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Examples
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O that I had had a Mrs. Beaumont to consult Well might melancholy seize me Silent melan-choly!
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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.
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That he was afraid he had affected me too much, by the melan-choly tale he had been telling me.
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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?
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She spoke with a kind of melan-choly satisfaction.
Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997
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The elf glanced at Wingover, melan - choly elven eyes curious.
The Gates of Thorbardin Parkinson, Dan 1990
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The elf glanced at Wingover, melan - choly elven eyes curious.
The Gates of Thorbardin Parkinson, Dan 1990
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The elf glanced at Wingover, melan - choly elven eyes curious.
The Gates of Thorbardin Parkinson, Dan 1990
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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
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Oberon made her answer in a low and melan - choly voice.
Huon of the Horn Norton, Andre 1951
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