3 uses
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Definition
happiness that come with the memory of good times combined with a hint of sadness that those times are over
- Perhaps it was because my family had no nostalgia for the past, no sense of responsibility to uphold a proud and carefully wrought tradition.Chapter 3.25 (37% in)
- The Tradd—St. Croix house evoked a mythic, possessive nostalgia from the reverent crowds who walked single file through its hushed, candle-lit interior each April during the annual spring tour of homes, for it was emblematic of the most remarkable instincts of that form-possessed society.Chapter 1.2 (19% in)
- A chandelier, the most famous in South Carolina, hung like a brilliant crystal stalactite from the ceiling, and the smell of furniture polish gave a permanent, opulent odor to the room, a perfume of endurance and nostalgia.Chapter 3.25 (31% in)
There are no more uses of "nostalgia" in The Lords of Discipline.
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