All 5 Uses of
melancholy
in
The Age of Innocence
- Newland, who had long shared his wonder, could always detect it in the older man's expression of melancholy disapproval.†
Chpt 5
- Nevertheless, he was always stimulated by Winsett, and whenever he caught sight of the journalist's lean bearded face and melancholy eyes he would rout him out of his corner and carry him off for a long talk.†
Chpt 14
- It was useless to prolong the discussion: everybody knew the melancholy fate of the few gentlemen who had risked their clean linen in municipal or state politics in New York.†
Chpt 14 *
- The melancholy possibility of having to "kill time" (especially for those who did not care for whist or solitaire) was a vision that haunted her as the spectre of the unemployed haunts the philanthropist.†
Chpt 22
- They had this melancholy retreat to themselves, and seated on the divan enclosing the central steam-radiator, they were staring silently at the glass cabinets mounted in ebonised wood which contained the recovered fragments of Ilium.†
Chpt 31
Definition:
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(melancholy) a sad feeling or manner -- sometimes thoughtfully sad