plaintive-looking

Updated: May 31, 2025

This was something to look at, and the excited boys shouted, cheered, and gave forth remark after remark such as must have been painful to the dignity of the melancholy-looking beast, which kept on turning its half-closed, plaintive-looking eyes at the noisy groups, wincing and seeming to protest against the unkindly and insulting remarks. "Oh, I say, isn't he a beauty?" cried one.

George Manville Fenn - Glyn Severn's Schooldays