All 10 Uses of
melancholy
in
The Hound of the Baskervilles
- Over the green squares of the fields and the low curve of a wood there rose in the distance a gray, melancholy hill, with a strange jagged summit, dim and vague in the distance, like some fantastic landscape in a dream.†
Chpt 6melancholy = a sad feeling or manner
- To his eyes all seemed beautiful, but to me a tinge of melancholy lay upon the country-side
Chpt 6 *melancholy = sadness
- In its cold light I saw beyond the trees a broken fringe of rocks, and the long, low curve of the melancholy moor.†
Chpt 6melancholy = a sad feeling or manner
- From a dull murmur it swelled into a deep roar, and then sank back into a melancholy, throbbing murmur once again.†
Chpt 7
- An orchard surrounded it, but the trees, as is usual upon the moor, were stunted and nipped, and the effect of the whole place was mean and melancholy.†
Chpt 7
- The melancholy of the moor, the death of the unfortunate pony, the weird sound which had been associated with the grim legend of the Baskervilles, all these things tinged my thoughts with sadness.†
Chpt 7
- It was a most melancholy vigil, and ended by each of us falling asleep in our chairs.†
Chpt 9
- It is melancholy outside and in.†
Chpt 10
- I found the black tor upon which I had seen the solitary watcher, and from its craggy summit I looked out myself across the melancholy downs.†
Chpt 10
- I have only one other incident to record upon this tempestuous and melancholy day.†
Chpt 10
Definition:
a sad feeling or manner -- sometimes thoughtfully sad