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  • To his eyes all seemed beautiful, but to me a tinge of melancholy lay upon the country-side   (source)
  • Grantaire was drinking in a melancholy way.   (source)
    melancholy = sad (perhaps depressed)
  • Alice replied in a very melancholy voice.   (source)
    melancholy = sad
  • "Now her ghost wheels her barrow through the streets broad and narrow, singing cockles and mussels, alive, alive-o." It seemed to Kya that when Chase played these melancholy tunes was when he most had a soul.†   (source)
  • The euphoria, the overwhelming sense of relief, that had initially accompanied my return to Petersburg faded, and an unexpected melancholy took its place.†   (source)
  • Why set down such melancholy events?†   (source)
  • Lincoln was melancholy to begin with, and if any place invoked a smile, surely it wouldn't be a stone's throw away from the place where someone shot him in the head.†   (source)
  • A melancholy smile came to his lips.†   (source)
  • Chiron gave me a melancholy smile.†   (source)
  • It was one of his favorites, Pac's voice defiant over the melancholy chorus sampled from the Five Stairsteps—"Ooh, child, things are gonna get easier.†   (source)
  • A chimpanzee is like a smaller, leaner gorilla, but meaner-looking, with less of the melancholy gentleness of its larger cousin.†   (source)
  • Where it caught the porch glow through the window it was bathed in a pale-gold, melancholy light.†   (source)
  • It was Laila's turn now, with Mariam pitching in, to take up the chattering, to laugh nervously, to fill the melancholy quiet with breathless, aimless banter-Later, after Rasheed had dropped them off and taken a bus to work, Laila watched Aziza wave good-bye and scuff along the wall in the orphanage back lot.†   (source)
  • All is thick and melancholy gloom.†   (source)
  • Sophie's voice caught, and Langdon heard a sudden melancholy there, a painful past, simmering just below the surface.†   (source)
  • I daydreamed a lot about the sycamore tree, too, which at first I thought was because I was feeling melancholy.†   (source)
  • His voice tender, almost melancholy.†   (source)
  • Melancholy seeped into his brain with her words, stuck to them like syrup.†   (source)
  • The rage mingled with the general melancholy that had been growing in her steadily since the bombing of Pearl Harbor; it was one of the rare times in Fujiko's adult life when she felt inconsolable.†   (source)
  • The first ghost, Marley's Ghost, was a terrible ham from the Gravesend Academy English Department; Mr. Early embraced every part that Dan gave him as if he were King Lear—madness and tragedy fueled his every action, a wild melancholy spilled from him in disgusting fits and seizures.†   (source)
  • I heard melancholy snores.†   (source)
  • A face had been carved in the trunk of the great tree, its features long and melancholy, the deep-cut eyes red with dried sap and strangely watchful.†   (source)
  • They were gentle and lilting, these sighs, and despite their melancholy Reynie loved to hear them.†   (source)
  • There were more prayers, a psalm, the Lord's Prayer and another long one in which the falling tones of valediction gathered into a melancholy finality.†   (source)
  • It was time, she said, for Abdulrahman to leave Jableh and get away, if only for a spell, from their home so full of melancholy.†   (source)
  • It begins, It is a melancholy object to those who walk ...Do you have that?†   (source)
  • Karna, melancholy son of Surya, God of Day.†   (source)
  • She gave a melancholy laugh.†   (source)
  • The suit made him seem a different person, less melancholy and distracted, more capable—unlike the Hobie of my first visit, with his bedraggled aspect of an elegant but mistreated polar bear.†   (source)
  • And what would be the point of turning the Secret Annex into a Melancholy Annex?†   (source)
  • She was humming something melancholy and familiar.†   (source)
  • Like Arya's mind, music ran through this one: deep amber-gold chords that throbbed with magisterial melancholy.†   (source)
  • The second officer was a tall, thin man with a melancholy expression and dark hair thinning above his forehead.†   (source)
  • But at first hints of nightfall, they skulked back to their walled estates in San Marino or Pasadena, to Spanish-style mansions and the melancholy of manicured lawns.†   (source)
  • But even now, especially now, the bitter melancholy words of Job could still reach me.†   (source)
  • So, when he saw the diminished expectation in her eyes, the melancholy without blame, he could not say it.†   (source)
  • At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.†   (source)
  • Wladyslaw Szpilman describes his recent sufferings with an almost melancholy detachment.†   (source)
  • The song he was still playing, my song, drifted to an end, the final chords shifting to a more melancholy key.†   (source)
  • In the spring he went to Venice alone for a week, the trip he'd planned for the two of them, saturating himself in its ancient, melancholy beauty.†   (source)
  • The crowd has a melancholy air in this respect, and strenuous measures should be taken to overcome it.†   (source)
  • There is a happy song they sing when the moon is full on the snow and they are fed and there is a rain song, which is melancholy—they don't like rain very much—and there is a song they sing when you have been with them in the kennel and start to walk away, a come-back-and-don't-go-away sad song.†   (source)
  • Then we would sing, haunting, melancholy desert music.†   (source)
  • Together, in this darkness floating to sleep, they were like a distant blues tune heard in an almost deserted night club, melancholy but pleasing.†   (source)
  • A placid or melancholy bull with no interest in cows will have no interest for genealogy either, since with characteristics like these, its line will die out at once.†   (source)
  • I lingered only a short while, long enough to take what I must have, soothed in my great melancholy that the town gave me an endless train of magnificent strangers.†   (source)
  • " 'Anything' is such a general word, so unspecific," said Pangborn, sounding melancholy.†   (source)
  • She gave off an aura of melancholy and bewilderment, a scent of lavender and old clothes.†   (source)
  • By any standards it was an expensive, long, and melancholy journey across the United States of America, paid for by the organization for which I work.†   (source)
  • And so the very life of the colonial city, which the young Juvenal Urbino tended to idealize in his Parisian melancholy, was an illusion of memory.†   (source)
  • He was weak and introverted and melancholy, but he could also be delightful and enthusiastic.†   (source)
  • His blue, melancholy eyes lit up.†   (source)
  • The melancholy degeneration of the Great Houses has afflicted me at last, perhaps.†   (source)
  • "It almost tastes a little melancholy," he said.†   (source)
  • My mam's chapped lips and fleeting smile, the melancholy that filled our home in Kinvara and traveled with us across the ocean to take up permanent residence in the dim corners of our tenement apartment in New York.†   (source)
  • The thought of it plunged me into a melancholy as deep as the coal mine.†   (source)
  • It's more like that melancholy feeling you get at the end of a really good vacation.†   (source)
  • Mr Cardinal fell silent again and for a moment —perhaps it was to do with his having evoked memories of his late father — he looked extremely melancholy.†   (source)
  • A firm grip that would help me restore confidence in myself, keep me from becoming resigned to whatever melancholy moods she thought she detected hovering about my person.†   (source)
  • Adam ended his high school career with a bang, literally, as he walked out the door, but once Manda and he had posed for photos and said their good-byes to friends, Adam became melancholy.†   (source)
  • Eric leaned back, held in a kind of peaceful melancholy, comforted by the beat of Bessie's song, and looked over at Cass.†   (source)
  • The moonlight shone silently upon the frozen earth as life whispered throughout the land, broken now and then by a lone wolf's melancholy howl.†   (source)
  • Even today, when I hear that particular piece by Beethoven, my eyes close and out of the darkness emerges the pale and melancholy face of my Polish comrade bidding farewell to an audience of dying men.†   (source)
  • He was the chaplain's clerk, a slender Irishman with prematurely gray hair and gray, melancholy eyes.†   (source)
  • A look of deep melancholy crossed the Mathemagician's face and his eves grew moist with sadness.†   (source)
  • "No need for your melancholy, Sir Bert," Sir John said.†   (source)
  • Clarence Thomas smiles a warm and melancholy smile as Cedric shakes his hand in gratitude-a firm clench this time-before slipping past the end table with St. Jude and out the door, curiously happy to be headed for home.†   (source)
  • The cause of Dish's melancholy was not lost on Augustus.†   (source)
  • In the General Evening Post, one soldier portrayed the scene in Boston as nothing but "melancholy, disease, and death."†   (source)
  • I wonder what Dad would say if he could see me, melancholy about saying goodbye when I fought so hard to stay in Atlanta.†   (source)
  • He was depressed, but as he ate, his original desperation waned, lost its strength, and soon all that was left was melancholy.†   (source)
  • Milo let out a long, melancholy wail and staggered back, beads of perspiration popping out suddenly all over his ashen face.†   (source)
  • Everything about him seemed to shrink, except his ears and nose, which sagged and grew longer, giving him a melancholy look.†   (source)
  • I slipped further and further into melancholy.†   (source)
  • Instead of growing angry, the king's expression turned melancholy.†   (source)
  • The rain began to drip down the back of my neck adding to my feeling of discomfort and melancholy.†   (source)
  • A few melancholy birds were piping and wailing, until the round red sun sank slowly into the western shadows; then an empty silence fell.†   (source)
  • His demeanor had a kind of melancholy which was perplexing.†   (source)
  • This pronouncement did little to assuage John's melancholy mood, or Jack's defiant one.†   (source)
  • How can I lay this melancholy work upon them?†   (source)
  • Fifteen* Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.†   (source)
  • As Graham Greene's melancholy correspondent Thomas Fowler learned by the end of The Quiet American, sometimes, to be human, you have to take sides.†   (source)
  • One day, his mother came down to visit him and found him alone and melancholy.†   (source)
  • As a child I thought nothing of it, but when I became an adolescent, I began to read the verses on the tombstones with a certain pleasant melancholy.†   (source)
  • A melancholy has settled over my heart and will not yield, and I want solitude.†   (source)
  • His experience there seemed to be the source of his melancholy.†   (source)
  • It was a melancholy season at Ridgewood.†   (source)
  • It is April, and I am melancholy, and twenty-one years have passed.†   (source)
  • Given their first view of the cattle boat, so low in the water that it looked like a man whose belt had dropped to his knees, their melancholy made some sense, especially in the fog and the rain.†   (source)
  • "Too true, sir," said the mare with a melancholy whinny.†   (source)
  • The men in the Third Squad liked his melancholy songs best.†   (source)
  • His grief was as great as it had been in the awful loneliness of the night, his despair as deep as he had ever known it, but though he had begun the day sunk in melancholy, yearning for death, he now wanted desperately to live.†   (source)
  • He glanced down at the dog; it was staring up at him, its features now seemed melancholy.†   (source)
  • I felt a melancholy before her nakedness.†   (source)
  • His melancholy tone has her fearing the worst.†   (source)
  • They frolicked in a melancholy way, half giddy with freedom and travel, half fearful and lonely and worried, and irritated too, having gotten along in China, but as the simplest of friends.†   (source)
  • I think of the Virginia Woolf lines, the ones from The Waves: "Pale, with dark hair, the one who is coming is melancholy, romantic.†   (source)
  • Though we had known them so short a while there was melancholy in the parting.†   (source)
  • And so she passed that evening, her last in Israel, with no company other than the melancholy woman who had wrenched her from the refuge of her old life.†   (source)
  • All the anguish, all the grief spilled out of him, while above him Lolla-Wossiky, called Tenskwa-Tawa, called the Prophet, sang to him a song of melancholy, a song about the death of bees.†   (source)
  • The lush green fields and the cows all had golden halos and it was the melancholy and mellow time of day when I had to think about finding a forest to set up camp.†   (source)
  • GUIL: He's-melancholy.†   (source)
  • The frozen, unconvincing smile is an expression of almost incomprehensible melancholy.†   (source)
  • Peters nodded as if he were confirming a melancholy truth.†   (source)
  • A gray, quilted melancholy descended on him.†   (source)
  • Would they see the immense melancholy that hung over the quarter, so oppressive that men had to dull their sensibilities in noise or wine or sex or gluttony in order to escape it?†   (source)
  • A great melancholy appeared to overtake him, and his voice trailed off.†   (source)
  • I, too, breaking out of old ways, had discovered solitude and the melancholy which is at the basis of religion.†   (source)
  • (He bends upon MORE a melancholy look of admiration) MORE (As yet quite friendly, smiles quizzically) It sounds not unlike Madrid ....†   (source)
  • He thought that art was no more a vocation than innate cheerfulness or melancholy was a profession.†   (source)
  • There is a lot of stolid, earthy peasant in him, mixed with streaks of sentimental melancholy and rare flashes of intuitive sensibility.†   (source)
  • He drove through a heap of dead oak leaves, his wheels stirring their weightless sides to make a silvery melancholy whistle as the car passed through their bed.†   (source)
  • Butneither adventure, adulation nor a happy second marriage ever banished the inner sadness and melancholy which seemed to some in 1856, now that political defeat approached, more evident than ever.†   (source)
  • She heard the whistling from the veranda, a little melancholy noise, and suddenly felt as if she wanted to cry.†   (source)
  • We know only that in some strange and melancholy way we have become a waste land.   (source)
  • But as it is I perceive behind them only the suffering of the creature, the awful melancholy of life and the pitilessness of men.   (source)
    melancholy = sadness
  • Their stillness is the reason why these memories of former times do not awaken desire so much as sorrow—a vast, inapprehensible melancholy.   (source)
  • We grow melancholy.   (source)
    melancholy = thoughtfully sad
  • all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit.   (source)
    melancholy = sadness
  • At these times the country gave him a feeling of profound melancholy   (source)
  • Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern;   (source)
    melancholy = sad or depressing
  • For the first time in my life a feeling of overpowering stinging melancholy seized me.   (source)
    melancholy = sadness or depression
  • Though reckoned a melancholy man, Mr. Hooper had a placid cheerfulness for such occasions,   (source)
    melancholy = sad
  • He spoke before the hour bell sounded, which it now did with a deep, dull, hollow, melancholy ONE.   (source)
  • "I'm not going to stay a minute longer in this house. ..."
      "Dear heart, dear heart!" said Mr. Glegg in a melancholy tone, as he followed his wife out of the room.   (source)
  • a note of sweet and melancholy music   (source)
  • he had sometimes seen a shade of melancholy on her blessed face, that smote him with remorse and despair.   (source)
    melancholy = sadness
  • ...he looked back and saw the head of Faith still peeping after him with a melancholy air, in spite of her pink ribbons.   (source)
    melancholy = sad
  • 'Only it is so VERY lonely here!' Alice said in a melancholy voice; and at the thought of her loneliness two large tears came rolling down her cheeks.   (source)
  • It opened before them, and disclosed a long, bare, melancholy room, made barer still by lines of plain deal forms and desks.   (source)
    melancholy = sad or depressing
  • When is she dejected or melancholy?   (source)
    melancholy = sad (perhaps depressed)
  • Small wonder if he seemed melancholy and tired.†   (source)
    melancholy = a sad feeling or manner
  • She said Lord Jon had been reading more than was good for him, that he was troubled and melancholy over his young son's frailty, and gruff with his lady wife.†   (source)
  • The king's melancholy melted away with the morning mist, and before long Robert was eating an orange and waxing fond about a morning at the Eyrie when they had been boys.†   (source)
  • The writer Natalia Ginzburg remembered him after his death: "It seemed to us that his sadness was that of a boy, the voluptuous heedless melancholy of a boy who has still not come down to earth, and moves in the arid, solitary world of dreams."†   (source)
  • It helped to ease the melancholy gathered in his heart.†   (source)
  • MELANCHOLY HELD ME HOSTAGE, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul.†   (source)
  • There is an air of hopeless melancholy in her face which is very painful to contemplate.†   (source)
  • Anubis looked up at me, his eyes even more melancholy than usual.†   (source)
  • He wondered whether she suspected the reason for his melancholy.†   (source)
  • She ran a hand through her long hair, looking melancholy.†   (source)
  • The melancholy of the place seeped into my pores.†   (source)
  • She's given up some of her passivity lately, some of her melancholy.†   (source)
  • Bellamy could see the melancholy growing now in Peter's eyes.†   (source)
  • And the flute rose, in that melody singing of something melancholy, sad.†   (source)
  • His melancholy was like the darkness outside pushing against the car windows.†   (source)
  • He's thinking of Zachary, Katherine thought, recognizing the deep melancholy in her brother's eyes.†   (source)
  • A serious, melancholy man who taught her how to make shoes.†   (source)
  • But it was his melancholy smile that moved her the most deeply.†   (source)
  • He was a gaunt man, and Blomkvist thought that he looked at that moment like a melancholy scarecrow.†   (source)
  • There was always an element of melancholy involved in sex.†   (source)
  • My brothers were rowdy drunks, Prakash was melancholy.†   (source)
  • Calypso smiled, though her eyes were still touched by melancholy.†   (source)
  • "Good boy," Annabeth said, but her voice sounded melancholy and uncertain.†   (source)
  • "You should not be sad," he said, gazing at me with his melancholy, leathery walrus eyes.†   (source)
  • There was a melancholy in his tone that she did not like.†   (source)
  • And as the days wore on and we heard that bell over and over, it became a very melancholy sound.†   (source)
  • He tried to smile, but his eyes were downcast and melancholy.†   (source)
  • She was fond of boundless love, but she was equally fond of hopeless melancholy.†   (source)
  • My eyes closed and the moon drew me west, away from the island of my melancholy.†   (source)
  • But he took care never to get any less melancholy on a permanent basis.†   (source)
  • When Lotte and her son headed for home that afternoon, Paul was in a melancholy mood.†   (source)
  • An icy wind was blowing one February day, adding to the melancholy of Kensal Green Cemetery.†   (source)
  • Robert looked off into the darkness, for a moment as melancholy as a Stark.†   (source)
  • A melancholy smile came to his lips as his sensitive fingers gently brushed the surface.†   (source)
  • It was a cold and lonely sound, full of melancholy and despair.†   (source)
  • Not this melancholy junk from yesteryear.†   (source)
  • Such exercise, he believed, roused "the animal spirits" and "dispersed melancholy."†   (source)
  • He smiled, but it carried with it a trace of melancholy.†   (source)
  • Frowning at the gae bolga, the Demon's expression became thoughtful, almost melancholy.†   (source)
  • Thibault said nothing, and when Nana spoke again, her voice was tinged with melancholy.†   (source)
  • This would-be king was a tall spare lord with a melancholy visage, his lantern jaw shaved clean.†   (source)
  • To his surprise, he sensed a similar strain of pensive melancholy from Saphira.†   (source)
  • "Hazel Levesque," he said in a melancholy voice.†   (source)
  • The grayish afternoon light gave the walls a melancholy cast.†   (source)
  • I must admit to a sense of melancholy and distress as the afternoon wore on.†   (source)
  • Listening to its melancholy, lucid progression has the effect of stopping time.†   (source)
  • Sabina proceeded with her melancholy musings: What if she had a man who ordered her about?†   (source)
  • Rivera smiles a sort of melancholy smile, a smile of pity.†   (source)
  • Finishing his tea, Bram sat back down and gazed into the cup with a dark, melancholy air.†   (source)
  • She laughed—again he heard that striking melancholy.†   (source)
  • In Boston Harbor every ship displayed "the melancholy signal of mortality."†   (source)
  • Then I had to walk on, toward the melancholy tasks awaiting me beside yet another deathbed.†   (source)
  • Adrienne offered her a melancholy smile.†   (source)
  • These feelings translated themselves to her in extreme melancholy.†   (source)
  • Joe was disquieted and surprised to discover he shared this melancholy with the car salesman.†   (source)
  • For me, there is nothing else, our life is made only of hope and melancholy.†   (source)
  • I carried with me several specimen bottles, each containing some melancholy waste or secretion.†   (source)
  • 'I'm sorry, sir,' he said regretfully in a low, courteous, melancholy voice.†   (source)
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