plaintive

She began to step backward toward the door, when something about her plaintive face attracted him.

Possibly picking up the scent of her young, she let out a high-pitched, plaintive whine.

There was no ill-fitting glove, no dream team, no slow-motion car chase, and no plaintive wail of a dog.

Years is a song, a plaintive, the songs, there is no one at the beginning and end of the song.

The hostess stopped, with a fork in her hand, as Eliza's sweet and plaintive voice arrested her.

He concluded his plaintive melody, a very simple performance, demanding no great skill; and she waited, thinking another might be begun.

" Kun, please don't do stupid is good? Look at the son's sake, you listen to me for once. " Xiaoqing plaintive at Cheng Yakun.

He wrote to Connie with the same plaintive melancholy note as ever, sometimes witty, and touched with a queer, sexless affection.

The young animal rubbed its head contentedly against Heidi's shoulder, and no longer gave such plaintive bleats.

They appeared on camera one at a time, in a dimly lit room, and their tone was earnest and plaintive.

We heard a plaintive whimpering coming from the kitchen-it' s was the dog, who'd been locked in.

Conversations with Russian officials often end with the plaintive question: "What have we done that you haven't done? "

For the season grows heavy with its fullness, and there is a plaintive shepherd's pipe in the shade.

For the season grows heavy with its fulness, and there is a plaintive shepherd's pipe in the shade.

The snow had ceased, and a flash of watery sunlight exposed the house on the slope above us in all its plaintive ugliness.

The ex-communist countries of Europe realise that it hurts their cause to sound plaintive, needy or nostalgic.

With the release of their plaintive, passionate letters, cinema's epic lovebirds can finally have their encore.

A dead bulb, shaken close to the ear, made a tiny, plaintive music.

There was a plaintive wail from the sofa: "What about me? "

The university's economists have long made a plaintive request to their state: diversify. That plea is suddenly more urgent.

she kept this faint smile even when singing plaintive songs . i ' m a sucker for this kind of thing and the tears rolled.

"Why, Mikey, why? " Her voice was a plaintive whisper.

The destruction of love under such surroundings was repeated by Kong. His style of writing was plaintive and sympathized.

The evening star will come out when my voyage is done and the plaintive notes of the twilight melodies be struck up from the King's gateway.

plaintive: Expressing sorrow; mournful or melancholy.

but the words sounded like a plaintive , despairing cry and prayer for forgiveness.

The plaintive song of the humpback whale can travel for great distances underwater.

Tude has thought of Dai Wangshu plaintive confused as to which the Dream of the Rain Lane.

Last week Senator Pete Domenici, a Republican, issued a plaintive appeal for "more oil and lower prices" .

From somewhere in the woods beyond the pond, the plaintive calls of geese honked and died away.

Regardless cold wind array and the cold rain is plaintive, I also hear my warm heart sounds clearly sincere beating.

Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow for old, unhappy, far-off things.

Sometimes we could leave a plaintive message on voice mail, but few were returned.

the common European wild dove noted for its plaintive cooing.

A complaint uttered in a plaintive tone.

Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades.

asked Isabella in the plaintive tone which just suited her father.

and sing them to sleep with sweet, plaintive voices, and then kiss them good night and kneel down by the bedside and weep.

One particular bark, which has a telltale plaintive squeak to it, features more and more frequently.

A long plaintive wail emanated from the cardboard box.

Its efforts to struggle getting smaller and smaller, has become a plaintive whine kuang kong, is very zhun gu.

To utter or emit a long, mournful, plaintive sound.

His plaintive protests did him no good.

The song has plaintive melody.

Much of the content of the sentences is plaintive , so that is part of the pull for me.

I heard a plaintive cry.

She passed and repassed Catherine's door several times in the course of the evening, as if she expected to hear a plaintive moan behind it

crazy for her plaintive and touching novels and TV plays

thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream, Up the hillside;

Whimper refers to low, plaintive broken or repressed cries, as those made by a child:

The plaintive cries of the child

Confucian Morality and Chinese Literature of Plaintive Mentality

Lonesome emphasizes a plaintive desire for companionship:

Now is the time of plaintive robin-song,

You're like a plaintive melody

The plaintive song of the old piano