Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Silently; with mute attention; earnestly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb obsolete Attentively; observingly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb obsolete In an
intent manner,intently ; with closeattention ,attentively
Etymologies
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Examples
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Goatsnose looked wistly upon him, and having heedfully enough viewed him all over, he lifted up into the air his left hand, the whole fingers whereof he retained fistwise close together, except the thumb and the forefinger, whose nails he softly joined and coupled to one another.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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At the very first Herr Trippa, looking on him very wistly in the face, said unto him: Thou hast the metoposcopy and physiognomy of a cuckold, — I say, of a notorious and infamous cuckold.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Goatsnose looked wistly upon him, and having heedfully enough viewed him all over, he lifted up into the air his left hand, the whole fingers whereof he retained fistwise close together, except the thumb and the forefinger, whose nails he softly joined and coupled to one another.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Panurge very wistly and heedfully looking upon him said,
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Panurge very wistly and heedfully looking upon him said,
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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At the very first Herr Trippa, looking on him very wistly in the face, said unto him: Thou hast the metoposcopy and physiognomy of a cuckold, — I say, of a notorious and infamous cuckold.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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The Goldsmith then seeming to look more wistly at him, _What, Mr. _
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And having travelled little less than a quarter of a league, we heard the noise of a little bell, an infallible argument that near at hand there was some cattle; whereupon, all of us looking very wistly to see whether anybody appeared, perceived under a cork tree a young shepherd, who very quietly and carelessly was carving of a stick with a knife.
The Fourth Book. XIV. Wherein the Captive Prosecuteth the Pleasant Narration of His Life 1909
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For our own parts we have reason thankfully to acknowledge, that it is somewhat a quiet time with us hitherto; but it is a troublous time in the world round about us; and too prone we are to stand at a gaze, as amazed persons wistly looking round about us; and having our eyes in the ends of the earth
The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI. 1630-1705 1822
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Those that would find the knowledge of Christ must stoop down, and look in, must with a humble heart submit to the authority of divine revelation, and must look wistly.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
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