Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.    From LearnThat.org.  [Sydney Smith (1771-1845)]

Growing more melancholy every hour.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

The adjective "melancholy" is correct, but it is something less than pleasure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Preface] Reference

Dream's melancholy is countered by the ever-practical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Immortals and Vampires and Ghosts, Oh My!: Byronic Heroes in Popular Culture] Reference

The source of Byronic melancholy is thus revealed to be the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Byron and Romantic Occidentalism] Reference

As the leaves fall, a little seasonal melancholy is in the air.    From Wordnik.com.  [Falling Leaves, Falling Spirits | Heretical Ideas Magazine] Reference

A bit of melancholy is appropriate during this momentous occasion.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Gwynn's long run of hits is ending] Reference

She looked off into the distance with an expression of melancholy.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Flight Up] Reference

I think de Lint tells stories with a certain melancholy in them very well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Book Cover Smackdown! 'Muse and Reverie' vs. 'Wings of Wrath' vs. 'Lesser Demons'] Reference

Why did he seem to be - if I might put it this way - encased in melancholy?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sports Reporting Hero Speaks Of 'Silent Season'] Reference

But his melancholy is expressed in — A voice divinely sweet, a voice no less.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

What does the word melancholy mean in the following line from "The Weary Blues"?.    From Wordnik.com.  [[Help] Most Recent Posts] Reference

I sit down in melancholy mood — So if you find me gloomy, be not disappointed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coleridge & Southey Letters] Reference

Mrs. Lincoln passed the rest of her life in melancholy that merged at times into insanity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Abraham Lincoln] Reference

It must be so, my friend, melancholy is not my climate, and I shall now live in your beams.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scottish Chiefs] Reference

One frightful thought summoned another, and made way for it, as is usual in melancholy people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)] Reference

You see, it is a story, every line of which is simply steeped in melancholy and yet it provides amusement.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Melancholy of Laughter] Reference

Wistful melancholy is impressive in its first 500 iterations, but after that, you kinda need something new.    From Wordnik.com.  [SeeLight:] Reference

Our family disposition to melancholy is a hard enough thing to manage under the most prosperous circumstances.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oldtown Folks] Reference

The loose and literary sense in which Burton uses the word melancholy is characteristic of the tone of his book.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Odd Sort of Popular Book] Reference

Withdrawing, he sat in melancholy isolation on a hen coop, and gave himself up, very appropriately, to brooding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mates at Billabong] Reference

For Lizzie and Harriet (sixty-six poems) detailed in melancholy fashion the dismantling of his marriage to Hardwick.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poetry of Heartbreak] Reference

Their melancholy is soothing, and their joy elevating to a degree I never experienced in studying the authors of any other country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 5] Reference

But Lincoln's melancholy is part of a whole life story; exploring it can help us see that life more clearly, and discern its lessons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lincoln's Great Depression] Reference

Sadness was dignified; it was referred to as melancholy….    From Wordnik.com.  [An Endangered Species] Reference

The melancholy of Saul is called the melancholy of the Lord, or.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theologico-Political Treatise] Reference

His voice is, in other words, a melancholy but often convincing one.    From Wordnik.com.  [PopMatters] Reference

This was to lead to the notion of melancholy as a disease of superior intellects.    From Wordnik.com.  [HEALTH AND DISEASE] Reference

With their music being described as melancholy, Wilson is anything but as he is in his element on the stage.    From Wordnik.com.  [FasterLouder.com.au > Australia's leading independent live music hub. Stock up on music and tour news, reviews, gig photos and idle gossip, or bitch to your heart's content in the forums.] Reference

His own marked tendency to melancholy, which is reflected in his face, seemed to respond to appeals of this sort.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lincoln's Inaugurals, Addresses and Letters (Selections)] Reference

"It's a sad story," said the child, in a low tone, as if her mind were recalling melancholy incidents in her career.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Dream Adventures in the Far West] Reference

It has even an air of gentle melancholy, which is not, however, depressing, but which inclines to thoughtfulness and study.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880] Reference

It is a prose full of young joy, and young power, and young inexperience, and young melancholy, which is the wilfulness of joy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Education of Catholic Girls] Reference

But that melancholy, which is excited by objects of pleasure, or inspired by sounds of harmony, sooths the heart instead of corroding it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vicar of Wakefield] Reference