And Morven passing through the forest one evening, saw the younger of the two, who was a great hunter, sitting mournfully under an oak, and looking with musing eyes upon the ground.
Then the voice ceased, and a cloud passed over the star; and I communed with myself, and came, O dread fathers, mournfully unto you.
Harrington, looking mournfully down on the white face at his feet, "God help her!
The poor little hound, after pulling at her garments with piteous whines, set up a howl that rangmournfully over the snow waste around.
Mrs. Harrington made the best of her way down the footpath which she had threaded, though the hollow was filled with gloom, and the whippowil called mournfully after her as she went.
Mabel sat down upon the bed, the most dreary thing there; she looked mournfully around.
The signature of Desaix, who negotiated it, was mournfully wrung from him, after he had required from the general-in-chief a formal order to put his name to it.
Your Majesty has nothing more to do than to designate the king whom you destine for Spain," mournfully wrote the lieutenant-general on the morning of the 3rd; "this king will reign without obstacle.
The window was open, and he could hear the funeral bell tolling mournfully at intervals.
The king gazed mournfully at her beautiful, flushed face, and her cheerfulness only increased his melancholy.
And here too were desolation and decay; the dead leaves rustled mournfully beneath my feet, and there were lurking shadows among the trees.
Her features seemed to sink and wither, and on either side of her face her long hair hung mournfully down; she sat crestfallen and musing, exactly like a woman taken in sin in some old picture.
Little birds, returning to their roosts, complained mournfully that their dreams had been disturbed, and a great owl from the top of a lofty elm hooted his rage.
But very, very mournfully came this year in; for it opened with the loss of Calais.
Her companion, too, gazed mournfully at her, with eyes to which the tears seemed about to start.
Long andmournfully we bewailed our separation; fervently we vowed to love until death.
On entering, William stood for a few moments at the door, mournfully contemplating this touching picture.
She went to the window, leaned out as on the previous evening, and looked mournfully around.
The other half leaning mournfully on one side bent down its branches to the ground, trailing a wealth of long, glossy green leaves in the dust of the ruined city.
Behind him came the mother, and now they went down the gangway with funeral steps; the woman's thin black shawl hungmournfully about her, and she held her handkerchief to her mouth; she was crying still.
Then she turned and went mournfully along the quay.
The crying of children which drifted so mournfully out of the long corridors whenever a door was opened turned to a feeble clucking every time some belated mother came rushing home from work to clasp the little one to her breast.
Valentine mournfully shook her head, but said nothing.
Drank some coffee and next found myself slowly, mournfully putting on hat and coat.
Farewell, Basil," I mournfully said; "God knoweth for how long.
The words she had so mournfully spoken the day before came into my mind, "I shall never be like myself again, and there shall be no more joy in this house.
And for many weeks the unhappy O Lalala sat mournfully on the beach, gazing at the empty sea and longing for a schooner to carry him away.
This tree is older than our people," said Strong in Battle, mournfully regarding its prostrate length.
Wolves howled mournfullythrough the woods and the valleys.
Stephen did not long survive the falling on "evil days and evil tongues," of which Milton, in the same predicament, so mournfully complains.
No flaw was to be found, and Fairbrother mournfully intimated, that he had nothing to say in arrest of judgment.
OUR LACK OF GREAT MEN It is often mournfullyreiterated that the present age is not an age of great men, and I have sometimes wondered if it is true.
Half gratefully and half mournfully he disengaged himself, not because he did not believe in his principles, but because he saw that the difficulties were insuperable.
Huge knots of seaweed hung upon the jagged and pointed stones, trembling in every breath of wind; and the green ivy clung mournfully round the dark and ruined battlements.
Bladud, clasping his hands, and mournfully raising his eyes towards the sky, "would that my wanderings might end here!
They shook their heads mournfully in reply to my question, and desired me to be as calm as possible, for my life hung on a very thread.
Agnes reclined her head mournfully upon my shoulder, and by the light of the Moon I saw tears flowing down her cheek.
After some minutes the Youth raised his eyes, and fixed them mournfully upon the opposite Wall.
O, how mournfully sounded in Ruth's ears those plaintive words, "I want to be alone.
Below, where the city spread towards the plain, were yet seen the shattered and roofless columns of the once celebrated Temple of Fortune; and still the immemorial olives clustered grey and mournfully around the ruins.
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