All 8 Uses of
melancholy
in
Sea Wolf
- This loneliness is bad enough in itself, but, to make it worse, he is oppressed by the primal melancholy of the race.†
Chpt 10 *melancholy = a sad feeling or manner
- In point of fact, the chief vent to this primal melancholy has been religion in its more agonizing forms.†
Chpt 10
- And while the whole face was the incarnation of fierceness and strength, the primal melancholy from which he suffered seemed to greaten the lines of mouth and eye and brow, seemed to give a largeness and completeness which otherwise the face would have lacked.†
Chpt 10
- I can hear him now, as I shall always hear him, the primal melancholy vibrant in his voice as he read: "I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces; I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts.†
Chpt 11
- Leach and Johnson were the two particular victims of Wolf Larsen's diabolic temper, and the look of profound melancholy which had settled on Johnson's face and in his eyes made my heart bleed.†
Chpt 16
- The old primal melancholy was strong upon him.†
Chpt 24
- Nilson was as cheerful as could be expected, for his broken leg was knitting nicely; but the Cockney was desperately melancholy, and I was aware of a great sympathy for the unfortunate creature.†
Chpt 25
- Damp and soggy where it was not sharp and rocky, buffeted by storm winds and lashed by the sea, with the air continually a-tremble with the bellowing of two hundred thousand amphibians, it was a melancholy and miserable sojourning-place.†
Chpt 29
Definition:
a sad feeling or manner -- sometimes thoughtfully sad