All 17 Uses
melancholy
in
Fathers and Sons
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- Nikolai Petrovitch was a little lame, he had small, pleasing features of a rather melancholy cast, small, black eyes, and thin, soft hair; he liked being lazy, but he also liked reading, and was timid in society.†
Chpt 7melancholy = a sad feeling or manner
- She was marvellously well-proportioned, her hair coloured like gold and heavy as gold hung below her knees, but no one would have called her a beauty; in her whole face the only good point was her eyes, and even her eyes were not good—they were grey, and not large—but their glance was swift and deep, unconcerned to the point of audacity, and thoughtful to the point of melancholy—an enigmatic glance.†
Chpt 7
- Her whole behaviour presented a series of inconsistencies; the only letters which could have awakened her husband's just suspicions, she wrote to a man who was almost a stranger to her, whilst her love had always an element of melancholy; with a man she had chosen as a lover, she ceased to laugh and to jest, she listened to him, and gazed at him with a look of bewilderment.†
Chpt 7
- He was overtaken by melancholy thoughts.†
Chpt 11 *
- Afterwards, the first timid visits, the half-words, the half-smiles, and embarrassment; and melancholy, and yearnings, and at last that breathing rapture....Where had it all vanished?†
Chpt 11
- He walked a great deal, till he was almost tired out, while the restlessness within him, a kind of yearning, vague, melancholy restlessness, still was not appeased.†
Chpt 11
- Nikolai Petrovitch continued walking, and could not make up his mind to go into the house, into the snug peaceful nest, which looked out at him so hospitably from all its lighted windows; he had not the force to tear himself away from the darkness, the garden, the sense of the fresh air in his face, from that melancholy, that restless craving.†
Chpt 11
- Bazarov, in whom Anna Sergyevna was obviously interested, though she seldom agreed with him, began to show signs of an unrest, unprecedented in him; he was easily put out of temper, and unwilling to talk, he looked irritated, and could not sit still in one place, just as though he were possessed by some secret longing; while Arkady, who had made up his mind conclusively that he was in love with Madame Odintsov, had begun to yield to a gentle melancholy.†
Chpt 17
- This melancholy did not, however, prevent him from becoming friendly with Katya; it even impelled him to get into friendly, affectionate terms with her.†
Chpt 17
- Katya, on her side, did not try to drive away melancholy.†
Chpt 17
- 'I might now repeat to you,' said Arkady, as he lay down in bed, to Bazarov, who was also undressing, what you once said to me, 'Why are you so melancholy?†
Chpt 19
- 'You're in a melancholy mood to-day, Yevgeny.'†
Chpt 21
- He was feeling, too, that causeless melancholy which is only known to very young people.†
Chpt 22
- Help me to get into the droshky, and don't give way to melancholy.†
Chpt 24
- 'I don't like Heine,' said Katya, glancing towards the book which Arkady was holding in his hands, 'either when he laughs or when he weeps; I like him when he's thoughtful and melancholy.'†
Chpt 25
- These statues were to represent Solitude, Silence, Meditation, Melancholy, Modesty, and Sensibility.†
Chpt 26
- he has got over his melancholy!' he whispered to his wife; 'how he gave it to me to-day, it was splendid!'†
Chpt 27
Definitions:
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(1)
(melancholy) a sad feeling or manner -- sometimes thoughtfully sad
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)