saddening
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So, whene'er I turn mine eye Back upon the days gone by, Saddening thoughts of friends come o'er me, Friends that closed their course before me.
From The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation by Carman, Bliss
Saddening were the brief and almost unvaried histories recorded on its unpretending monuments.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 by Various
Saddening it is when the night has descended, Thus to sit here, Pensively musing on episodes ended Many a year.
From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert
Saddening: To obtain a fuller black the dyed cotton is sent through a bath of 1½ lb. of copperas, then washed well.
From The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student by Beech, Franklin
Ironing or Saddening: Prepare a bath with 3½ gallons nitrate of iron, 80° Tw.
From The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student by Beech, Franklin