melancholy.

The spleen draweth from the blood its terrestrial part, viz., the grounds, lees, or thick substance settled in the bottom thereof, which you term melancholy.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

The spleen draweth from the blood its terrestrial part, viz., the grounds, lees, or thick substance settled in the bottom thereof, which you term melancholy.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

The spleen draweth from the blood its terrestrial part, viz., the grounds, lees, or thick substance settled in the bottom thereof, which you term melancholy.

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518

Then he patted me on the arm, his expression melancholy.

Doppelgänger imago1 2008

He was looking into the distance, his expression melancholy.

The Second Generation David Graham Phillips 1889

Gary Jules' version of Mad World was used in Donnie Darko to great effect, and then used in commercials for the video game Gears of War in a more ironic manner, but both contain what Beth described as melancholy.

Tonight's Adam Lambert: "Mad World." Ann Althouse 2009

So I toned down my answers to make me look like a run-of-the-mill vet mired in melancholy.

john bennett | murmurs and shards « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2007

Nothing disturbs the quiet but such melodious sounds as the long iteration of a dove or the bleating of sheep – content hidden in melancholy.

The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing 1917

You will imagine I can have no attachment to it: yet a retrospect of my sensations when I first arrived, of all I have experienced, and still more of what I have apprehended since that period, makes me look forward to my departure with a satisfaction that I might almost call melancholy.

A Residence in France During the Years 1792 1793 1794 and 1795 Lady, An English 1797

When we were getting ready to leave, they were all kind of melancholy.

Into The War Zone 2009