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  • O that I had had a Mrs. Beaumont to consult Well might melancholy seize me Silent melan-choly!

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • Could that have been effected, I dare say she would have been less reserved, as to the cause of her melan-choly; especially as her friends were all as indulgent to her as mine are to me.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • That he was afraid he had affected me too much, by the melan-choly tale he had been telling me.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • Whether the particularly cheerful behaviour of the young lady, on the departure of Mr. Grnn-disonjrom Bologna, after a course of melan — choly, is any xohere accounted for?

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • She spoke with a kind of melan-choly satisfaction.

    Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

  • The elf glanced at Wingover, melan - choly elven eyes curious.

    The Gates of Thorbardin Parkinson, Dan 1990

  • The elf glanced at Wingover, melan - choly elven eyes curious.

    The Gates of Thorbardin Parkinson, Dan 1990

  • The elf glanced at Wingover, melan - choly elven eyes curious.

    The Gates of Thorbardin Parkinson, Dan 1990

  • Talk hanging in the air among the long watches of supper Supper that evening had its discomforts, although Janet Westermark and her mother-in-law achieved an air of melan - choly gaiety by bringing two Scandinavian candelabra, relics of a Copenhagen holiday, onto the table and surprising the two men with a gay-looking hors d'oeuvre.

    Man in his Time Aldiss, Brian 1988

  • Oberon made her answer in a low and melan - choly voice.

    Huon of the Horn Norton, Andre 1951

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