All 14 Uses of

melancholy
in
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit.
Chpt 2 *

melancholy = sadness

The boy's soul was steeped in melancholy; his feelings were in happy accord with his surroundings.†
Chpt 8

melancholy = a sad feeling or manner

And then there came, mingling with his half-formed dreams, a most melancholy caterwauling.†
Chpt 9

Yet notwithstanding all this, the boy grew more and more melancholy and pale and dejected.†
Chpt 12

In the afternoon Becky Thatcher found herself moping about the deserted schoolhouse yard, and feeling very melancholy.†
Chpt 17

Becky resumed her picture inspections with Alfred, but as the minutes dragged along and no Tom came to suffer, her triumph began to cloud and she lost interest; gravity and absent-mindedness followed, and then melancholy; two or three times she pricked up her ear at a footstep, but it was a false hope; no Tom came.†
Chpt 18

"Friendship" was one; "Memories of Other Days"; "Religion in History"; "Dream Land"; "The Advantages of Culture"; "Forms of Political Government Compared and Contrasted"; "Melancholy"; "Filial Love"; "Heart Longings," etc., etc. A prevalent feature in these compositions was a nursed and petted melancholy; another was a wasteful and opulent gush of "fine language"; another was a tendency to lug in by the ears particularly prized words and phrases until they were worn entirely out; and a peculiarity that conspicuously marked and marred them was the inveterate and intolerable sermon that wagged its crippled tail at the end of each and every one of them.†
Chpt 21

"Friendship" was one; "Memories of Other Days"; "Religion in History"; "Dream Land"; "The Advantages of Culture"; "Forms of Political Government Compared and Contrasted"; "Melancholy"; "Filial Love"; "Heart Longings," etc., etc. A prevalent feature in these compositions was a nursed and petted melancholy; another was a wasteful and opulent gush of "fine language"; another was a tendency to lug in by the ears particularly prized words and phrases until they were worn entirely out; and a peculiarity that conspicuously marked and marred them was the inveterate and intolerable sermon that wagged its crippled tail at the end of each and every one of them.†
Chpt 21

Then arose a slim, melancholy girl, whose face had the "interesting" paleness that comes of pills and indigestion, and read a "poem."†
Chpt 21

When he got upon his feet at last and moved feebly down-town, a melancholy change had come over everything and every creature.†
Chpt 22

Huck was sitting on the gunwale of a flatboat, listlessly dangling his feet in the water and looking very melancholy.†
Chpt 27

Aunt Polly had drooped into a settled melancholy, and her gray hair had grown almost white.†
Chpt 32

Definition:

a sad feeling or manner -- sometimes thoughtfully sad