Every note seemed to have in it the sadness of age, the mournful blending of the bygone when hope was young and disappointment and care had not crushed with a load of misery a heart once fresh as those of the singers.
For how is it that those melodies of the past, even though major, seemed to acquire a mournful tone that is not minor, but has all its sad sweetness?
The mournful apostle had become a wild, vibrating creature with flashing eyes and fingers.
This was the first time they had come together since the afternoon of revelation, and there was a moment of constraint during which Silas tugged at his streaked beard and looked with mournful wistfulness at his son.
The latter oddities, however, did not detract from the quiet, mournful dignity of his face and manner.
There is no good reason why I should set down such mournful details.
The menials are insulting me,' said Dolores to herself, and a tear came to her eye, while all the time there was a certain mournful satisfaction in being so entirely the heroine of a book.
When she found that the armes- liebes Madchen shrank from being wept over and caressed on the mournful return, she decided that the English had no feeling, and acquiesced in the routine of lessons and expeditions to classes.
The owl and the goat-sucker cease theirmournful lament, and as streaks of light appear the "Ha!
His name had gained a mournful celebrity in the page of history, as that of the chief martyr in the massacre of St. Bartholomew.
The joy of the conquerors was dimmed by one mournful event, the death of Count Adolphus of Nassau, who fell bravely fighting at the head of his troops, one of the first victims in the war of the revolution.
The spectre, after listening for a moment, joined in the mournful dirge; and floated out upon the bleak, dark night.
The fog and frost so hung about the black old gateway of the house, that it seemed as if the Genius of the Weather sat in mournfulmeditation on the threshold.
Scrooge looked at the Ghost, and, with a mournful shaking of his head, glanced anxiously towards the door.
But owing to the dimness of the light or the sadness of her mood, the features, instead of smiling, seemed to regard her with a mournful gaze.
I did not even know that you had become his wife; these mournful robes tell me you are a widow.
On his return from seeing him, he was very mournful and dispirited; he suddenly began to feel that he was anxious for Mitya’s escape, not only to heal that sore place by sacrificing thirty thousand, but for another reason.
The captain noticed the change in her with mournful perplexity.
Boys," said he, in a broken voice of indignant but mournful inquiry, "have any of ye seed the skillet?
These rapids with their mournful cry become a character in the story; they dominate every page until at the end they rescue the hero, bearing in his arms the frightful "windigo," in a page of action that stirs the blood.
Gradually he revived, and when he had fully come to himself with the help of cordials and food, we gathered from him the mournful tale of his vessel and her wreck.
What a volume of heroism and resignation to a mournful probability in this calm foresight and deliberate choice, to wear always on their living flesh, as it were, the signature of a sepulchral name!
I am arrested for debt," said Jacques, in a mournful voice.
After a vivid account of the scene and the incident that gave such a mournful interest to it, she describes a visit she made a year or two after to High Legh.
Doll, and Dot repeated, like a mournful echo, "too told!
In mournful humility I immediately obeyed, and we glided on our way again.
A dear and a mournful remembrance was revived in the reflections suggested by that simple word.
Away in the dim light behind, is a solitary figure, ever mournfuland ever still.
Sometimes, the figure of Mrs. Sherwin appeared to me, wan and weary, and mournful with a ghostly mournfulness.
He longed to throw himself before the mournful procession and stop it, shouting, "Do not kill this just man!
Verily she might have exclaimed in the mournful words of Lamb: "All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
And to-day, as she looked out on the flying clouds, and listened to the mournful wail of the rushing gale, she seemed to stand upon the verge of a yawning chaos.
Tall poplars lifted their leafless arms helplessly toward the sky, and threw grotesque shadows on the ground beneath, while the wintry wind chanted a mournful dirge through the somber foliage of the aged, solemn cedars.
They carry fans and mirrors, or make fast The mournful flute-like cadence of a veil.
For with Demeter still we seek the Spring, With Dionysos tread the sacred Vine, Our broken bodies still imagining The mournful Mystery of the Bread and Wine.
My great doctrine dwells Immortal in those fevered heresies, And all the inversions of my rites proclaim The mournful memory of mine altar-flame.
With what a mournful dignity it invests our fallen nature!
The corpse is generally carried to the grave, the bearers being chosen from among the gentlemen of most note in the neighbourhood, who, to the honour of the country be it spoken, never refuse to act on these mournful occasions.
A mournful land as land can be Beneath their feet in ashes lay, Beside that dread and dried-up sea; A city older than that gray And grass-grown tower builded when Confusion cursed the tongues of men.
She sits upon the water's brink As mournful soul'd as you can think.
Watch those sad andmournful students pass day after day with pale foreheads, slow steps, and half-suppressed voices.
Father Joseph, dropping his pen, arose and was inquiring whether he were ill, when he heard issue from the depths of his chest these mournful and memorable words: "What utter weariness!
As a woman, as a wife, I could have wept over so mournful a position; but now see, as a mother, I do not weep.
But without answering, Anne of Austria, fearful that in the crowd some inconsiderate expression might inform her young friend of the mournful event so interesting to her, placed herself with Marie behind the King.
Some strange bird out of the woods mademournful answer--"Never, never, never!
Having said this in a low gentle voice, she looked out into the street once more with her mournful unseeing eyes.
He read the epistle and gospel of the day to his betrothed; and afterwards some chapters of St. John--those profoundly mournful chapters that foreshadow the agonising close.
As he passed for the fifth time, he looked at the mournfullady still more searchingly, and this time the sad eyes were lifted, and met his pitying looks.
The sweet tender face came back to him, with its mournful wondering look.
Because you do not love me," said Gustave, with mournful gravity.
Not by one sigh, not by one mournful utterance of the familiar name, had he betrayed the depth of that wound which he had endured, silently, obstinately, in all these years.
His mournful meditations were suddenly interrupted by two figures who had silently crept up the stairs of the tower.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mournful" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
