Meanings of very wan in английском

He looked at her and smiled, but it was a very wan and wistful smile.

Ishmael smiled a very wan smile as he answered:

On the other side, the moon, very wan still, floated in the pale-blue all around it.

He looked very wan in his great armchair.

Her face was still pale and very wan, but the strained look had utterly passed away.

He had shaved recently, and his face, besides being altogether colorless, seemed very wan and pinched.

She had clung to his arm with a tragic forlornness that seemed to leave her very wan and helpless.

Her face was very wan.

She looked very wan and fragile sitting there; whatever the truth, he could not but feel deeply sorry for her.

Lady Maulevrier looked very wan and tired in the bright morning light, when Mr. Hammond seated himself beside her sofa.

Her face was perilously near him; it was very wan and beautiful in the auroral light-Ootahfelt his heart beat wildly.

Her pride and gaiety had left her now, and she looked very wan through frequent weeping, and very thin from nursing.

She was a thin, or rather meager, person, very wan in the countenance, had no nose and many pimples in her face.

She spent a day in the big log chair before Hilliard's hearth, looking very wan, shrinking from speech, her soft mouth gray and drawn.

"A mouth isn't much to go by," she observed, with a very wan smile.

"But where is Jocelyn?" cried Galliard again, and his haggard face looked very wan and white as he turned it inquiringly upon his companion.