melancholious

Waxy says she has him”—here the Rector shook his fist at the moon, with something very like an oath, and added, in a melancholious tone—“——, down in her will for fifty thousand; and there won’t be above thirty to divide.

XI. Arcadian Simplicity 1917

He appeared to be the "scout" of one of those prevalent and melancholious German bands, which, under Brooklyn's easy ordinances, are privileged to draw echoes of the past writhing from their forgotten recesses.

Average Jones Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

Dr. Surtaine confessed a melancholious inability to see what the devil business it was of Hal's.

The Clarion Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

On Hal's return from New York, the fat and melancholious advertising manager had exhibited a somewhat mollified pessimism.

The Clarion Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

He was a quiet man and for general melancholious, but I guess he could be amusing when he wanted to.

The Path of the King John Buchan 1907

We can never thank her sufficiently for cutting out endless pages of songs and recitative by the melancholious old Hermit who, in the original version, was to commence the opera, and wander in and out of it incessantly.

The Love Affairs of Great Musicians Hughes, Rupert, 1872-1956 1903

The melancholious man naturally is cold, covetous and heavy.

The Golden Legend, vol. 1 1230-1298 1900

Yow -- yow -- yow! in accents the most shrill or the most melancholious.

Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 2 Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2 Various 1885

In the same letter, referring to the King's obstinacy, and to the grief on that account which he believes to be preying on Henderson, he implores him to take courage, shake off "melancholious thoughts," and "digest what cannot be gotten amended."

The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 David Masson 1864

Page 510: The number 1 removed from in front of "Come, join the melancholious croon".

Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold Matthew Arnold 1855