Tristeful

Unchanged the world remains.-⁠-⁠-The change is here; / In this sad breast,-⁠-⁠-this sorrow-sunken soul, / This tristeful heart, the deep, dark dungeon, where / Lie broken hopes and ever-during dole.

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Lady Katrine was there, with her “tristeful visage,” as Churchill justly called it, and more tristeful it presently became.

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The work has been called melancholy, and the impression it leaves has been represented as lugubriously tristeful.

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From this church tower during the still hours of the night, comes the tristeful cry of the watchman, “Past twelve, all’s well: bright starry night,” or “stormy night.”

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