saddening

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So, whene'er I turn my eye Back upon the days gone by, Saddening thoughts of friends come o'er me,-- Friends, who closed their course before me.

From Hyperion by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Thou mimic Shape that, mid these flowery scenes,   Glidest beside me o'er each sunny spot, Saddening them as thou goest—say, what means   So dark an adjunct to so bright a lot—                  Grim goblin, WHAT?

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Rossetti, William Michael

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

Saddening, sad′n-ing, n. a method of applying mordants in dyeing and printing cloths, so as to give duller shades to the colours employed.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

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