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Meanings of so wan in English

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Usage of so wan in English
1
He lifted a face so wan, so altered, that the doctor started.
Hetty's Strange History
2
She looked so wan and wild that I pitied her greatly.
The Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance
3
By the river, Ngoc is sleeping, so wan he resembles a pressed flower.
The Guardian
4
But so wan their aspect now, their faces looked like skulls.
Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I
5
Only within the folds of a shroud have I ever seen so wan a face.
Rodney Stone
6
By the way, why are you looking so wan if she is beautiful and kind?
Lazarre
7
There was something so wan and melancholy in its appearance that his high anticipations rapidly faded.
The Moon Rock
8
For one thing they were sure the child was dead, the little face looked so wan.
Chatterbox, 1906
9
He looked suddenly so wan and defeated when I said this that I felt sorry for him.
The Complete Short Stories Vol. 1
10
That was the reason he looked so wan and wilted-thatand the anxious thoughts about his mother.
Shenac's Work at Home
11
I am so pale and so wan.
Love All The People
12
Why so wan and pale, fond lover?
Hyperion
13
A sudden chill crept through the young man's blood,-therewas something so wan and mournful in her expression.
Innocent : her fancy and his fact
14
When he came home at last, his mother's heart was broken to see him so wan and changed.
Twenty Years at Hull House; with Autobiographical Notes
15
Half an hour afterward Violet comes into the room, so wan and changed that yesterday seems a month ago.
Floyd Grandon's Honor
16
Why so wan, pale persona?
Dayworld Breakup
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