What is "wanly"

Usage examples of "wanly".

He 304 NEVER THE TWAIN SHALL MEET wadded a bill into a ball and tossed it in the pilot house window, smiled wanly and returned to his car.

One port framed Saturn at half phase, dayside pale gold and rich bands amidst the jewelry of its rings, night side wanly ashimmer with starlight upon clouds, as big to the sight as Earth over Luna.

One port framed Saturn at half phase, dayside pale gold and rich bands amidst the jewelry of its rings, nightside wanly ashimmer with starlight and moonlight upon clouds, as big to the sight as Earth over Luna.

Then came a wide gap in the range, where the hideous reaches of transmontane Leng were joined to the cold waste on this side by a low pass trough which the stars shone wanly.

Hu Shih smiled wanly just as the air whistle blew the call to a belated breakfast.

His gaze went straight to Andy, who was reclining wanly on the couch while Mary Jo arranged an icebag on his forehead.

From where she sat, Lissa could see over the scarred ground to the edge of the canyon and, beyond, wanly sheening amidst the gleam of water, the thing.

Rebuzzed, replacing a bolt on her thigh, she whistles in a high, shrill gulp of air, smiles wanly, then bursts into a high-frequency palaver, computerese elocution eventually hitting the cue of my own dialect.

Abruptly, they took each other's hand, smiled wanly and abashedly into the darkness, and each played with dancing fingers on the other's hand and arm.

Duffy glanced toward the prostrate Fisher King, who smiled wanly and held up two crossed fingers.

And when I failed to, and hopscotched back again around dawn, it was still peering wanly out behind the tan shade.

Hari smiled wanly as Cleon spoke to an adjutant, giving instructions for a fresh Imperial Decree.

The zodiacal lens was immense, though wanly lit, but the disc was featureless - no spots, flares, prominences, corona - and had no sharp photospheric edge, fading instead blurrily away into space.