Word: wistfully
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...come to help him; and lo, to a saying of the young man that the garlands that deck the feast are of exceeding beauty, she respondeth that without the snow is falling, and of a verity it was falling, for the day was exceeding cold, and the young man wist not how it was. And behold, when the young man pauseth for breath doth she make a sound of singing, and the song is such as no man ever heard before. And now doth she ask the young man if his years are many, for she guesseth that...