The posture and expression remind us at once of the katatonia which is symptomatic of dementia præcox and other stuporose and melancholiac conditions in adult life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nervous Child] Reference

If a melancholiac is able to do anything he wants, whom can he accuse?.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Stop Worrying and Start Living] Reference

She was as used to loneliness as a hotel melancholiac; the people they had known had drifted away to far suburbs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Innocents A Story for Lovers] Reference

This blubberer who had followed me home in the snow, yes this insufferable melancholiac who rained his tears into my Heaven -- Mallare would have killed him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fantazius Mallare A Mysterious Oath] Reference

A melancholiac’s first memory is generally something like this: I remember I wanted to lie on the couch, but my brother was lying there.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Stop Worrying and Start Living] Reference

But he's a sort of melancholiac.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Clarion] Reference

A sentimentalist, or a melancholiac.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Call of the Canyon] Reference