tristful
Example Sentences
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Heaven's face doth glow, Yea, this solidity and compound mass With tristful visage, as against the doom, Is thought-sick at the act.
From The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times by Alfred Biese
It has a very tristful and taciturn expression….
From Two Years in the French West Indies by Lafcadio Hearn
The Autumn wind was booming round the plantation and sweeping up the broad path down the hillside with a skelter of leaves that gave a wild gaiety to the usually tristful scene.
From Plashers Mead A Novel by Compton MacKenzie
But why these pensive tristful looks, now she hath her heart's desire?
From A Set of Rogues by Frank Barrett
Late when the sumach's red was dulled and worn, And fainter grew the trite and troublous word Of tristful cricket, that replaced the bird, I sought the slope, and found a waste forlorn.
From Ride to the Lady And Other Poems by Helen Gray Cone
