terror. From Wordnik.com. [Morgawr]
In her there always appears a terrible wanness, right upon the heels of a wonderful freshness. From Wordnik.com. [Clair de Lune A Play in Two Acts and Six Scenes] Reference
He saw a fish go by, from the wanness on his left to the perspectiveless distances on his right. From Wordnik.com. [Three Hearts and Three Lions]
Her clear blue eyes seemed to have grown bigger, her hair looked thicker from the wanness and thinness of her face. From Wordnik.com. [The Insulted and the Injured] Reference
His countenance was haggard, and his complexion seemed to be a struggle between the wanness of care and the redness of intemperance. From Wordnik.com. [Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue] Reference
Strether stared at him with a little of the wanness, no doubt, that the vision of more to “make out” could scarce help producing. From Wordnik.com. [The Ambassadors] Reference
Joyce had been studying his face -- nothing had escaped her: its wanness, the sharp outline, and the tears congealed in the hollows of his cheeks. From Wordnik.com. [Joyce of the North Woods] Reference
To this was added a certain wanness and air of fatigue. From Wordnik.com. [Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale] Reference
His pleasant, youthful face was drawn to mummy-like wanness. From Wordnik.com. [The Ghost Breaker A Novel Based Upon the Play] Reference
Helena wanted the day-wanness to be quite wiped off the west. From Wordnik.com. [The Trespasser] Reference
Through the cool wanness of dawn and the burning of noontide. From Wordnik.com. [0 1676. The Cattle of His Hand by Wilbur Underwood. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900] Reference
The ghastly little skull-cap showed forth its wanness rigidly. From Wordnik.com. [Rhoda Fleming — Complete] Reference
But the ambulance will bellow through the wanness of their dreams. From Wordnik.com. [Library Work with Children] Reference
There appeared a wanness in the night, and Helena felt inexpressibly dreary. From Wordnik.com. [The Trespasser] Reference
He passed his hand over his forehead heavily, and a wanness came into his face and eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale] Reference
A year is a long time to a child, but it did not account to me for a curious wanness in her colour. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Harry Revel] Reference
She had taken off her high, close neckwear, and the wanness of her throat showed above a collarless shirt-waist. From Wordnik.com. [A Touch of Sun and Other Stories] Reference
Miss Arden, looking back at her, noted how each day was helping to remove the pallor and wanness from that face. From Wordnik.com. [Red Pepper's Patients With an Account of Anne Linton's Case in Particular] Reference
There was a faded look about her complexion, too, which she had never before discovered -- a wanness, a yellowness. From Wordnik.com. [Vixen, Volume III.] Reference
Strether stared at him with a little of the wanness, no doubt, that the vision of more to "make out" could scarce help producing. From Wordnik.com. [The Ambassadors] Reference
He had a large head, thickly covered with dark hair, which, with his moustache and beard, heightened the wanness of his complexion. From Wordnik.com. [Thyrza] Reference
Her jealous shame at being disprized and notoriously neglected had given her wanness and bitterness, instead of warmth and sweetness. From Wordnik.com. [We Can't Have Everything] Reference
His cheek was livid and worn, and its healthy colouring gained by years of hearty out-door exercise, was all gone into the wanness of age. From Wordnik.com. [A Dark Night's Work] Reference
And pallor ornamenting brow as though ’Twere wanness such as waning crescents show. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
The pallid wanness and weariness of her world!. From Wordnik.com. [The Plumed Serpent] Reference
There was an unnatural wanness to her complexion. From Wordnik.com. [Best Kept Secrets]
Came o'er the wanness of his cheek. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes] Reference
I note a certain wanness of the cheek. From Wordnik.com. [Psmith in the City] Reference
A gloomy wanness spoiled her rosy cheek. From Wordnik.com. [Poems Chiefly from Manuscript] Reference
Ammiani; and her face had a spectral wanness. From Wordnik.com. [Vittoria — Complete] Reference
The wanness of his youthful frame, that speaks. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor] Reference
Some wanness where, I think, thy foot may fall!. From Wordnik.com. [Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning] Reference
Some wanness where, I think, thy foot may fall! ". From Wordnik.com. [An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry] Reference
Some wanness where, I think, thy foot may fall. ". From Wordnik.com. [Emerson and Other Essays] Reference
Some wanness where, I think, thy foot may fall!”. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Robert Browning]
"Some whiteness" ... v. 25, "Some wanness" ... v. 26, to be construed with "blessing back". From Wordnik.com. [An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry] Reference
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