All 11 Uses of
melancholy
in
Great Expectations
- If you complain of me I shall get into trouble with my sister, so I would do it if I could; but it's so new here, and so strange, and so fine,—and melancholy—.†
Chpt 8melancholy = a sad feeling or manner
- "So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!†
Chpt 8
- I shall think of it with a melancholy satisfaction when I wake up in the night.†
Chpt 11 *
- It was agreed to be done; and a most melancholy day I passed.†
Chpt 13
- We entered this haven through a wicket-gate, and were disgorged by an introductory passage into a melancholy little square that looked to me like a flat burying-ground.†
Chpt 21
- And Mr. Jaggers made not me alone intensely melancholy, because, after he was gone, Herbert said of himself, with his eyes fixed on the fire, that he thought he must have committed a felony and forgotten the details of it, he felt so dejected and guilty.†
Chpt 36
- As he imparted this melancholy circumstance to Wemmick, Mr. Jaggers standing magisterially before the fire and taking no share in the proceedings, Mike's eye happened to twinkle with a tear.†
Chpt 51
- There was a melancholy wind, and the marshes were very dismal.†
Chpt 53
- There was the red sun, on the low level of the shore, in a purple haze, fast deepening into black; and there was the solitary flat marsh; and far away there were the rising grounds, between which and us there seemed to be no life, save here and there in the foreground a melancholy gull.†
Chpt 54
- "Don't be cheeky, Jack," remonstrated the landlord, in a melancholy and pathetic way.†
Chpt 54
- To the present hour, the weary western streets of London on a cold, dusty spring night, with their ranges of stern, shut-up mansions, and their long rows of lamps, are melancholy to me from this association.†
Chpt 56
Definition:
a sad feeling or manner -- sometimes thoughtfully sad