All 3 Uses of
melancholy
in
Brave New World
- Turning, with eyes a little saddened by the recollection, of Benito's curly blackness, she saw in a corner the small thin body, the melancholy face of Bernard Marx.†
p. 57..7
- But Henry's tone was almost, for a moment, melancholy.†
p. 75..3 *
- Pale, her blue eyes clouded with an unwonted melancholy, she sat in a corner, cut off from those who surrounded her by an emotion which they did not share.†
p. 173..9
Definition:
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(melancholy) a sad feeling or manner -- sometimes thoughtfully sad