tristful
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Eyes so tristful, eyes so tristful, Heart so full of care and cumber, I was lapped in rest and slumber, Ye have made me wakeful, wistful!
From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Again prevailed the tristful dirge of the pines.
From Under the Rose by Isham, Frederic Stewart
It has a very tristful and taciturn expression….
From Two Years in the French West Indies by Hearn, Lafcadio
But why these pensive tristful looks, now she hath her heart's desire?
From A Set of Rogues by Barrett, Frank
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 Cone, Helen Gray