There is a mystic plaintiveness about the sound of a violin on such an occasion.
"If Any Man Sin"
H. A. Cody
Listen to him while-and don't, oh, I say, don't stare at me like that,' he continued hurriedly, plaintiveness suddenly taking the place of grandiloquence.
"The Castle Inn"
Stanley John Weyman
"Well, here's Maurice Levy gone and seen part of the secrets," said Sam, in a voice of equal plaintiveness.
"Penrod and Sam"
Booth Tarkington