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Example sentences for "melancholy smile"

  • Then he leant back with a melancholy smile, the engine whistled, and the train rushed towards Hanover.

  • You are right,' said Arwed with a melancholy smile, 'I have experienced so many vicissitudes lately, that my computation of time is a little disturbed.

  • I bring to you a suppliant, my poor friend,' said Rank, with a melancholy smile, to Goertz.

  • The crown of Sweden,' answered Goertz with a melancholy smile, 'has relieved me of the care of my earthly possessions.

  • Then, with a melancholy smile, he soon continued.

  • The answer of the free-trader was accompanied by a melancholy smile.

  • The latter leaned against the top with folded arms, listening to their impotent efforts with a melancholy smile.

  • The slave raised his head with a melancholy smile.

  • A melancholy smile and a look of utter devotion were the only response.

  • Lie still," said Cornelia, with a melancholy smile, and they needed no second telling.

  • Joan reassured the archbishop and the deputation from her good town of Aix with a melancholy smile, and promised that she would always cherish the memory of their affection.

  • His face is death-like in its pallor, and a melancholy smile is playing upon his parted lips.

  • Before beginning this conversation," said Sabine, with a melancholy smile, "I must tell you that I am greatly changed.

  • She resembles me only too much in this respect," added Jenny, with a melancholy smile.

  • The young man watched pensively, and with a melancholy smile, the hunter's movements.

  • I was not Loyal Heart then," the hunter continued with a melancholy smile; "but it is true that I was only a lad, just fourteen years of age.

  • Ah, my time is not valuable," replied the man with a melancholy smile.

  • Haidee answered his remark with a melancholy smile.

  • It is useless to read it," said the Count, with a melancholy smile.

  • Or he who experiences it," said the young man, with a melancholy smile.

  • That would have been just as trying for you,' said Raphael, with a melancholy smile.

  • That is the dream of visionaries--and young men,' he added, with a melancholy smile.

  • Madame could not help smiling--a melancholy smile, monsieur, that went to one's heart.

  • I have not slept either," answered the General with a melancholy smile, as he walked with a firm, quiet step through the door, which the old man now opened and shut after him.

  • Eustace Trevor shook his head with a melancholy smile, though at the same time his pale brow flushed at the suggestion.

  • No, my son,' said the matron, with a melancholy smile.

  • The true shepherds must first be driven away,' said the doctor with a melancholy smile, 'when the wolf desires undisturbedly to break into the unfortunate fold.

  • Yes," said Lützow, with a melancholy smile.

  • She looked even paler and sadder than before, and greeted her friends on both sides with a heart-rending, melancholy smile.

  • You are perhaps ignorant that they are fighting in England," added she, with a melancholy smile, "and that in a short time they will fight in a much more decided fashion than they have done hitherto.

  • Athos glanced around at his friends with a melancholy smile.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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