Definition of "wistly" [wist•ly]

• In an intent manner, intently; with close attention, attentively (adverb)

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• "Panurge very wistly and heedfully looking upon him said,"
• "Goatsnose looked wistly upon him, and having heedfully enough viewed him all over, he lifted up into the air his left hand, the whole fingers whereof he retained fistwise close together, except the thumb and the forefinger, whose nails he softly joined and coupled to one another."
• "At the very first Herr Trippa, looking on him very wistly in the face, said unto him: Thou hast the metoposcopy and physiognomy of a cuckold, — I say, of a notorious and infamous cuckold."