All 17 Uses of
melancholy
in
David Copperfield
- 'Quite as comfortable as we can expect a young mother to be, under these melancholy domestic circumstances.†
Chpt 1-3 *
- The despairing way in which my mother and I look at each other, as I blunder on, is truly melancholy.†
Chpt 4-6
- I was very much shocked to hear of this melancholy accident, and said I thought I had better have some water.†
Chpt 4-6
- What evenings, when the candles came, and I was expected to employ myself, but, not daring to read an entertaining book, pored over some hard-headed, harder-hearted treatise on arithmetic; when the tables of weights and measures set themselves to tunes, as 'Rule Britannia', or 'Away with Melancholy'; when they wouldn't stand still to be learnt, but would go threading my grandmother's needle through my unfortunate head, in at one ear and out at the other!†
Chpt 7-9
- When I saw them glancing at me out of the windows, as they went up to their classes, I felt distinguished, and looked more melancholy, and walked slower.†
Chpt 7-9
- I remember how I seemed to float, then, down the melancholy glory of that track upon the sea, away into the world of dreams.†
Chpt 13-15
- 'I am convinced,' said my aunt, laying her hand with melancholy firmness on the table, 'that Dick's character is not a character to keep the donkeys off.†
Chpt 22-24
- Dora was at the breakfast-table to make the tea again, however; and I had the melancholy pleasure of taking off my hat to her in the phaeton, as she stood on the door-step with Jip in her arms.†
Chpt 25-27
- To divert his thoughts from this melancholy subject, I informed Mr. Micawber that I relied upon him for a bowl of punch, and led him to the lemons.†
Chpt 28-30
- It was between nine and ten o'clock when, strolling in a melancholy manner through the town, I stopped at Mr. Omer's door.†
Chpt 31-33
- Leaving them together, I went home to Peggotty's; more melancholy myself, if possible, than I had been yet.†
Chpt 31-33
- As he said this with a gentle melancholy, which was the next thing to making no charge at all, I expressed my acknowledgements on Peggotty's behalf, and paid Tiffey in banknotes.†
Chpt 31-33
- 'What a melancholy confirmation: ain't it?†
Chpt 40-42
- There were neither wharves nor houses on the melancholy waste of road near the great blank Prison.†
Chpt 46-48
- He occasionally made an attempt to smarten himself, and hum the fag-end of a tune; but his relapses into profound melancholy were only made the more impressive by the mockery of a hat exceedingly on one side, and a shirt-collar pulled up to his eyes.†
Chpt 49-51
- Mrs. Chillip's opinion is, that her spirit has been entirely broken since her marriage, and that she is all but melancholy mad.†
Chpt 58-60
- Though "remote", we are neither "unfriended", "melancholy", nor (I may add) "slow".†
Chpt 63-64
Definition:
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(melancholy) a sad feeling or manner -- sometimes thoughtfully sad