All 6 Uses of
melancholy
in
Wuthering Heights
- The intense horror of nightmare came over me: I tried to draw back my arm, but the hand clung to it, and a most melancholy voice sobbed, 'Let me in — let me in!'†
p. 17.5 *melancholy = a sad feeling or manner
- The flash of her eyes had been succeeded by a dreamy and melancholy softness; they no longer gave the impression of looking at the objects around her: they appeared always to gaze beyond, and far beyond — you would have said out of this world.†
p. 113.7
- I dared hardly lift my eyes from the page before me, that melancholy scene so instantly usurped its place.†
p. 127.0
- Time brought resignation, and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.†
p. 133.9
- She refused; and I unwillingly donned a cloak, and took my umbrella to accompany her on a stroll to the bottom of the park: a formal walk which she generally affected if low-spirited — and that she invariably was when Mr. Edgar had been worse than ordinary, a thing never known from his confession, but guessed both by her and me from his increased silence and the melancholy of his countenance.†
p. 167.2
- Cathy stared a long time at the lonely blossom trembling in its earthy shelter, and replied, at length — 'No, I'll not touch it: but it looks melancholy, does it not, Ellen?'†
p. 167.8
Definition:
a sad feeling or manner -- sometimes thoughtfully sad