All 6 Uses

melancholy
in
The Call of the Canyon
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A few melancholy pines were standing, and everywhere, as far as she could see southward, were blackened fallen trees and stumps.†
Chpt 5 *

melancholy = a sad feeling or manner
The few cattle grazing on the bleached grass appeared as melancholy as the pines.†
Chpt 5
The mornings broke clear and fragrantly cool, the noon hours seemed to lag under a hot sun, the nights fell like dark mantles from the melancholy star-sown sky.†
Chpt 6
She divined something in his mind that kept him gentle and kindly, restrained always, sometimes melancholy and aloof, as if he were an impassive destiny waiting for the iron consequences he knew inevitably must fall.†
Chpt 6
This hour of twilight is the silent and melancholy one.†
Chpt 9
The darkest hour fell—hour of silence, solitude, and melancholy, when the desert lay tranced, cold, waiting, mournful without light of moon or stars or sun.†
Chpt 12

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