melancholy,

‘Mr Pinch, Mr Pinch!’ said Pecksniff, wheeling his chair about, and looking at him with an aspect of the deepest melancholy,

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"Come!" cried the Dandy, shaking off his momentary melancholy,

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If we interpret these as regards temperament, John is the type of the melancholy,

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One night as I was seated on the bench, plunged in frightful melancholy,

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"At six o'clock this morning," continued he, in a voice of gentle melancholy,

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Consumed with vain regrets, given up to the most gloomy melancholy,

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"No," she said, shaking her head with a pleasant pretence of melancholy,

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All along on the New Orleans and Jackson railroad I felt so melancholy,

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That unlucky fellow is heartily sick of his bargain, but you see he was too soft to withstand her throwing herself right at his head, and doing the "worm in the bud," and the cruel father, green and yellow melancholy,

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Such thoughts at times filled him with melancholy,

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