1 "I wouldn't ever have it said that I stood in the way of a poor girl like Mattie marrying a smart fellow like Denis Eady," Zeena answered in a tone of plaintive self-effacement.
2 The mockingbirds and the jays, engaged in their old feud for possession of the magnolia tree beneath her window, were bickering, the jays strident, acrimonious, the mockers sweet voiced and plaintive.
3 Uncle Peter's voice came as from a far distance, plaintive, placating.
4 It was a short, plaintive, minor strain.
5 When this recital of events was ended, his voice once more changed, and became plaintive and even musical, in its low guttural sounds.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 11 6 Their plaintive and terrific cry, which was intended to represent equally the wailings of the dead and the triumph to the victors, had entirely ceased.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 23 7 The woman was commencing a low and plaintive howl at the sad and shameful spectacle, when the chief put forth his hand and gently pushed her aside.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 23 8 The squaw gave a loud and plaintive yell, dashed the torch to the earth, and buried everything in darkness.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 23 9 The women and children, who lingered around the entrance, took up the words in an echo, which was succeeded by another shrill and plaintive howl.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 24 10 The hostess, who was busy in various fizzing and stewing operations over the fire, preparatory to the evening meal, stopped, with a fork in her hand, as Eliza's sweet and plaintive voice arrested her.
11 At the same moment a vague shadowy figure emerged from the gap for which they had been making, and uttered the plaintive signal cry again, on which a second man appeared out of the obscurity.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE 12 He wrote to Connie with the same plaintive melancholy note as ever, sometimes witty, and touched with a queer, sexless affection.
13 Throughout the blowing of these plaintive November winds that note bore a great resemblance to the ruins of human song which remain to the throat of fourscore and ten.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky 14 They sang the plaintive chant which follows the play, during which all the dead men rise to their feet in a silent and awful manner, like the ghosts of Napoleon's soldiers in the Midnight Review.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 2: 6 The Two Stand Face to Face 15 "Echo, plaintive nymph," hummed Grantaire.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFE MUSAIN