Desire smiled too, wanly and without the least approach to mirth.
Don Jaime went at once to the side of the wanly smiling matador.
"Not less than a table d'hote will hold you," Charity smiled, wanly.
But the shields were now wanly gleaming and the sky was the sky of night.
"You'd better take out the piano again," said Mrs. Brown wanly.
And then, wanly grateful: "You are not the sort of man who lies convincingly, Steve."
Rosa baked a fine cake for him, decorating it tastefully with nine pink candles, but Wilbur regarded it wanly.
"That's good," he said wanly, and he had a moment of physical dizziness that decided him to sit down quickly.
"I am very much discouraged over Mr. Bradlaugh," she admitted, wanly.
She smiled at him, wanly, yet with a brazen coquettishness become habit.
Old English wann "dark, lacking luster," later "leaden, pale, gray," of uncertain origin, and not found in other Germanic languages. The connecting notion is colorlessness. Perhaps related to wane.
