"It really is a most beautiful country," the Captain spoke wistfully, as though he knew it was being lost.

A lot of folks whom I talk to speak wistfully about what they would do if they were "in charge."

The boy still speaks wistfully about the candy bar.

Once or twice he even spoke wistfully of fishing in the small nearby stream.

"It has been ever so since the beginning of time," he spoke wistfully.

Now grandchildren of those migrants speak wistfully of the place their families came from.

Farmers still speak wistfully of 1978, when the state produced 135 million pounds.

Hotel employees speak wistfully of the time when mostly foreigners came.

He speaks wistfully of his days singing in a high school rock band.

Another park employee spoke almost wistfully about going home, having "a few cold ones," and watching the fireworks.