Mournfully

Examples

• All right, the gypsy said and sang mournfully, Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• As the low fire gleamed upon her, it showed her smiling, mournfully and abstractedly. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• That might do if I had my old trust in myself, said Lydgate, mournfully. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• So, Eliza, my girl, said the husband, mournfully, bear up, now; and good-by, for I'm going. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Yes, I fear we are cooling--I see it as well as you, she sighed mournfully. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• William, said Mr. Pumblechook, mournfully, put the salt on. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Tom was sitting very mournfully on the outside of the shop while this conversation was going on. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• I am afraid, Samuel, that his feelings have made him so indeed,' said Mrs. Weller mournfully. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The atmosphere was dense and heavy, while the rain fell in torrents on the heads of the mourners, and the wind whistled mournfully among the trees. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I followed her, and strove to inspire more hope than I could myself entertain; but she shook her head mournfully. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• It was barely daybreak, when, with a parting look round his room, mournfully wondering whether he should ever see it again, he went out. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Holmes shook his head mournfully. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• How mournfully the wind blows round us now! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Often and often she walked mournfully round the place where Haley's gang of men and women sat in their chains. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• She felt this night and prospect mournfully lovely. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• My dear young lady,' rejoined the surgeon, mournfully shaking his head; 'crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• I have been told an incomprehensible thing, she said mournfully. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Do not fear for me, replied the lovely girl mournfully, and do not imagine that without the consent of our chief you could be without these walls. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I cannot describe the tenderness with which he spoke to her, half playfully yet all the more compassionately and mournfully. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• We parted very mournfully in London. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I am very, very sorry, she added, mournfully. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Very provoking: it spoils the Set, murmured Sarah to herself, mournfully absorbed over the ruins of the broken cup. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Well, said Eliza, mournfully, I always thought that I must obey my master and mistress, or I couldn't be a Christian. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• I believe it, answered her father, mournfully. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Because although I was not what he thought me, still he loved me very dearly, and it might remind him mournfully of what be believed he had lost. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.

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