"Wanly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... me," replied Nyoda lightly. "Cheer up. All the famous authors had their first work rejected. You have achieved the first mark of fame." Migwan smiled wanly. Her tragedies always seemed to lose their sting in the light of Nyoda's optimism. She told her about the necessity for a typewriter. "I could have told you that to begin with, if you had asked my humble advice," replied Nyoda. "But ...
— The Camp Fire Girls at School • Hildegard G. Frey
... Hagar smiled wanly and rubbed her eyes vigorously with the back of her free hand, meanwhile looking sidelong ...
— The Range Boss • Charles Alden Seltzer
... evening in town. Instead of hurrying out to the suburbs on the 6:17 train, to mow the lawn and admire the fireflies, here he was watching the more dazzling fireflies of the city—the electric signs which were already bulbed wanly against the rich orange of the falling sun. He puffed his pipe lustily and with a jaunty condescension watched the crowds thronging the drugstores for their dram of ice-cream soda. In his bosom the secret julep tingled radiantly. At that hour of the evening the shining ...
— In the Sweet Dry and Dry • Christopher Morley
... smiled wanly at the thought that since the morning she no longer thought of it as her brother's, but as Gertie's—while such a thing as a dinner served in courses had probably never been heard of by anyone but Reggie, her brother and herself, the few simple, well-cooked dishes bore ...
— The Land of Promise • D. Torbett
... smiled up at him wanly. "Good-night, Doctor," he replied. "Thank you for coming in—whether I sleep the better ...
— Red Pepper's Patients - With an Account of Anne Linton's Case in Particular • Grace S. Richmond
... eat so much this afternoon? They left us the biggest part of the luncheon. Henry, we are pigs," moaned Clara, wanly. ...
— Across the Mesa • Jarvis Hall
... heart daring many a year, for he was a born man-at-arms, but he had kept it, and meant to keep it, though not exactly according to the tenets of William Penn. Somehow, his mother's beautiful face, wanly exquisite in that unearthly light which foreshadows the merging of time into eternity, rose before him now as he passed from the aristocratic dimness of Prince's Gate into the glare and bustle of Knightsbridge. A newsboy rushed along, yelling at the top of his voice. The ...
— The Wheel O' Fortune • Louis Tracy
... He smiled wanly. "All of it, Frank, all of it should be altered. There is no spirit in a prison but hate, hate masked in degrading formalism. They first break the will and rob you of hope, and then rule by fear. One day a warder came ...
— Oscar Wilde, Volume 2 (of 2) - His Life and Confessions • Frank Harris
... his finger tips. She opened her eyes and smiled wanly, and looked at the front slip of the long proofs. At ...
— Jaffery • William J. Locke
... Gerrit and Nettie Vollar driving in the direction of the harbor; she was lying back wanly in the Ammidon barouche, but her companion's face was set directly ahead, his expression of general disdain strongly marked. A vigorous hand, Roger noted, was clasped about Nettie's supine palm. She saw him standing on the sidewalk ...
— Java Head • Joseph Hergesheimer
... She smiled rather wanly. "Life can be—rather cruel," she said. "Something is working against me. I can feel it. I have forfeited all Burke's respect and his confidence at a stroke. He will never trust me again. And Guy—Guy ...
— The Top of the World • Ethel M. Dell
... Wanly upon the panes The rain slides, as have slid since morn my colourless thoughts; and yet Here, while Day's presence wanes, And over him the sepulchre-lid is slowly lowered and ...
— Old and New Masters • Robert Lynd
... wanly. He had no great cause to "buck up," his share of the boiled leg would be very small indeed and entirely knuckle, the Professor holding that the ...
— The Missing Link • Edward Dyson
... She smiled wanly and earnestly, so Peter thought. A dozen impulses militated against his believing a word of this glib explanation; his common sense told him that he should seek further, that the explanation was only half made; and yet it cannot be denied that she had gone unerringly to his ...
— Peter the Brazen - A Mystery Story of Modern China • George F. Worts
... and realized in a dull, half comprehending way that I had dropped my book. After that, I just sat; and thus the daylight found me, when it crept wanly in through the barred, high windows of the ...
— The House on the Borderland • William Hope Hodgson
... wanly, and left Tom in suspense a moment before he answered. Then he glanced balefully at his ankle. "Some of us were going into the South, and ... well, we were simply ...
— Tom of the Raiders • Austin Bishop
... A procession of blasts came roaring down the street. It was biting cold. The snow stung. The muffled lights shone wanly through the night, and laid bare the desolate scene. Polly breathed hard as she staggered across the piazza. The steps were a drifty slope of white, making descent dangerous; but she plunged on, gained a scant foothold, missed the next, clutched at nothing, and went down, a helpless little ...
— Polly of Lady Gay Cottage • Emma C. Dowd
... nerves would not find rest in sleep at once. His thoughts were troubling and unpleasant. The pale firelight filled the cabin, dancing against the walls. The glare reflected wanly on ...
— The Snowshoe Trail • Edison Marshall
... when the slight rustle of feminine garments at my side caused me to lower the glass. Mrs Vansittart was standing at my elbow. She was still very pale, and her eyelids were swollen and red with recent weeping, but she smiled wanly as she offered ...
— The First Mate - The Story of a Strange Cruise • Harry Collingwood
... smiled wanly: 'I mean to force myself to read Emma, by Miss Austen, till the desired effect ...
— The Disentanglers • Andrew Lang
... She smiled wanly, in response, and then sat upright moving her body, her arms, with an air of insuperable weariness. Her expression was dazed; but, instinctively, she rearranged ...
— Cytherea • Joseph Hergesheimer
... to Saxton's acting as agent for Claire as incompetent, irrelevant, immaterial, and no foundation laid. But he could not see just where he was being led, and with Saxton glowing at him as warmly and greasily as the mutton chops, Milt could only smile wanly, and reflectively feel the table leg to see if it was loose enough to jerk out ...
— Free Air • Sinclair Lewis
... the yellow light of the candle flickered wanly over the great front door Even as he looked at it, the door was pushed open, and a queer figure of a man stood framed against a background of glittering snow. ...
— Seven Keys to Baldpate • Earl Derr Biggers
... She smiled wanly and he rushed on with breathless intensity: "I'm not going to let you die. I won't—I tell you I won't. I'll fight this thing—and you've got ...
— The Southerner - A Romance of the Real Lincoln • Thomas Dixon
... Zones. Two thirds of the entire Past Division was being recalled and reassigned to a Condition 14 in the Twenty-Third—elimination of a teenage fad which was getting out of hand in North America. The Chief had smiled wanly as the young salesman shook hands and plunged ...
— The Amazing Mrs. Mimms • David C. Knight
... scarcely appreciable, yet after a time he opened his eyes and looked up wearily. At sight of the girl he smiled wanly, and tried to speak, but a fit of coughing flecked his lips with bloody foam, and again he closed his eyes. Fainter and fainter came his breathing, until it was with difficulty that the girl detected any movement of his breast whatever. She thought that he was dying, ...
— The Mucker • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... 'perhaps' in the afterward down here. We science grubbers on the outposts enlist for the term of the war," he said, smiling wanly. ...
— The Unspeakable Perk • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... go down there I am going, too!" she declared. "He might need some help," she added, seeing the objection in his eyes, "and if he does I may be able to give it to him. You know," she continued, smiling wanly, "I have had ...
— The Two-Gun Man • Charles Alden Seltzer
... wanly at these "memory pictures" and said she would always be able to remember the address of her mother's old friend ...
— The Moon Rock • Arthur J. Rees
... wanly, looking at me with fear and a twinkle of amusement, and intrigued interest, all at one and the same time, ...
— Tramping on Life - An Autobiographical Narrative • Harry Kemp
... wanly, "you'll muss them. I'm sorting, and I know you'll step in them. Everything ...
— The Beautiful and Damned • F. Scott Fitzgerald
... Library (Dom. A. 7) of the reign of Athelstan, in which the names of the chief benefactors of the Church of Lindisfarne are written in letters of gold and silver, which catalogue was afterwards continued, but not in the same manner (Wanly, 249). This is probably the same book which was published in 1841 by the Surtees Society, under the name of Liber Vitae Ecclesiae Dunelmensis. It contains the names of all the benefactors of St. Cuthbert's Church from its foundation, and lay constantly ...
— Purgatory • Mary Anne Madden Sadlier
... go by, An old lonely man, Crooked and furtive and slow. He laughs as he sees Time shambling by While he stands at his ease, Until Time smiles wanly back At ...
— Poems New and Old • John Freeman |
