Synonyms:
wistfully
Meaning: in a wistful manner; "his sister would have looked beautiful in that dress, he thought wistfully, just like an angel"
Usage examples
He looked at me wistfully, wagging his tail.
"Don't you want me to go with you?" asked Button-Bright, a little wistfully.
"I mean it would fall down," said the monk, looking wistfully into the void.
"I wish I could have a sail in the Butterfly again," said Sylvia, a little wistfully.
"Half an hour," she said, looking wistfully out to sea, "half an hour more and you'll be far from me, Armand!
'You see,' said Mr. Dick, wistfully, 'if I could exert myself, Mr. Traddles--if I could beat a drum--or blow anything!'
'Must you really go back to that dreadful place?' she asked wistfully. 'You are the only man who has ever come back from it.'
She could not help growing pale and thin however, and Papa saw with concern that, as the summer went on, she became too languid to read, or study, or sew, and just sat hour after hour, with folded hands, gazing wistfully out of the window.
But poor Onawandah had waited too long; now he could only look up into the dear, loving, little face bent over him, and whisper wistfully: "Wild Rose will remember Onawandah?" as the light went out of his eyes, and his last breath was a smile for her.