Mr Tulliver Shows His Weaker Side "Suppose sister Glegg should call her money in; it 'ud be very awkward for you to have to raise five hundred pounds now," said Mrs Tulliver to her husband that evening, as she took a plaintive review of the day.
Did it change into the cry of the wind, plaintive at first, angrily shrill as it freshened, rising to a tearing whistle, sinking to a musical trickle of air from the leech of the bellying sail?
And the home had been happy with him, too, evidently, and was missing him, and wanted him back, and was telling him so, through his nose, sorrowfully, reproachfully, but with no bitterness or anger; only with plaintive reminder that it was there, and wanted him.
That night, when Marilla went up to the east gable, where a white-faced girl was lying, a plaintive voice greeted her from the bed.
Marilla herself, upon her return to the house, was agreeably surprised to hear a plaintive voice calling, "Marilla" over the banisters.
I suppose it was because Wendy knew this that her last words to him were these rather plaintive ones: "You won't forget me, Peter, will you, before spring cleaning time comes?
Wendy was now almost overhead, and they could hear her plaintive cry.
, and sing them to sleep with sweet, plaintive voices, and then kiss them good night, and kneel down by the bedside and weep.
With their plaintive calls, barbarian wildgeese fly from night to night, And children of the Tartars have many tears to shed; But we hear that the Jade Pass is still under siege, And soon we stake our lives upon our light warchariots.
thy plaintive anthem fades!
— Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago: Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of to-day?
" Her voice was a little plaintive.
A girl The color of lilacs, The fragrance of lilacs, The worries of lilacs, Feeling melancholy in the rain, Plaintive and hesitating.
Still the Sultan saw no one, till he heard a plaintive cry, and a voice which said, "Oh that I could die, for I am too unhappy to wish to live any longer!
her name uttered in a plaintive voice.
