Слово "wan". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

I have told you that she had only recently recovered from an illness, and was looking so wretchedly pale and wan that I remonstrated with her for being at work.

Langdon gave a wan nod and counted himself lucky.

A strange band we were, huddled there together in the gallery with wan faces; the children strangely quiet and an ominous heavy look about their hollow eyes.

The grass was scattered with the fallen leaves, but their wan decay little served to give a touch of nature to the artifice of all besides.

Ahead, in the wan rays of the rising sun, mist was rising high above the gorge.

Rachel gave a wan nod, not entirely convinced.

It had been nice of her to tell him in her queer, French way that she had been good friends with John; his heart wanned to her for that.

When a door, at length, closed upon her, my glance sought instinctively and eagerly the countenance of the brother; but he had buried his face in his hands, and I could only perceive that a far more than ordinary wanness had overspread the emaciated fingers through which trickled many passionate tears.

It was a dim, wan sun.