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Melancholy
"Melancholy" in a Sentence (19 examples)
Hence, loathed melancholy.
We sensed a melancholy note in his voice.
He was overcome by a feeling of melancholy.
Her words were filled with melancholy.
She fell prey to melancholy.
You are truly an antidote for my melancholy.
And then I breathe a sigh from melancholy in being unable to do anything about it.
It's a unique device able to make stress and melancholy vanish.
I don't want to read the Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.
Bach could transform music into pure melancholy.
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Melancholy, cold and dry, thick, black, and sour, […] is a bridle to the other two hot humours, blood and choler, preserving them in the blood, and nourishing the bones.
My mind was troubled with deep melancholy.
I have neither the scholar’s melancholy, which is emulation; nor the musician’s, which is fantastical; nor the courtier’s, which is proud; nor the soldier’s, which is ambitious; nor the lawyer’s, which is politic; nor the lady’s, which is nice; nor the lover’s, which is all these; but it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and, indeed, the sundry contemplation of my travels; in which my often rumination wraps me in a most humorous sadness.
"The ancients referred melancholy to the mind, the moderns make it matter of digestion—to either case my plan applies," said Lady Mandeville.
As to Ernest... He is quite as nervously broken down as I am but it manifests itself in different ways. His inclination is towards megalomania and mine towards melancholy.
Melancholy people don't talk much.
[…] he is melancholy without cause, and merry against the hair: […]
“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. […] And then, when you see [the senders], you probably find that they are the most melancholy old folk with malignant diseases. […]”
It was the same old song / With a melancholy sound
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