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"There was Peg Barney sittin' on the groun' in his shirt - wan shoe off an' wan shoe on - whackin' a tent-peg over the head wid his boot, an' singin' fit to wake the dead.

A few rays of light, a wan, sinister light, that seemed to have been stolen from an expiring luminary, fell through some opening or other upon an old tower that raised its pasteboard battlements on the stage; everything, in this deceptive light, adopted a fantastic shape.

And to and fro, and in and out, The wan stars danced between.

Through it one could confusedly distinguish the front of Notre-Dame, and the decrepit Hôtel-Dieu with some wan invalids gazing down from the heights of its roof all checkered with dormer windows.

Or his face is far too wan, Or there is that written in his eyes

His wan features wore a look of a tiny, insane demon.

That was about wan week, so far as Counahan remembered.

And truly when the stars go out and the wan day peeps into the turret-chamber, finding him at his oldest, he looks as if the digger and the spade were both commissioned and would soon be digging.

El Greco was the painter of the soul; and these gentlemen, wan and wasted, not by exhaustion but by restraint, with their tortured minds, seem to walk unaware of the beauty of the world; for their eyes look only in their hearts, and they are dazzled by the glory of the unseen.

I made the best of it, but I felt wan. "It depends on what you call `much'!"

He would stand still for hours: but never sat or leaned; his wan but wondrous eyes did plainly say --We two watchmen never rest.

She had sunk into one of the golden thrones, and as I turned to her she greeted me with a wan smile.