wanness
IPA: wˈɑnʌs
noun
- The state of being wan; pallor.
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Examples of "wanness" in Sentences
- Such, then, is the cause of the wanness of my complexion.
- There appeared a wanness in the night, and Helena felt inexpressibly dreary.
- Since that little cloud was dispelled, all the temporary waste and wanness have vanished.
- Her clear blue eyes seemed to have grown bigger, her hair looked thicker from the wanness and thinness of her face.
- Strether stared at him with a little of the wanness, no doubt, that the vision of more to “make out” could scarce help producing.
- About his large bright eyes that used to be so merry there was a wanness and a restlessness that changed them altogether. 1 cannot use the expression that he looked old.
- Pallor adorneth him, as on their And pallor ornamenting brow latest nights, The moons as though with pallor still embellished 'Twere wanness such as waning thou mayst see. crescents show.
- She had suffered great humiliation at the hands of her brothers, there was still a certain wanness round her eyes, the remains of tears of anger and helpless indignation, and the bitterness of insulted sex.
- The animated expression of his countenance was unchanged; yet, when the first glow of joy had faded from it, and Ellena had leisure to observe its wanness, she understood, too certainly, that he had been a prisoner in the
- The more than usual wildness and wanness of his looks, with the whole of his conduct, seemed to confirm all her former terrors; and, when he roughly asked her how she did, Ellena had not sufficient presence of mind to answer that she was ill.
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