Profoundly discouraged, we ride on after this in mournful silence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys] Reference

This is a poem describing in mournful fashion the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians.    From Wordnik.com.  [RCIA Presentation: The Old Testament] Reference

She sat up, without attempting to read, write, or employ herself, patrolling her chamber in mournful rumination.    From Wordnik.com.  [Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth] Reference

They describe in mournful tones the image of the lonely CEO sitting in his office late at night filling out government forms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackburn calls Dems plan a 'nightmare'] Reference

'Ghosts Where Once We Hid' could be described as mournful, even grievous - but never negative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest reviews @ Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website] Reference

The narrative I have given, by recalling the mournful scenes I have depicted, has cost me infinite anguish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770.] Reference

He gazed round the table; he saw they were all waiting for his explanation, and his expression grew mournful.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Edge of Madness] Reference

The mine owners, recalls a mournful Zhang, were concerned only about concealing the deaths of his brother and the other miners.    From Wordnik.com.  [China's Coal Addiction] Reference

Beautiful, yet in mournful durance bound.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems in response to Jewsbury] Reference

Everybody waiting for help looks kind of mournful, like they did something wrong.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Mac Ad You'll Never See] Reference

They did not stir, only answered with a kind of mournful "Ah -- ah," to every thing he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California] Reference

Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Agh! Agh! raising their notes from the first OH! to the last AGH! in a kind of mournful howl.    From Wordnik.com.  [Castle Rackrent] Reference

The choir sang the anthem, a kind of mournful hymn or a psalm, maybe, and then the lights came back up and the preacher took the pulpit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sonny] Reference

Tell me not, in mournful numbers.    From Wordnik.com.  [April 2007] Reference

Teach me to tell, in mournful songs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thoughts on the Late Proceedings in France] Reference

She smiled to herself in mournful amusement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land] Reference

Smith nodded with a kind of mournful satisfaction.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prince and Betty] Reference

I am already watching the former with a kind of mournful interest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Foot-path Way] Reference

Mrs. M'Mahon had been looking with a kind of mournful admiration upon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two] Reference

The letter also mentions a recent "mournful" ceremony, without elaborating.    From Wordnik.com.  [Augusta County: Unknown (Probably L. R. Smiley) to Smiley's sister (Mary?), May 11, 1865] Reference

But he stood in the Gothic porch, watching the departing carriage with a kind of mournful tenderness in his face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Henry Dunbar A Novel] Reference

As they moved on, the group behind set up a joyful hymn in a kind of mournful chant, in which the tall man joined with a strident voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference

There was a kind of mournful pleasure in seeing the dear face once more. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Fenton's Quest] Reference

At Cooper Union, Bradley spoke in a mournful monotone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Buzz About Bradley] Reference

The mournful Ireland of the preboom '80s is forgotten.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sunset on the Liffey?] Reference

In Ramallah yesterday, the mood was by turns mournful and enraged.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letter From Ramallah] Reference

But it sounds great, down to the mournful strings on the Beatles '"Eleanor Rigby.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Mp3 To Go] Reference

When the doctor sent him for a blood test, and it came back positive for HIV, he was mournful.    From Wordnik.com.  ['We Wanted To Die Together'] Reference

Then he shook Chernomyrdin's hand and ducked into Air Force One, ending an almost mournful visit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hugs Aren't Enough For This Bear] Reference

At the podium, Kennedy's hands shook; his voice was reedy and often mournful, or hot and petulant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Worst Week] Reference

The song belongs to a musical sub-genre — practically a cannon — of mournful mash notes to the city.    From Wordnik.com.  [Strike Up the Band] Reference