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Sentences ending with melancholy

It was open when Dyck first saw it, because she was singing little bits of wild lyrics of the hills, little tragedies of Celtic life--just bursts of the Celtic soul, as it were, cheerful yet sad, buoyant and passionate, eager yet melancholy. [11]
His face was very melancholy. [5]
I've often tried to read it to Livy, but she won't have it; it makes her melancholy. [5]
Young people in this country are much more prone to melancholy. [6]
Do you know the charm of melancholy? [6]
And passengers in the cabin occupying chairs and sofas, surrounded by their baggage, always look bored and melancholy. [4]
There was something terribly deliberate in her strangeness; it was full of awe to the beholder, more searching and painfully pitiful than melancholy. [11]
She was wonderfully successful in subduing the spirits of melancholy. [10]
The fine young soldier was a wreck, broken alike in heart and body and sunk in melancholy. [10]
Did you ever see me melancholy? [10]

Short sentences using melancholy

Huck was melancholy, too. [5]
Well, it's a melancholy tit-for-tat. [11]
Were we melancholy? [6]

Sentences containing melancholy two or more times

What a queer, melancholy house, what a queer, melancholy street! [5]
And the Padre's a fair square sort, as I reckon him, but melancholy, almighty melancholy. [11]

More example sentences with the word melancholy in them

But I hope your melancholy bodings as to her early death are not well founded. [7]
But they also wove into my life something else which lends their memory a melancholy charm. [10]
This beautiful happy world they would have dark, gloomy, melancholy, hideous; thy kingdom, great Phoebus, is sunny, joyful and bright . [10]
Anna Pavlovna remarked with a melancholy smile that Kutuzov had done nothing but cause the Emperor annoyance. [2]
Then, seating herself, with a melancholy glance at her embroidery where it lay folded together, she rested her elbow on the table and her head in her hand, considering to whom she could appeal to save her father. [10]
The sleeping lion will wake again, and, when he uses his teeth and paws--" "My mother will run away, and your father will follow her," replied Caesarion with a melancholy smile, wholly untinged by scorn. [10]
The physician here will now take the melancholy tidings to the unfortunate widow, and then you can talk it all over with her at night. [10]
Such a man will be likely to put his garden in complete order before the snow comes, so that its last days shall not present a scene of melancholy ruin and decay. [4]
The husband and wife looked at each other, and Petrus said with a melancholy smile, "I believe they are up on the mountain. [10]
I supplicated--three hot whiskeys did the rest--and finally the melancholy miner began. [5]
Time passes swiftly when thoughts are cheerful, or are only tinged with the soft melancholy of a brief separation. [11]
One morning early we made the venture in a melancholy drizzle of rain, and passed through the frowning gates unmolested. [5]
But the Gaul was not to be seen; so Dido, interrupted by sobs, began the melancholy tale. [10]
That old person was not present--it was her other self that was there, her young, sentimental, melancholy, warm-blooded self, in those early sweet times before antiquity had cooled her off and mossed her back. [5]
The band itself was half asleep, but by sheer force of habit it kept on, the fiddlers drawing the perfunctory bows, and the melancholy clarionet men breathing their expressive sighs. [4]
His own guilt was causing him great mental trouble and, in fact, notwithstanding the arduous labour imposed upon him by the war, the most melancholy mood again took possession of him. [10]
And yet there was a touch of melancholy in it all, the horizon was so vast, and the mist of uncertainty lay along it. [4]
Hogg says she was a prey to a kind of sweet melancholy, arising from causes purely imaginary; she required consolation, and found it in Petrarch. [5]
As the train waited, John heard from miles of marshes round about the evening song of millions of frogs, louder and more melancholy and entreating than the vesper call of the bells. [4]
Beside this deserted village, even Calamity Pond, shallow, sedgy, with its ragged shores of stunted firs, and its melancholy shaft that marks the spot where the proprietor of the iron-works accidentally shot himself, is cheerful. [4]
There was something very wilful in her beauty, and her body too had delicate, melancholy lines strange in one so young. [11]
He knew the very best background for a poem of deep and refined sentiment and pathetic melancholy was one where great and satisfying merriment had prepared the spirit for the powerful contrast. [5]
Her father--for Dudley Venner was her father--looked like a man of culture and breeding, but melancholy and with a distracted air, as one whose life had met some fatal cross or blight. [6]
True, he has vanquished foes enough, but the demon of melancholy, that makes even Dr. Mathys anxious, is far worse than the infidels before whom you were compelled to retreat in Algiers--far more terrible than the Turks and heretics combined. [10]
When he showed us scenery he loved, it made him melancholy to have us speak of scenery elsewhere that was finer. [4]
When he got upon his feet at last and moved feebly down-town, a melancholy change had come over everything and every creature. [5]
It was a two-story log house situated on a small knoll in the midst of the vast basin or desert through which the sickly Carson winds its melancholy way. [5]
The young people tried to comfort him; and when at last he was more composed and had dried his tears, he said, in so melancholy and subdued a tone that the angry blusterer was scarcely recognizable: "There--leave me alone; it will soon be over. [10]
Boris sketched two trees in the album and wrote: "Rustic trees, your dark branches shed gloom and melancholy upon me. [2]
Gregory has since told me that, as he travelled with Jacques Pontiac across the Height of Land to his destination, he had uncomfortable feelings; presentiments, peculiar reflections of the past, and melancholy --a thing far from habitual with him. [11]
When Titianus had told his wife the melancholy news he added solemnly: "A great sovereign is dead. [10]
It is melancholy to think how many epic poets have been lost in the tea-trade, how many dramatists (though the age of the drama has passed) have wasted their genius in great mercantile and mechanical enterprises. [4]
I told him to stop being 16 at 40; told him to stop drooling about the sweet yet melancholy past, and take a pill. [5]
It is melancholy to hear them jabber over the same pointless anecdotes three and four times of an evening, forgetting that they had jabbered them over three or four times the evening before. [5]
Time itself seemed to have grown dull and old, as if no day were ever to displace the melancholy night. [12]
He was permitted to do what no one else ventured, for his cheerfulness and wit, his gift of story-telling, and sharp tongue often succeeded in dispelling the clouds of melancholy from the brow of his imperial master. [10]
It brought him to a melancholy standstill, disturbed at last by Gongi touching him on the arm and pointing towards the post-office. [11]
From time to time the curtain was lifted and a lovely head appeared, whose questioning blue eyes fixed at once on the physician, but were always dismissed with the same melancholy shrug. [10]
So that presently Tiefel cried out: "Why, my friend, you are melancholy as an owl. [9]
I have met thousands of mourners in these melancholy scenes, which, I can assure you, are the very best school for training any one who desires to search the hearts of his fellow-creatures. [10]
It's a melancholy thought to me that we can no longer express ourselves with the bass-drum; there used to be the whole of the Fourth of July in its patriotic throbs. [4]
This was melancholy, this was woeful. [5]
I am sending this by Adjutant-General Prince Volkonski, to hear from you the situation of the army and the reasons that have induced you to take this melancholy decision. [2]
But others were thinking of the Semaphore at this moment, others saw it indistinct, yet melancholy, in the moonlight. [11]
And he said they were pleasant and cheerful, not gloomy and melancholy, like ghosts. [5]
With inimitable melancholy they sang: "Oh, the Roast Beef of Old England! [11]
One by one the men got melancholy and then went mad, and I had to tie them up, and care for them and feed them. [11]
The melancholy of the gorgeously tinted trees, the flights of the birds to the south, the smell of the fallow field, the wind with the touch of the coming rains--these had given to a growing discontent with her monotonous life the desire born of self-pity. [11]
The auguries which the Friend drew from these signs of civilization of a charming inn and a royal supper did not lighten the melancholy of his mind. [4]
The image of the fair, whitearmed woman recurred to his mind, and a melancholy longing began to creep over him. [10]
His sense of the comic was touched, and asserted itself at this serious moment, and with such melancholy surroundings. [10]
Almost melancholy is the aspect of its freestone colonial building, where once the colonial legislature held its momentous sessions, and the colonial governor shed the delightful aroma of royalty. [4]
Then it appeared that there were fifteen of the latter among the liberated prisoners and, to Ephraim's special delight, Reuben, the husband of poor melancholy Milcah, who clung so closely to Miriam. [10]
Then she confessed that the Emperor's sufferings and melancholy mood had induced her to subject them to the discomforts of the trip to Ratisbon. [10]
The first thing that struck me, as he lowered the glass and leaned against a gun, was the melancholy in the lines of his figure. [11]
Do you wonder that my thoughts took the poetical form, in the contemplation of these changes and their melancholy consequences? [6]
Jean Paul has termed melancholy the blending of joy and pain, and it was doubtless a kindred feeling which filled my heart in the days before my departure, and induced me to be particularly good and obliging to every body in the house. [10]
The traveller who supposes that he is to repeat the melancholy experience of Shenstone, and have to sigh over the reflection that he has found "his warmest welcome at an inn," has something to learn at the offices of the great city hotels. [6]
While I was suffering from it, I wrote some sadly desponding poems, and a theological essay which took a very melancholy view of creation. [6]
There was a strange melancholy in his eyes, belying the passion and rapture of his words. [11]
When the doctor's story was first made public, it was amusing to scan and contemplate the countenances and hear the remarks of those who had been actively in search for the dead body: some looked quizzical, some melancholy, and some furiously angry. [7]
With the music still creeping in unutterable melancholy through the room, she had fled, closing the door behind her very softly as though not to disturb the sleeper. [11]
Don't take any steps--" "Oh, there are no steps to take," said March, with a melancholy smile. [8]
From a lonely spot by the river, Fleda watched the westering gleam until it vanished, her soul alive to the melancholy beauty of it all. [11]
A subtle smile sometimes flitted over his grave, somewhat melancholy face--that of a man who has ceased to wrestle in the arena of life, and after severe conflict now preferred to stand among the spectators and watch others win or lose the prize of victory. [10]
There must be something special, which causes dogs to howl in the night, and especially during moonlight, in that remarkable and melancholy manner called baying. [1]
I have passed some melancholy hours at them. [4]
Was it altogether so melancholy as it might seem? [4]
I watched there six days and nights, and a very melancholy experience it was. [5]
Still, no doubt, she would find him wrapped in dignified readiness for the worst, sorrowing serenely for the doomed world, and so her melancholy message would come to a prepared and resigned heart. [10]
A dreary, melancholy settled down upon her. [5]
Stafford regarded the scene with detached, yet deep and melancholy interest. [11]
It shall be royal, melancholy, devilish: a splendid bastard with creation against him; the best, most fascinating subject in English history. [11]
As the large, round disk of day declined, a stillness, a solemnity, a somewhat melancholy hush came over us all. [6]
She was deeply religious, and this is a thing which sometimes gives a melancholy cast to a person's countenance, but it was not so in her case. [5]
His illness had refined his features and form, and touched off his cheerfulness with a fine melancholy. [11]
These melancholy things pursued me as I flew, till my wings drooped, and I felt that I must drop into the dull marsh far beneath, round which travelled a lonely mist. [11]
Both melancholy and purpose marked the attitude of the figure. [11]
After the melancholy procession had passed around a steep mountain whose summit was crowned with a small Egyptian temple of Hathor and a number of monuments, it approached a bend in the valley which led to the ravine where the mines were located. [10]
Money was as plenty as dust; every individual considered himself wealthy, and a melancholy countenance was nowhere to be seen. [5]
A melancholy sweetness pervaded her resignation. [13]
Who are these pale specters in plug-hats and silken flounces that file up the companionway in melancholy procession and step upon the deck? [5]
Good heavens, how pale and melancholy you look! [10]
Her face was pale and distraught; her blue eyes, with their long, melancholy lashes, stared at him in appealing apprehension. [11]
Obedient, calm, yielding, only often overpowered by melancholy and bitter thoughts and feelings, yet, on the other hand, exalted by the fact that the Emperor Charles, for her sake, was now depriving himself also of this man, whom he so greatly needed. [10]
Huck was sitting on the gunwale of a flatboat, listlessly dangling his feet in the water and looking very melancholy. [5]
You have shown, on many occasions, that your mission is not simply to antidote the melancholy of a world, but includes a real and intelligent concern for the general welfare of your fellowman. [5]
This comforted the old woman so much that again she could not help crying; but, notwithstanding the sincerity of her tears, being accustomed of old to take advantage of her master's moods, she felt that now was the time to tell her melancholy story. [10]
The melancholy of old age has a divine tenderness in it, which only the sad experiences of life can lend a human soul. [6]
I have so often tried to answer what he is always saying on that melancholy theme that I almost turn with disgust from the discussion,--from the repetition of an answer to it. [7]
Through the whispering of the trees, and hushing the melancholy of a night-bird's song, came the wild low note of the Romany epic of vengeance. [11]
By the magic of the new and nobler influences the sterile spaces were transformed into wooded parks, the merry electric car replaced the melancholy 'bus, smooth concrete the tempestuous plank sidewalk, the macadamised road the primitive corduroy, et cetera. [5]
At the border of the Desert lies Carson Lake, or The "Sink" of the Carson, a shallow, melancholy sheet of water some eighty or a hundred miles in circumference. [5]
The night bird of the canyon, with clear and melancholy notes announced the twilight. [13]
There was something of melancholy in his voice as he desired his young camel-driver to pick up the flowers, which now lay in the dust of the road, and to bring them to him. [10]
The bare thought of her dispelled melancholy thoughts from his mind; the hope of soon seeing and hearing her again rendered him friendly and yielding to those about him. [10]
After the death of her best-beloved lord the young widow was overcome with brooding melancholy from which nothing could rouse her. [10]
The melancholy note of a canyon bird broke clear and lonely from the high cliffs. [13]
And I cared nothing for the loss of my happiness, because, not being a poet, it could not be possible that melancholy would abide with me long. [5]
That philosopher had not changed towards him any more than Miss Tavish had, but it was a melancholy business to talk of his affairs, and to listen to the repeated advice to go down to the country to Edith, and wait for some good opening. [4]

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