All 8 Uses of
melancholy
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- Inward melancholy it was impossible for a man like Oak, introspective far beyond his neighbours, to banish quite, whilst conning the present untoward page of his history.†
Chpt 4-6 *
- If I thought after I'd left that music was still playing, and I not there, I should be quite melancholy-like."†
Chpt 7-9
- Mr. Fray here drew up his features to the mild degree of melancholy required when the persons involved in the given misfortune do not belong to your own family.†
Chpt 10-12
- "And she don't even let ye have the skins of the dead lambs, I hear?" resumed Joseph Poorgrass, his eyes lingering on the operations of Oak with the necessary melancholy.†
Chpt 13-15
- Cainy Ball turned the handle of Gabriel's grindstone, his head performing a melancholy see-saw up and down with each turn of the wheel.†
Chpt 19-21
- In juxtaposition with Troy, Oak had a melancholy tendency to look like a candle beside gas, and ill at ease, he went out again, thinking he would go home; for, under the circumstances, he had no heart for the scene in the barn.†
Chpt 34-36
- Joseph drank for a moderately long time, then for a longer time, saying, as he lowered the jug, " 'tis pretty drinking—very pretty drinking, and is more than cheerful on my melancholy errand, so to speak it."†
Chpt 40-42
- The autumn wore away gloomily enough amid these melancholy conjectures, and Christmas-day came, completing a year of her legal widowhood, and two years and a quarter of her life alone.†
Chpt 55-57
Definition:
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(melancholy) a sad feeling or manner -- sometimes thoughtfully sad