tristful
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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 MacKenzie, Compton
It has a very tristful and taciturn expression….
From Two Years in the French West Indies by Hearn, Lafcadio
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 Biese, Alfred
Why had Pat only given her tristful white pearls?
From Pink Gods and Blue Demons by Stockley, Cynthia
For God's sake, lords, convey my tristful Queen; For tears do stop the floodgates of her eyes.
From King Henry IV, Part 1 by Shakespeare, William