All 27 Uses of
melancholy
in
Bleak House
- The adjacent low-lying ground for half a mile in breadth is a stagnant river with melancholy trees for islands in it and a surface punctured all over, all day long, with falling rain.†
Chpt 1-3
- My birthday was the most melancholy day at home in the whole year.†
Chpt 1-3 *
- "Yet what a mockery it is, miss," he said with his hand upon his heart and shaking his head at me in a melancholy manner over the tray, "to be stationed behind food at such a moment.†
Chpt 7-9
- "This won't do, gentlemen!" says the coroner with a melancholy shake of the head.†
Chpt 10-12
- It is a coincidence," said Mr. Kenge with a tinge of melancholy in his smile, "one of those coincidences which may or may not require an explanation beyond our present limited faculties, that I have a cousin in the medical profession.†
Chpt 13-15
- He and Jo listen to the music, probably with much the same amount of animal satisfaction; likewise as to awakened association, aspiration, or regret, melancholy or joyful reference to things beyond the senses, they are probably upon a par.†
Chpt 16-18
- It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.†
Chpt 28-30
- Some melancholy influence is upon her, or why should so proud a lady close the doors and sit alone upon the hearth so desolate?†
Chpt 28-30
- He opened his mouth now a great many times and shook his head in a melancholy manner.†
Chpt 28-30
- All this and a great deal more the two gentlemen who have formed an amicable partnership in the melancholy catastrophe write down on the spot; and the boy population of the court (out of bed in a moment) swarm up the shutters of the Sol's Arms parlour, to behold the tops of their heads while they are about it.†
Chpt 31-33
- "My dear friends," whines Grandfather Smallweed, putting out both his hands, "I owe you a thousand thanks for discharging the melancholy office of discovering the ashes of Mrs. Smallweed's brother."†
Chpt 31-33
- G. B. is induced to do so at a considerable extra expense in consequence of a wish which has been very generally expressed at the bar by a large body of respectable individuals and in homage to a late melancholy event which has aroused so much sensation.†
Chpt 31-33
- 'Why, soldiers, why—should we be melancholy, boys?'†
Chpt 34-36
- I explained, as nearly as I could then, or can recall now—for my agitation and distress throughout were so great that I scarcely understood myself, though every word that was uttered in the mother's voice, so unfamiliar and so melancholy to me, which in my childhood I had never learned to love and recognize, had never been sung to sleep with, had never heard a blessing from, had never had a hope inspired by, made an enduring impression on my memory—I say I explained, or tried to do it,…†
Chpt 34-36
- The elder Mr. Turveydrop was in bed, I found, and Caddy was milling his chocolate, which a melancholy little boy who was an apprentice —it seemed such a curious thing to be apprenticed to the trade of dancing—was waiting to carry upstairs.†
Chpt 37-39
- Besides the melancholy boy, who, I hoped, had not been made so by waltzing alone in the empty kitchen, there were two other boys and one dirty little limp girl in a gauzy dress.†
Chpt 37-39
- They were all people in humble circumstances, and the melancholy boy's mother kept a ginger-beer shop.†
Chpt 37-39
- We danced for an hour with great gravity, the melancholy child doing wonders with his lower extremities, in which there appeared to be some sense of enjoyment though it never rose above his waist.†
Chpt 37-39
- Tony"—Mr. Guppy becomes mysteriously and tenderly eloquent—"it is necessary that I should impress upon your mind once more that circumstances over which I have no control have made a melancholy alteration in my most cherished plans and in that unrequited image which I formerly mentioned to you as a friend.†
Chpt 37-39
- But at all the dismal dinners, leaden lunches, basilisk balls, and other melancholy pageants, her mere appearance is a relief.†
Chpt 40-42
- "Like you, Esther, but useless, and so NOT like you!" said he with a melancholy smile.†
Chpt 43-45
- "Would you make the attempt, though single," says Mr. Snagsby in a melancholy whisper, "to speak as low as you can?†
Chpt 46-48
- Meanwhile she folds up a cocked hat for that redoubtable old general at Bath, descriptive of her melancholy condition.†
Chpt 52-54
- I have seen all sorts, and I have seen you pretty often in season and out of season, abroad and at home, and I never see you so melancholy penitent.'†
Chpt 55-57
- 'Why, Mrs. Bagnet,' says George, 'it's because I AM melancholy and penitent both, this afternoon, that you see me so.'†
Chpt 55-57
- We were again upon the melancholy road by which we had come, tearing up the miry sleet and thawing snow as if they were torn up by a waterwheel.†
Chpt 55-57
- I sat between them, at my dear girl's side, and felt very melancholy listening to her sweet voice.†
Chpt 58-60
Definition:
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(melancholy) a sad feeling or manner -- sometimes thoughtfully sad