All 47 Uses of
melancholy
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- It was worth while, truly," added the young man with a melancholy smile, "to make war against the English for ten years, and to die in his bed at last, like everybody else."†
Chpt 1-2
- He could not do this, he whose past life was so short, whose present so melancholy, and his future so doubtful.†
Chpt 15-16 *
- The stranger smiled a melancholy smile.†
Chpt 15-16
- The abbe was a man of the world, and had, moreover, mixed in the first society of the day; he wore an air of melancholy dignity which Dantes, thanks to the imitative powers bestowed on him by nature, easily acquired, as well as that outward polish and politeness he had before been wanting in, and which is seldom possessed except by those who have been placed in constant intercourse with persons of high birth and breeding.†
Chpt 17-18
- He seated himself on the edge of that terrible bed, and fell into melancholy and gloomy revery.†
Chpt 19-20
- The oval face was lengthened, his smiling mouth had assumed the firm and marked lines which betoken resolution; his eyebrows were arched beneath a brow furrowed with thought; his eyes were full of melancholy, and from their depths occasionally sparkled gloomy fires of misanthropy and hatred; his complexion, so long kept from the sun, had now that pale color which produces, when the features are encircled with black hair, the aristocratic beauty of the man of the north; the profound…†
Chpt 22-23
- Dantes listened to these melancholy tidings with outward calmness; but, leaping lightly ashore, he signified his desire to be quite alone.†
Chpt 25-26
- Between these sickly shrubs grew a scanty supply of garlic, tomatoes, and eschalots; while, lone and solitary, like a forgotten sentinel, a tall pine raised its melancholy head in one of the corners of this unattractive spot, and displayed its flexible stem and fan-shaped summit dried and cracked by the fierce heat of the sub-tropical sun.†
Chpt 25-26
- However well disposed a person may be, why you see we leave off after a time seeing persons who are in sorrow, they make one melancholy; and so at last old Dantes was left all to himself, and I only saw from time to time strangers go up to him and come down again with some bundle they tried to hide; but I guessed what these bundles were, and that he sold by degrees what he had to pay for his subsistence.†
Chpt 27-28
- Nothing had as yet occurred to shake Cocles' belief; the last month's payment had been made with the most scrupulous exactitude; Cocles had detected an overbalance of fourteen sous in his cash, and the same evening he had brought them to M. Morrel, who, with a melancholy smile, threw them into an almost empty drawer, saying:— "Thanks, Cocles; you are the pearl of cashiers."†
Chpt 29-30
- * Scott, of course: "The son of an ill-fated sire, and the father of a yet more unfortunate family, bore in his looks that cast of inauspicious melancholy by which the physiognomists of that time pretended to distinguish those who were predestined to a violent and unhappy death.†
Chpt 33-34
- After a brief silence, rendered still more solemn by the time and place, the count said, in a tone of melancholy wholly unlike his usual manner, "In order to bring this conversation to a fitting termination (the last we shall ever hold upon this subject), I will repeat to you some words I have heard from the lips of the Abbe Busoni.†
Chpt 45-46
- "But melancholy," interrupted Master Edward, snatching the feathers out of the tail of a splendid parroquet that was screaming on its gilded perch, in order to make a plume for his hat.†
Chpt 51-52
- She then added,—"This young madcap is, however, very nearly right, and merely re-echoes what he has heard me say with pain a hundred times; for Mademoiselle de Villefort is, in spite of all we can do to rouse her, of a melancholy disposition and taciturn habit, which frequently injure the effect of her beauty.†
Chpt 51-52
- "Ah, my time is not valuable," replied the man with a melancholy smile.†
Chpt 61-62
- "It is certainly ten years since the house had been occupied," said Chateau-Renaud, "and it was quite melancholy to look at it, with the blinds closed, the doors locked, and the weeds in the court.†
Chpt 63-64
- "I do not know whether the wine of Chios produces melancholy, but certainly everything appears to me black in this house," said Debray.†
Chpt 63-64
- Melancholy in a capitalist, like the appearance of a comet, presages some misfortune to the world.†
Chpt 65-66
- …coat, unexceptional in its cut, though simple and unornamented; it was not the plain white waistcoat; it was not the trousers, that displayed the foot so perfectly formed—it was none of these things that attracted the attention,—it was his pale complexion, his waving black hair, his calm and serene expression, his dark and melancholy eye, his mouth, chiselled with such marvellous delicacy, which so easily expressed such high disdain,—these were what fixed the attention of all upon him.†
Chpt 69-70
- I never was romantic, and am no melancholy hero.†
Chpt 73-74
- My father's melancholy state prevents our speaking to him on any subjects, which the weakness of his mind would incapacitate him from understanding, and I am perfectly convinced that at the present time, although, he knows that his granddaughter is going to be married, M. Noirtier has even forgotten the name of his intended grandson."†
Chpt 73-74
- Haidee answered his remark with a melancholy smile.†
Chpt 77-78
- Albert had often heard—not from his father, for he never spoke on the subject, but from strangers—the description of the last moments of the vizier of Yanina; he had read different accounts of his death, but the story seemed to acquire fresh meaning from the voice and expression of the young girl, and her sympathetic accent and the melancholy expression of her countenance at once charmed and horrified him.†
Chpt 77-78
- M. d'Avrigny answered by a melancholy smile.†
Chpt 79-80
- He approached the dying man, and, leaning over him with a calm and melancholy look, he whispered, "I am—I am"—And his almost closed lips uttered a name so low that the count himself appeared afraid to hear it.†
Chpt 83-84
- Then, seeing the young man was about to relapse into melancholy, "Let us go out, Albert," said he; "a ride in the wood in the phaeton, or on horseback, will refresh you; we will then return to breakfast, and you shall attend to your affairs, and I to mine."†
Chpt 83-84
- All night he was lulled by the melancholy noise of the surf.†
Chpt 85-86
- Every one had arrived almost before the usual hour, and was conversing on the melancholy event which was to attract the attention of the public towards one of their most illustrious colleagues.†
Chpt 85-86
- '—'I was, indeed,' said the stranger, with a tone of sweet melancholy, and with the sonorous voice peculiar to the East.†
Chpt 85-86
- Oh, Mercedes, I have uttered your name with the sigh of melancholy, with the groan of sorrow, with the last effort of despair; I have uttered it when frozen with cold, crouched on the straw in my dungeon; I have uttered it, consumed with heat, rolling on the stone floor of my prison.†
Chpt 89-90
- Ah, believe me, Edmond, as I told you, I too have suffered much; I repeat, it is melancholy to pass one's life without having one joy to recall, without preserving a single hope; but that proves that all is not yet over.†
Chpt 89-90
- "I am going on a journey, dear child," said Monte Cristo, with an expression of infinite tenderness and melancholy; "and if any misfortune should happen to me."†
Chpt 89-90
- A shade of melancholy gravity overspread his countenance, which was not natural to him.†
Chpt 89-90
- The Count of Monte Cristo bowed to the five young men with a melancholy and dignified smile, and got into his carriage with Maximilian and Emmanuel.†
Chpt 91-92
- He preserved his melancholy and motionless position for some time after his two friends had regained their carriage; then suddenly unfastening his horse from the little tree to which his servant had tied it, he mounted and galloped off in the direction of Paris.†
Chpt 91-92
- Ah, ha, ha!" she burst into a forced and melancholy laugh, her arms stiffened and twisted, her head fell back on her chair, and she remained motionless.†
Chpt 93-94
- But Monte Cristo looked at him with so melancholy and sweet a smile, that Maximilian felt the tears filling his eyes.†
Chpt 93-94
- Noirtier looked upon Morrel with one of those melancholy smiles which had so often made Valentine happy, and thus fixed his attention.†
Chpt 103-104
- During the night the undertakers had executed their melancholy office, and wrapped the corpse in the winding-sheet, which, whatever may be said about the equality of death, is at least a last proof of the luxury so pleasing in life.†
Chpt 103-104
- "I spoke to her once or twice at Madame de Morcerf's, among the rest; she appeared to me charming, though rather melancholy.†
Chpt 103-104
- Black figures are seen scattered over the long white avenues; the silence of earth and heaven is alone broken by the noise made by the crackling branches of hedges planted around the monuments; then follows the melancholy chant of the priests, mingled now and then with a sob of anguish, escaping from some woman concealed behind a mass of flowers.†
Chpt 105-106
- "My friend," said Monte Cristo, with an expression of melancholy equal to his own, "listen to me.†
Chpt 105-106
- "Oh, count." said Julie, "will you restore him to us cured of his melancholy?†
Chpt 111-112
- Listen to the voice of your heart, Morrel, and ask it whether you ought to preserve this melancholy exterior towards me.†
Chpt 111-112
- "Oh, look at me," continued she, with a feeling of profound melancholy, "my eyes no longer dazzle by their brilliancy, for the time has long fled since I used to smile on Edmond Dantes, who anxiously looked out for me from the window of yonder garret, then inhabited by his old father.†
Chpt 111-112
- A man of the count's temperament could not long indulge in that melancholy which can exist in common minds, but which destroys superior ones.†
Chpt 113-114
- "Is that Monte Cristo?" asked the traveller, to whose orders the yacht was for the time submitted, in a melancholy voice.†
Chpt 117
Definition:
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(melancholy) a sad feeling or manner -- sometimes thoughtfully sad