wistful-eyed

A wolfish head, wistful-eyed and frost-rimed, thrust aside the tent-flaps.

GRIT OF WOMEN 2010

It was late in the afternoon and Peace and Allee were standing by the window watching the sinking sun, when a ragged, stooped, old man trailed down the quiet street with a battered, wheezy, old hand-organ strapped to his back and a wizened, wistful-eyed, peaked-faced child at his heels.

The Lilac Lady Ruth Alberta Brown

The butcher's and fishmonger's boys going their rounds, the policeman on his beat, the postman wearily footing it, the daily governess returning from her morning's occupation, had become used to his appearance there; and he watched each one going upon his or her business, wistful-eyed.

A Sheaf of Corn Mary E. Mann

He did not, as a rule, shake hands with servant-maids, but was not this fair-haired, wistful-eyed girl some relative, friend or companion of Shiela's? and had he not already begun to lose all perception of the incongruous or the absurd in the strange pervading charm with which Sheila's presence filled the place?

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 Various

He knew that all his days this same dream would be before his eyes, this wistful-eyed, tender girl, this lovely flower of the

The Snowshoe Trail Edison Marshall 1930

He had been a sober, wistful-eyed little boy, bearing bravely the whole tragic weight upon his own small shoulders.

The Snowshoe Trail Edison Marshall 1930

But for "Davie," the desk-man, who it turned out was also to be my room-mate, and a few wistful-eyed negroes in the steel-barred room in the center of the building, the station was deserted.

Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers Harry Alverson Franck 1921

BROTHER is excellent, a wistful-eyed, shabby youth who really looks convincingly ill and coughs in a way to carry conviction.

Jane Journeys On Ruth Comfort Mitchell 1918

The Avenue Girl grew better with each day, but remained wistful-eyed.

Love Stories Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

There were the Japanese women; beautiful, graceful, red-cheeked, small of stature, wistful-eyed, colorfully dressed; always smiling slaves to their men.

Flash-lights from the Seven Seas Francis John McConnell 1917