All 7 Uses of
melancholy
in
Anna Karenina
- "But how, Alexey, tell me how?" she said in melancholy mockery at the hopelessness of her own position.†
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- But on the other hand Varenka, alone in the world, without friends or relations, with a melancholy disappointment in the past, desiring nothing, regretting nothing, was just that perfection of which Kitty dared hardly dream.†
Part 2
- Only it's melancholy, very melancholy here.†
Part 2
- Only it's melancholy, very melancholy here.†
Part 2
- The ironical light died away in her eyes, but a different smile, a consciousness of something, he did not know what, and of quiet melancholy, came over her face.†
Part 4
- He looked with weary and melancholy eyes at the bride and bridegroom, sighed, and putting his right hand out from his vestment, blessed the bridegroom with it, and also with a shade of solicitous tenderness laid the crossed fingers on the bowed head of Kitty.†
Part 5
- "Oh, I've got over that, Darya Dmitrievna," he answered, and a melancholy and serious expression suddenly came over his face.†
Part 5
Definition:
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(melancholy) a sad feeling or manner -- sometimes thoughtfully sad