These pictures comforted her even while they saddened her, and she went about her work, feeling that it was now her life's work, and that she was in reality an old, old woman.
Hard by there stood a swarthy man Was leaning on his sword, And a saddened smile lit up his face As he heard the Captain's word.
Elcho, never look so gloomy-- What avails a saddened brow?
The smile of youth, though still pensive and melancholy, began to illumine her saddened features.
Mr. Crisparkle liked Neville, and all this saddened him, for he had not the least suspicion that Jasper was lying for a cruel purpose of his own.
His life had been saddened by blindness, his health enfeebled by illness, his domesticity troubled by his first marriage and his last, his desires disappointed by the result of political events.
It is the expression of a tender and very simple religious feeling, saddened by the obscurity which surrounds its object, and still more by the impossibility of proving to other minds that this object is a real one.
Love as saddened by the presentiment and the consciousness of change.
He parts from Paracelsus perplexed and saddened rather than convinced, but with a dawning consciousness of depths in life, to which his strong but simple soul has no key.
It breathes a tender regret for the moral injury he has inflicted on himself; and a high courage, saddened by the thought of lost support and lost illusions, but not shaken by it.
She had sat down and was resting her arm on the window-sill; and Miss Haye's face was in a state of humbled and saddened gravity which no one ever saw it in before these days.
And something of this saddened peace crept into the heart of the solitary figure crossing the moorland--on his way back to face a doom which seemed closing in fast around him.
The fruits of his later life had been the result of his early experience, but how embittered, how saddened by the unchanging gloom, which, at one period, had seemed as though it must dry up for ever all enthusiasm from his boyish heart.
The salt spray leaped up into his white face, and the winds blew against him, and the passionate cry of saddened nature rang in his deafened ears.
The dry, springy turf had become a swamp, and phantom-like wreaths of mist blurred and saddened the landscape.
I knew better than this, and walked on with them, saddened because I knew.
I was very much crestfallen, and even more saddened than humiliated.
The ring of pain in Lady Alice's voice saddenedand even affrighted her.
But, glancing at her, he saddened suddenly, for it occurred to him that the emaciated girl actually looked with her pale and transparent countenance more like a lunar than an earthly being.
There was something in the accent, in the saddened yet resolute expression of his countenance, which forbade all rejoinder, not from Sir Henry alone, but even from his own friends.
It is a pity, for you have saddened your youth, and you may never live to see accomplished what you have toiled for.
The Quaker hat and saddened drab worked upon the Arab mind to advantage.
Bertha was thrilled to the heart, saddened yet exalted by his voice.
Its despairing wail seemed to poor Oowikapun as the echo of the feeling of his saddened heart.
The wind moaning, the rain splashing, measured out long hours, till all saddened into night with little to notice, save the gulls and divers whom such weather suited well.
That it saddened her mind seems probable, but there is no outward evidence that she accepted her lot in a bitter or complaining spirit.
This lack of faith in personality saddenedall the work done by George Eliot.
We go forward to beat them up with all the joy and excitement of that golden time when life has not yet been saddened by the pale cast of thought.
She wrote that she would return to her old home some time, of course, for a visit; and letters such as this brought returns that amused Madeline, sometimes saddened her.
Then Madeline's quick sight caught a fleeting doubt, a wistfulness, a surprised and saddened certainty in his eyes, saw it shade and pass away.
A saddened party, we mounted, to join the main command; and, as we rode on through the rest of that desolate night, no word passed to tell the gloom that each man felt.
Bett's penurious loneliness read her a salutary lesson; her own life, saddened as it was, grew rich by comparison.
Polly, saddened and mystified by the sorrowful spectacle of three-piled woe, forgot all her saucy speeches, and blundered over her sympathising ones.
In spite of his acquiescence in Polly's decision, he felt chilled and saddened by the girl's persistence.
In a similar strain Francesco Guicciardini[175] says: ‘His death saddened the whole town on account of his reasonable and mild disposition.
Oft hath it saddened my heart, and it hath brought mickle grief to me that I had none.
Adiva greeted her with joy, but became saddenedas she told her story.
This thought saddened him, and many were the ditties wherein he bewailed, in true troubadour fashion, this mournful fact; but that he was a boy of twelve when she was a girl of seventeen did not at the time occur to him.
I watched, with palpitating interest, the course of the preliminary struggle, and was saddened by every new advantage gained over her by the ruffian.
I was saddened at the thought of losing the assistance of my kind mistress; but the information, so instantly derived, to some extent compensated me for the loss I had sustained in this direction.
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