The Grapes of Wrath vocabulary

The wan mirrors get back their mimic life.

Oscar Wilde. The Picture of Dorian Gray

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I tom-peeped across the hedges of years, into wan little windows

Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita

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Her pretty face was wan and listless; her hair uncurled: some locks hanging lankly down, and some carelessly twisted round her head.

Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)

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she sat with her other hand on her crutch stick, and her chin on that, and her wan bright eyes glaring at me, a very spectre.

Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)

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He lay down low to the race, whining eagerly, his splendid body flashing forward, leap by leap, in the wan white moonlight.

Jack London. The Call of the Wild (1903)