"Wan" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... answer, but stared past her. Another figure was standing, erect and mournful, not far behind her. It was Joiwind. Her face was wan, and there was an accusing look in her eyes. Maskull knew that it was a phantasm, and that the real Joiwind ...
— A Voyage to Arcturus • David Lindsay
... cheek grows wan, And sorrow's shafts fly thicker, Ye Stars, that measure life to man, Why ...
— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 1 (of 4) • Various
... what you'd done me a real service, nephew," continued Uncle Israel. "Here I've been takin' this, month after month, an' never suspectin' what it was doin' in my insides. I've suspicioned for some time that the pain-killer wan't doin' me no good, an' I've been goin' to try Doctor Jones's Squaw Remedy, anyhow. I shouldn't wonder if my whole insides was green instead of red as they orter be. The next time I go to the City, I'm goin' to take ...
— At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern • Myrtle Reed
... lofty tiara of jewels, her white Ionic robe half hidden by a crimson shawl, there sat the vestal, the philosopher. What did she there? But the boy's eager eyes, accustomed but too well to note every light and shade of feeling which crossed that face, saw in a moment how wan and haggard was its expression. She wore a look of constraint, of half-terrified self-resolve, as of a martyr: and yet not an undoubting martyr; for as Orestes turned his head at the stir of Philammon's intrusion, and flashing with anger at the sight, motioned him fiercely back, ...
— Hypatia - or, New Foes with an Old Face • Charles Kingsley
... saw the ring and knew it, and waxed as wan as a dead woman, and she went home and spake no word the ...
— The Story of the Volsungs, (Volsunga Saga) - With Excerpts from the Poetic Edda • Anonymous
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