Adjective : a mournful occasion. ,mournful shadows. From Dictionary.com.
Its fainter tones assumed a kind of mournfulness, and were finally lost in the hush and solemnity of the wood. From Wordnik.com. [The Blithedale Romance] Reference
And sank in mournfulness. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woman, With Other Poems] Reference
"Vengeance!" she said, in a voice of inexpressible mournfulness. From Wordnik.com. [Cord and Creese] Reference
The tranquil mournfulness of her night of solitude terminated in. From Wordnik.com. [Two on a Tower] Reference
But there wasn't any anger in her words, only a kind of mournfulness. From Wordnik.com. [Music To My Sorrow]
That deep shadow of inexpressible mournfulness had again crept into them. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Moody mournfulness seemed to hold silent awhile one not naturally taciturn. From Wordnik.com. [A Changed Man] Reference
"I understand you," said Brandon, with a more profound mournfulness in his voice. From Wordnik.com. [Cord and Creese] Reference
And in spite of all this, you were subject to feelings of mournfulness, of decrescendo?. From Wordnik.com. [An Autobiography]
An ominous mournfulness, far sadder than the pensiveness of twilight, drew over the sky. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862] Reference
Why had she never before noticed that his brown eyes could have that flickering mournfulness?. From Wordnik.com. [Flowering Wilderness] Reference
She sought excitement, passion, and after that the mournfulness which comes when passion dies. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Affinities of History — Complete] Reference
I loved the so-called Jacobeans, I mean, really a kind of hip mournfulness I really thought was great. From Wordnik.com. [J’aime le “peer pressure” : Stephen Burt : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference
"Never to see you again till I came back," said Despard, with some mournfulness, looking at the floor. From Wordnik.com. [Cord and Creese] Reference
"You are not the first man blinded by a pair of dark eyes, Edgar," said Adelaide with becoming mournfulness. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876] Reference
Now that I was in open country and alone, I became more keenly sensitive to the damp mournfulness of the night. From Wordnik.com. [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference
Its sustained mournfulness -- lyrical, anguished and full of yearning -- builds to an eventual, but only partial release. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Larson's 'The Saddest Music Ever Written,' reviewed by Michael Dirda] Reference
A sad and desolate place it was, a gloomy, sorrowful place that gave me a strange sensation of mournfulness and even dread. From Wordnik.com. [Bleak House] Reference
There is an accent of jubilation in these words, which would ill suit her grief and the mournfulness of the rest of her chants. From Wordnik.com. [Gueranger: The Mystery of Passiontide and Holy Week] Reference
Their dim, vacant eyes had not even the feverish glitter of hunger, but were full of an indescribable, impressive mournfulness. From Wordnik.com. [Creatures That Once Were Men, and other stories] Reference
He lashed them up and down grade, he drove perilously close to shelving declivities, and sometimes he sang, with maudlin mournfulness. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Plains] Reference
From deep down in his throat came first a low, weird sobbing that mounted steadily into a keening whose mournfulness made my skin creep. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon Pool] Reference
February 19, 2006, 8: 24 am texas hold em on line says: texas hold em online diluted condensation. mournfulness morsels Unitarian breaths. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » MEDICAL MALPRACTICE INSURANCE CRISIS:] Reference
The mournfulness of his spirits, and the gorgeousness of his appearance, might have made him ridiculous, but that his delicacy made him respectable. From Wordnik.com. [Little Dorrit] Reference
The beauty of the night touched him, and mixed these feelings with mournfulness. From Wordnik.com. [Evan Harrington — Complete] Reference
It doesn't shy away from its mournfulness and it makes no apologies for its bitterness. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
The tranquil mournfulness of her night of solitude terminated in a most unexpected manner. From Wordnik.com. [Two on a Tower] Reference
Istanbul he closed in even more on a tone of lyrical mournfulness that has come to seem his own. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Review of Books] Reference
The answer was a vacuous shake of the head, accompanied by an expression of unutterable mournfulness. From Wordnik.com. [Vittoria — Complete] Reference
Robert; and she was half a stranger to the mournfulness of the house when she set her steps homeward. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
Thea accepted the mournfulness of the prayer-meetings as a kind of spiritual discipline, like funerals. From Wordnik.com. [The Song of the Lark] Reference
They had seen cataclysms too vast for our imagination, and a mournfulness and a satiety were upon them. From Wordnik.com. [Don Rodriguez; chronicles of Shadow Valley] Reference
She lay stone-still in a trance of terror and mournfulness, mechanically counting the tears as they fell, one by one. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
My soul fondly dwelt upon the images of my brother and his children, yet they only increased the mournfulness of my contemplations. From Wordnik.com. [Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale] Reference
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