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    melancholy


    1. After all this melancholy solitude, after all this shit, I was going to die today


    2. I discovered in Menachem, for all of his worldliness, an almost constant source of optimism, whereas I, still feeling my way into manhood, could swing through the scales of euphoria and black melancholy with comparative ease


    3. "You'll do well with him but he'll bring out the melancholy in you, watch out for that


    4. as the sensual melancholy of the bandoneon


    5. Yarin was right about the melancholy, in those weeks she didn't learn what sadness gripped him


    6. Despite the bright sunshine, there is an air of melancholy neglect … similar to the atmosphere you find in a junk yard, where unwanted relics have been piled up and forgotten, unwanted and unused


    7. The progressive state is, in reality, the cheerful and the hearty state to all the different orders of the society; the stationary is dull ; the declining melancholy


    8. grown deeply melancholy with the tribulations he’d had to


    9. finally threw off his melancholy and clapped his hands as


    10. By afternoon, she’d lost all trace of melancholy

    11. Her smile was friendly and hopeful, but melancholy


    12. His voice was full of melancholy that was nearly tangible when he spoke again


    13. We both spent a good majority of the morning in silence, unable to break the melancholy mood


    14. ‘What trial is it?’ Alice panted as she ran; but the Gryphon only answered ‘Come on!’ and ran the faster, while more and more faintly came, carried on the breeze that followed them, the melancholy words:–


    15. Alice looked at the jury-box, and saw that, in her haste, she had put the Lizard in head downwards, and the poor little thing was waving its tail about in a melancholy way, being quite unable to move


    16. When they got back to the common room, Scott was feeling so tired he collapsed on the large reclining chair, the fear and despair finally giving way to melancholy


    17. Then the beautiful melancholy of a cliff-faced beach just after an October sunset; as if this is how life should conclude


    18. The state, by encouraging, that is, by giving entire liberty to all those who, from their own interest, would attempt, without scandal or indecency, to amuse and divert the people by painting, poetry, music, dancing; by all sorts of dramatic representations and exhibitions; would easily dissipate, in the greater part of them, that melancholy and gloomy humour which is almost always the nurse of popular superstition and enthusiasm


    19. As time went on, melancholy settled upon the flat children


    20. But the janitor emerged as melancholy and unruffled as ever, only

    21. 'What trial is it?' Alice panted as she ran; but the Gryphon only answered 'Come on!' and ran the faster, while more and more faintly came, carried on the breeze that followed them, the melancholy words:--


    22. It made me feel like I brought Bob with me or something,” I said sort of melancholy, yet I was still smiling underneath the mask


    23. Suddenly, my enjoyment with all the activity of the children playing and the conversations with our friends changed into the familiar darkness, even melancholy at the sound of Adam‘s voice


    24. The old Lowbridge doctor told Rosemary that he feared permanent melancholy or worse


    25. going into a state of psychosis from his disposition of melancholy he was being faced with


    26. melancholy as they floated through the crisp air


    27. Some had headphones on, possibly to drown out the melancholy singer with the trembling voice whose CD was currently playing


    28. his expression melancholy as he surveyed the scenery


    29. in the city often went out and lamented the melancholy distress of these victims, 13 was full of rage, and commanded that they should


    30. Provide me with rapture which when reflected in my verse can make a melancholy

    31. 1 The men took me on to the fifth Heaven and placed me, and there I saw many and countless soldiers, called Grigori, of human appearance, and their size was greater than that of great giants and their faces withered, and the silence of their mouths perpetual, and their was no service on the fifth Heaven, and I said to the men who were with me: 2 therefore are these very withered and their faces melancholy, and their mouths silent; and therefore is there no service on this Heaven? 3 And they said to me: These are the Grigori, who with their prince Satanail rejected the Lord of light, and after them are those who are held in great darkness on the second Heaven, and three of them went down on to Earth from the Lord's throne, to the place Ermon, and broke through their vows on the shoulder of the hill Ermon and saw the daughters of men how good they are, and took for themselves wives, and befouled the Earth with their deeds, who in all times of their age made lawlessness and mixing, and giants are born and marvellous big men and great enmity


    32. Moving with young girls made him feel youthful and brought him out a certain melancholy that pursued him from childhood


    33. The melody is tantalizing, with a hint of melancholy


    34. ” His voice fades, as if drowning in melancholy


    35. He was suddenly struck by melancholy at the thought of all


    36. However, he recovered from the melancholy well enough to have his two most promising sons executed


    37. 1 The men took me on to the fifth Heaven and placed me and there I saw many and countless soldiers called Grigori of human appearance and their size was greater than that of great giants and their faces withered and the silence of their mouths perpetual and their was no service on the fifth Heaven and I said to the men who were with me: 2 therefore are these very withered and their faces melancholy and their mouths silent; and therefore is there no service on this Heaven? 3 And they said to me: These are the Grigori who with their prince Satanail rejected the Lord of light and after them are those who are held in great darkness on the second Heaven and three of them went down on to Earth from the Lord's throne to the place Ermon and broke through their vows on the shoulder of the hill Ermon and saw the daughters of men how good they are and took for themselves wives and befouled the Earth with their deeds who in all times of their age made lawlessness and mixing and giants are born and marvellous big men and great enmity


    38. ” He said with hilariously exaggerated melancholy, laying his forearm across his brow


    39. While in the truck, he admired the beautiful morning, but was melancholy about Fred and Speed, as he remembered the great hunting events he had shared with his dogs


    40. Shaking of the growing melancholy that was trying to crowd in on him, Dryan pushed those thoughts away sitting up as he focused on Hadarah as she walked into the living room

    41. 12 When this was done the king hearing that their brothers in the city often went out and lamented the melancholy distress of these victims 13 was full of rage and commanded that they should be carefully subjected to the same (and not one whit milder) treatment


    42. The melancholy strains of Yesterday came over his earphones from the AFVN station he had tuned on his ADF


    43. Eight was in Canada with Marjie and Candace when he tearfully said in a telephone call to me, “I’m getting rather melancholy


    44. I often think about my devastated nunnery, and often my thoughts fill with a strange, melancholy notion


    45. of time when his lagging melancholy might leave the expedition


    46. And they wax the eyes of our melancholy days—


    47. of euphoria and melancholy that we experienced when it was over lasted for days and


    48. Chiron gave me a melancholy smile


    49. The melody begin on a melancholy note


    50. eyes that resembled moist green pools reflecting deep melancholy









































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    Synonyms for "melancholy"

    black bile melancholy somber sombre melancholic thoughtful serious sober depressed despondent dispirited disconsolate downhearted glum plaintive unhappiness depression despondency gloom dejection grief blues thoughtfulness seriousness sobriety

    "melancholy" definitions

    a feeling of thoughtful sadness


    a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed


    a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy


    characterized by or causing or expressing sadness


    grave or even gloomy in character