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melancholy
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Madame Bovary
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- His mother always kept him near her; she cut out cardboard for him, told him tales, entertained him with endless monologues full of melancholy gaiety and charming nonsense.†
Chpt 1.1 *melancholy = a sad feeling or manner
- How she listened at first to the sonorous lamentations of its romantic melancholies reechoing through the world and eternity!†
Chpt 1.6
- Why could not she lean over balconies in Swiss chalets, or enshrine her melancholy in a Scotch cottage, with a husband dressed in a black velvet coat with long tails, and thin shoes, a pointed hat and frills?†
Chpt 1.7melancholy = a sad feeling or manner
- By moonlight in the garden she recited all the passionate rhymes she knew by heart, and, sighing, sang to him many melancholy adagios; but she found herself as calm after as before, and Charles seemed no more amorous and no more moved.†
Chpt 1.7
- Then noting the melancholy face of the graceful animal, who yawned slowly, she softened, and comparing her to herself, spoke to her aloud as to somebody in trouble whom one is consoling.†
Chpt 1.7
- Then the lusts of the flesh, the longing for money, and the melancholy of passion all blended themselves into one suffering, and instead of turning her thoughts from it, she clave to it the more, urging herself to pain, and seeking everywhere occasion for it.†
Chpt 2.5
- As on the return from Vaubyessard, when the quadrilles were running in her head, she was full of a gloomy melancholy, of a numb despair.†
Chpt 2.7
- She sprang towards him, she pressed against him, she stirred carefully the dying embers, sought all around her anything that could revive it; and the most distant reminiscences, like the most immediate occasions, what she experienced as well as what she imagined, her voluptuous desires that were unsatisfied, her projects of happiness that crackled in the wind like dead boughs, her sterile virtue, her lost hopes, the domestic tete-a-tete—she gathered it all up, took everything, and made it all serve as fuel for her melancholy.†
Chpt 2.7
- you see," replied he in a melancholy voice, "that I was right not to come back; for this name, this name that fills my whole soul, and that escaped me, you forbid me to use!†
Chpt 2.9
- He was calm, serious, melancholy.†
Chpt 2.9
- And he pretended not to notice her melancholy sighs, nor the handkerchief she took out.†
Chpt 2.10
- They were tender or jovial, facetious, melancholy; there were some that asked for love, others that asked for money.†
Chpt 2.13
- Nevertheless, she persevered; and when the volume slipped from her hands, she fancied herself seized with the finest Catholic melancholy that an ethereal soul could conceive.†
Chpt 2.14
- To show off, or from a naive imitation of this melancholy which called forth his, the young man declared that he had been awfully bored during the whole course of his studies.†
Chpt 3.1
- Once the moon rose; they did not fail to make fine phrases, finding the orb melancholy and full of poetry.†
Chpt 3.3
- It went to the bottom of her soul, like a whirlwind in an abyss, and carried her away into the distances of a boundless melancholy.†
Chpt 3.5
- She often said to him, with her sweet, melancholy voice— "Ah!†
Chpt 3.5
Definitions:
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(1)
(melancholy) a sad feeling or manner -- sometimes thoughtfully sad
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)