To his eyes all seemed beautiful, but to me a tinge of melancholy lay upon the country-side, which bore so clearly the mark of the waning year.
I have only one other incident to record upon this tempestuous and melancholy day.
The melancholy of the moor, the death of the unfortunate pony, the weird sound which had been associated with the grim legend of the Baskervilles, all these things tinged my thoughts with sadness.
It was a most melancholy vigil, and ended by each of us falling asleep in our chairs.
Over the green squares of the fields and the low curve of a wood there rose in the distance a gray, melancholy hill, with a strange jagged summit, dim and vague in the distance, like some fantastic landscape in a dream.
I found the black tor upon which I had seen the solitary watcher, and from its craggy summit I looked out myself across the melancholy downs.
In its cold light I saw beyond the trees a broken fringe of rocks, and the long, low curve of the melancholy moor.
But the present lord, succeeding to the title as a mere child, was a melancholy contrast, not only to his grandsire, but to the general character of his progenitors.
It is a melancholy thought, but the marquisate, in that case, is extinct.
Waife again changed the key of his primitive music,--a melancholy belliny note, like the belling itself of a melancholy hart, but more modulated into sweetness.
We continuously saw our elders so, as if some mist of melancholy moved between us; and this was that mist.
This melancholy reverie was interrupted by Topándy's arrival.
See, the queen of melancholy is just beside you, on the far side the murderer.
Now you know what is the meaning of this melancholy house, whose door the ivy enters with the close of a man's life from time to time.
He recognised Mrs. Hilyard instinctively as she came forward, not conscious of him, walking, strange woman as she was, with the air of a person walking by choice at that melancholy hour in that dismal night.
I indulged myself in my mad experiments of unlimited freedom till appalled by the melancholy results.
At first my wife and children were terribly alarmed when they heard men crying, "The melancholy death of Mr. Joseph Barker.
With all his boldness Bela had not dared to approach that melancholy figure; but it had haunted his dreams, and troubled him sorely as he rode and drove, and played and did his lessons.
I cannot understand your dislike to your melancholy sea-shore.
The poor wretches got up, buttoned their clothes about them, thrust their hands into their bosoms, and shuffled out half asleep, a melancholy instance of the trials of the children of poverty and crime.
A cloud of dark and brooding melancholy settled upon Fort George after the departure of the troops.
When we left Water-lily Farm Makupi left also, and a few days after our arrival at our new home I saw his brick-red blanket again, and heard the thrumming of the little melancholy piano.
Also, there was a kind of quiet melancholyabout him that suggested acknowledged failure, and there is always a pathetic appeal to a woman in that.
Afar a wail of infinite sadness and melancholy pierced and echoed through the silence.
Nothing was to be seen but multitudes of tall, slender, melancholy stems, as like as peas, and standing within a foot of each other.
In Virginia and Maryland we had remarked that almost every family mansion had its little grave yard, sheltered by locust and cypress trees; but this decorated dwelling of the dead seemed rather a melancholy ornament in the grounds.
I have never been so happy in my life,' she said, in rather a melancholy voice.
Priscilla Howe' was written in one corner; there was a childish look on the small oval face; large melancholy eyes seemed appealing to one out of the canvas.
Some time after the shades of night had enveloped us, I descended to the cuddy, in quest of a blanket to shelter me from the increasing cold; and the scene of desolation that there presented itself was melancholy in the extreme.
From Norfolk in 1628 comes a still more melancholy tale.
She was dubbed beautiful, wise, and well-informed; but her situation was melancholy and perilous.
Interesting, therefore, as such pursuits have been on earth, nay, indispensable as they are to the well being and progress of human society, it is melancholy to realize that they form a part of that knowledge which will vanish away.
With a melancholy glance the youth surveyed the mean table and wooden stool which composed all the furniture in the dwelling-place of the once all-powerful prime minister.
Christine watched the proceeding in silent sadness, bowed with a sweet and melancholy grace to the judges, and, supporting her child with one arm and her husband with the other, she moved with him from the room.
Yet once more has my melancholy existence been rendered really useful in the world.
The crown of Sweden,' answered Goertz with a melancholy smile, 'has relieved me of the care of my earthly possessions.
I bring to you a suppliant, my poor friend,' said Rank, with a melancholy smile, to Goertz.
Christine cast a melancholy and complaining glance upon her neighbor, Mac Donalbain, and Megret eagerly begged to be added to the company.
The melancholy company moved silently forward through the stillness of the night.
I have the melancholy honor,' said Brenner, drawing his despatches from his bosom, 'to present to your royal highness these letters from your princely husband.
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.
Sam turned when they had gone a little way, and saw her white figure still in the porch, leaning in rather a melancholy attitude against the door-post.
Mrs. Marsh, with interest; for Castle Blake and itsmelancholy reminiscences were an old story to her.
Have you not seen Nathalie since those melancholy changes have occurred?
Its one dim window looked out on that melancholy sight, a New York backyard, and the gray and eerie dusk stole palely in, and the wild spring wind rattled the rickety casement.
But Val had a quick ear, and the low melancholy cadences struck him with a nameless thrill.
They hoped the body would be recovered--it would be a melancholy consolation to her friends, not to say to her enemies, who would then be out of doubt as to her fate.
The rain lashed the windows, and the melancholy autumn winds shrieked and wailed alternately around the cottage, waking a surging roar in the black cedar woods beyond.
The thin fingers wandered off into a plaintive little prelude, that had something wild and melancholy in its wailing minor key.
Les Calais, the long-drawn melancholy howling of the dog filled with forebodings the silent night.
His nose drooped at the tip, his eyes were melancholy under drooping lids; his chin receded, and lost itself rather fatuously in a length of thin neck.
His melancholy eyes drooped over her, and filled her with a determination to be nothing but practical.
That these suburbs are in some subtle respects the results of our melancholy grey skies no one can doubt.
And his voice expressed the melancholy pleasure the exile feels in a foreign land when he meets some one with whom he can converse in his native tongue.
The sick girl received him, if we may be allowed the expression, with melancholy gladness, and a little later all was over.
After a while she added, with a melancholy air: "Although I am but a poor hand myself at reading writing, I would swear that we hold in our hands the discharge of some soldier of Mohammed who is now in the bottomless pit.
In the middle of the room, on a funeral bier, lighted by six large wax tapers, which cast a melancholy light around, lay the body of the dead girl.
The flowers, agitated gently by the breezes of spring, leaned toward Berta as if sending her a melancholy greeting.
The birds of the garden alighted on the rail of the window, but did not venture to enter; they looked in apprehensively and flew away terrified; they twittered on the branches of the trees, and their melancholy chirpings seemed like sighs.
The last rays of the setting sun, lingering in the lane, illumined the melancholy group with a light tender and sorrowful as a farewell glance.
The poor Duckling did not know where it should stand or walk; it was quite melancholy because it looked ugly, and was scoffed at by the whole yard.
But it would be too melancholyif I were to tell all the misery and want which the Duckling had to endure in the hard Winter.
There he suffered many privations, and passed many melancholy days; and all that he went through sometimes soured his temper, sometimes saddened him, till strength and mind seemed failing.
With tearful eyes and melancholylooks her afflicted family gazed at her.
Waldemar Daae stood in deep and melancholy thought for a short time.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "melancholy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
