All 14 Uses of
melancholy
in
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit.
Chpt 2 *melancholy = sadness
- The boy's soul was steeped in melancholy; his feelings were in happy accord with his surroundings.†
Chpt 8
- And then there came, mingling with his half-formed dreams, a most melancholy caterwauling.†
Chpt 9
- Yet notwithstanding all this, the boy grew more and more melancholy and pale and dejected.†
Chpt 12
- Huck was melancholy, too.†
Chpt 16
- In the afternoon Becky Thatcher found herself moping about the deserted schoolhouse yard, and feeling very melancholy.†
Chpt 17
- Becky resumed her picture inspections with Alfred, but as the minutes dragged along and no Tom came to suffer, her triumph began to cloud and she lost interest; gravity and absent-mindedness followed, and then melancholy; two or three times she pricked up her ear at a footstep, but it was a false hope; no Tom came.†
Chpt 18
- "Friendship" was one; "Memories of Other Days"; "Religion in History"; "Dream Land"; "The Advantages of Culture"; "Forms of Political Government Compared and Contrasted"; "Melancholy"; "Filial Love"; "Heart Longings," etc., etc. A prevalent feature in these compositions was a nursed and petted melancholy; another was a wasteful and opulent gush of "fine language"; another was a tendency to lug in by the ears particularly prized words and phrases until they were worn entirely out; and a…†
Chpt 21
- A prevalent feature in these compositions was a nursed and petted melancholy; another was a wasteful and opulent gush of "fine language"; another was a tendency to lug in by the ears particularly prized words and phrases until they were worn entirely out; and a peculiarity that conspicuously marked and marred them was the inveterate and intolerable sermon that wagged its crippled tail at the end of each and every one of them.†
Chpt 21
- Then arose a slim, melancholy girl, whose face had the "interesting" paleness that comes of pills and indigestion, and read a "poem."†
Chpt 21
- When he got upon his feet at last and moved feebly down-town, a melancholy change had come over everything and every creature.†
Chpt 22
- Huck was sitting on the gunwale of a flatboat, listlessly dangling his feet in the water and looking very melancholy.†
Chpt 27
- Aunt Polly had drooped into a settled melancholy, and her gray hair had grown almost white.†
Chpt 32
- Huck's face lost its tranquil content, and took a melancholy cast.†
Chpt 35
Definition:
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(melancholy) a sad feeling or manner -- sometimes thoughtfully sad