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• It was a heavy, melancholy day. (4)
• It is rather melancholy though. (10)
• When is she dejected or melancholy? (4)
• Dr. Shrapnel was even more melancholy. (10)
• He made show of melancholy submission. (10)
• The apology makes it a melancholy part. (10)
• He did not answer, and became melancholy. (12)
• I have a slight inclination to melancholy. (10)
• She was looking beautiful; a trifle melancholy. (10)
• His mood inclined to melancholy and retrospection. (8)
• He is not melancholy or thoughtful or hollow-eyed. (12)
• The descent from that was naturally to melancholy. (10)
• That is because prose is equal to melancholy stuff. (10)
• And with that melancholy conclusion he had nodded off. (8)
• It writes the melancholy scrawl Of wreckage over sea. (10)
• There is, however, a melancholy side to this picture. (19)
• I noticed that when her voice was not melancholy her face was. (10)
• The gloom and melancholy which beset me, momentarily increased. (6)
• The winter in these uplands is a dangerous and melancholy time. (2)
• My eyes are the colour of burned wine; in them lives melancholy. (8)
• The evening of this day was very long, and melancholy, at Hartfield. (4)
• His tone was tender and melancholy, and his phrases gently expressive. (3)
• No longings, no melancholy; one ought to be out, this beautiful morning! (8)
• Oh, the long, dreary hours of that melancholy day; it seemed like a year. (6)
• The voice of one hawking strawberries drifted melancholy from a side street. (8)
• Hence an unusual melancholy in his tone that Mrs. Mountstuart thought touching. (10)
• Saddlebank, however, put on such a pace that no one had leisure for melancholy. (10)
• To have such a fine young man cut off in the flower of his days is most melancholy. (4)
• You are in a melancholy humour, and fancy that any one unlike yourself must be happy. (4)
• The heavy laboring of the groaning tent adds to the feeling of misery and melancholy. (21)
• The melancholy severity of that song of death changed to a song of prophetic triumph. (10)
• A soft melancholy for his own disappointment imparted itself to his thoughts of Cynthia. (9)
• Where she could be placed became a subject of most melancholy and momentous consultation. (4)
• The former glanced at the contrariety of man, the latter embraced his melancholy destiny. (10)
• It must have been very melancholy, but nothing could deeply cloud his most cheerful spirit. (9)
• He ought not to be melancholy like this and let anything prevent the sea from doing him good. (8)
• Papa, if you speak in that melancholy way, you will be giving Isabella a false idea of us all. (4)
• Acting (as it was his nature to do off the stage), he had not exaggerated his profound melancholy. (10)
• For two hours in that melancholy room he tried to master himself, then dressed solemnly for dinner. (8)
• Her subsiding young excitement of the day set her Boating on that moony melancholy in Mr. Peridon. (10)
• Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy, and her occupations were hopeful. (4)
• He fancied himself at the Zoological Gardens, exchanging pathetic glances with a melancholy marmoset. (10)
• There was such melancholy in her heart that she cast herself into all the flippancy with abandonment. (10)
• Faith the moment I said these words he gave another groan, deeper and more melancholy like than before. (6)
• He had a pleasing face and a melancholy air, just as he ought to have, and drew back from conversation. (4)
• Before that, she had been cheerful and careless; now she was melancholy, and haunted the streets no more. (12)
• Those hours in the baking sun had drawn virtue out of them; they were silent and melancholy all the evening. (8)
• Before the ghost walked he was an elementary hero; one puff of action would have whiffed away his melancholy. (10)
• But I was in a melancholy and desponding mist of mind, and I snatched myself back out of it to manlier thoughts. (14)
• His music is marked by great originality and fertility of invention, but tinged with a spirit of melancholy and gloom. (3)
• Through all his melancholy and munificence he was aware of sordid anxieties for having taken the Grosvenor Green apartment. (9)
• Mrs. Mel understands her son and his state of mind well enough not to insist, and is resigned to the melancholy consequence. (10)
• And he paced up and down the garden, where the wind was melancholy in the boughs of the walnut-tree that had lost all its leaves. (8)
• The careless good humor that had prompted him to accept the trust of the dead man had given place to a fixed habit of melancholy. (1)
• And, worse, she had betrayed most melancholy signs of sourness and agedness as soon as he had sworn himself to her fast and fixed. (10)
• How far I should blame myself for this, I stopped not to consider; but brooded over the fact in a melancholy and discontented mood. (6)
• His passive face and large melancholy eyes were wonderfully beautiful, and inspired even his mother with a feeling of awe and respect. (5)
• He let a soft, mysterious melancholy pervade his letter; he hinted darkly at trouble and sorrow of which he could not definitely speak. (9)
• All places that fashion has once loved and abandoned are very melancholy; but of all such places, I think the Battery is the most forlorn. (9)
• It was a most fortunate accident as it diverted the attention of Sophia from the melancholy reflections which she had been before indulging. (4)
• It was very melancholy, very touching, but the sorrow to which he had come home from his long journey had not that forlorn bewilderment in it. (9)
• A slight melancholy little burst; and then a louder one, followed by a full-toned laughter that fell short and showed the heart was not in it. (10)
• Lesley is at present but five and twenty, and has already given himself up to melancholy and Despair; what a difference between him and his Father! (4)
• It grew dark, but she did not draw the curtains; the sight of the windy moonlit garden and the leaves driving across brought a melancholy distraction. (8)
• In hopes of releiving my melancholy, by directing my thoughts to other objects, they have invited several of their freinds to spend the Christmas with us. (4)
• The little ground-doves mimic in miniature the form and markings and the gait and mild behavior of our turtle-doves, but perhaps not their melancholy cooing. (9)
• Heavy Benson was told to anticipate the demand for pardon, and practised in his mind the most melancholy Christian deportment he could assume on the occasion. (10)

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