Mournful

Examples

• To me, the remembrance of our last parting has been ever mournful and painful. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• But there was no reply to Wildeve's shout, save a mournful whining from the herons which were nesting lower down the vale. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Did you find poison, or a dagger, that you look so mournful now? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• For nearly a year I saw that face grow paler; for nearly a year I saw the tears steal down the mournful cheeks, and never knew the cause. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• While I watched, her eyes lifted to me a gaze more reproachful than haughty, more mournful than incensed. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Diana and Mary's general answer to this question was a sigh, and some minutes of apparently mournful meditation. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• As if it were any pleasure to me to think ill of you, said Mary, in a mournful tone. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The misery of a weak, helpless, dumb creature is surely one of the saddest of all the mournful sights which this world can show. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• You are at once mournful and mutinous. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Haley whipped up the horse, and, with a steady, mournful look, fixed to the last on the old place, Tom was whirled away. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• You are too mournful. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Very few whispers broke the mournful silence. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Antony gave way to much mournful posturing, varied by love scenes, during this last stage of his little drama. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Jerusalem is mournful, and dreary, and lifeless. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Moonlight, which I used to think mild, now only looks mournful. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I certainly, sir,' returned Mrs. Sparsit, with a dignity serenely mournful, 'was familiar with the Italian Opera at a very early age. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Will felt inexpressibly mournful, and said nothing. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• It looked on downcast faces, the images of mournful hearts. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• They laid them back on the lifeless breast,--dust to dust,--poor mournful relics of early dreams, which once made that cold heart beat so warmly! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• But now he heard, outside, the sounds of many voices, and long mournful howls, and mighty wailing. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• You have dropped into your old mournful key. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The luctuosa hereditas, the mournful succession of ascendants to descendants, to the twentieth penny only. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I am wrongly made, Thomasin, she added, with a mournful smile. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• He re-folded it, and viewed the writer with a strange, tender, mournful amaze. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Don't you be mournful, Grandfer, said Fairway. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• If it must be so, it will be a mournful spectacle. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• A fifth retainer, proceeding up the staircase with a mournful air--as who should say, 'Here is another wretched creature come to dinner; such is life! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• On the entrance of his friends, that gentleman laid down his knife and fork, and with a mournful air advanced to meet them. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• It was on the wedding-day of this beloved friend that Emma first sat in mournful thought of any continuance. Jane Austen. Emma.
• It was mournful, indeed, to witness the subjugation of that vigorous spirit to a corporeal infirmity. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.

Typist: Wesley