If a shade of mournfulness hovers over the failure of the cause for which these brave men fought and many fell, it is not a mournfulness born of regret.
At that parting moment the mournfulness of this place, where she had hoped to find such delightful memories, filled her with distress, which was turning to positive anguish, when she suddenly heard an uproar of gruff voices and heavy feet.
Now that I was in open country and alone, I became more keenly sensitive to the damp mournfulnessof the night.
Then, affected to melancholy himself by the mournfulness of the twilight, and stirred by all the human suffering he beheld around him, he began to speak of his own torments.
Mournfulness pervaded the deserted room, dirty with saliva and cigar ends, and reeking of spilt drink; while from the hushed boulevard the only sound that came was the distant blubbering of some drunkard.
A dimness and a silence instinct with departed grandeur and infinite mournfulness reigned there.
The stone walls, however, were quite bare, the landings empty and solemn, and a death-like mournfulnessfell from the lofty vault above.
James looks at me strangely as I sit with Lina in my lap, and little Ralph by my side, there is a mournfulness in his face which wrings my very heart; doubtless he reflects upon the happiness denied him--ah!
Well, at least, I am grateful to leave this tiresome routine of lessons, and yet there is something of mournfulness in this abrupt entrance into life.
It is not his design to excite or to thrill, to waken comedy through whimsicalities or mournfulness by anything tragical.
When it seemed as if the mournfulness of the thirties would never be ended, Adolf Schroedter, the satirist of the band of Duesseldorf artists in those times, broke the spell when he began to parody the works of the "great painters.
The face, of which Pierre and Lucy so strangely and fearfully hinted, was not of enchanted air; but its mortal lineaments of mournfulness had been visibly beheld by Pierre.
But soon the mood passed from her; her old, sweet mournfulness returned; again the clear unfathomableness was in her mystic eye.
Pierre, who had thus far been vainly seeking to occupy his hands with his cap and spoon; he now paused, and unconsciously fastened a speechless glance of mournfulness upon his mother.
Oh, now methinks I a little see why of old the men of Truth went barefoot, girded with a rope, and ever moving under mournfulness as underneath a canopy.
But the tone in which they were uttered, and the sudden mournfulness and abstraction of her gaze, told him that emotions, both strong and tender, were working in her bosom.
The voice was not so strong as when he had heard it in Addio del Passata, but the solemn mournfulness of its cadences was better suited to the Stabat Mater, and indexed much that no other method of expression would have reached.
Enduring, almost eternal, as the burden of her desolation seemed now to have become, it was yet to be removed, ere long, by feelings of a tenderer mournfulness and a more resigned woe.
Her voice had altered, as she pronounced these words, to an impressive lowness and mournfulness of tone.
Amid the solemn mournfulness that reigns over declining Rome, this delightful elevation rises light, airy, and inviting, at once a refreshment to the body and a solace to the spirit.
As he now listened to the melancholy rising of the wind and the increasing loudness of the thunder, to the shrill cries of the distant night-birds hurrying to shelter, emotions of mournfulness and awe possessed themselves of his heart.
And it is in no class spirit, in no spirit but that of mournfulness and amazement, that the fact is repeated--that the virtual owner of this back cellar sat in the House of Lords.
The question, addressed with mingled bitterness and mournfulness to himself, aroused him from his reverie.
I can not describe the excessive mournfulness of the music.
In their mournfulness are they not almost like the wail of some bird distracted on the bush from which its nest has been harried, and then suddenly flying away for ever into the woods?
Her face was very lovely, but itsmournfulness remained.
After a little the other came and all the mournfulness went out of the tone.
Radclyffe was impressed, despite himself, by the solemn novelty of this language, and the deep mournfulness with which the soothsayer's last sentence died away.
We have wasted an hour over supper," he said, and there was actually mournfulness in his voice.
Garrick found that he would have to give time to the consideration of what this expression of mournfulness meant.
Her eyes lost theirmournfulness and blazed a black-red at him.
What had given that depth of mournfulness to her eyes?
