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tristful

[trist-fuhl] / ˈtrɪst fəl /


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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 Biese, Alfred

Again prevailed the tristful dirge of the pines.

From Under the Rose by Isham, Frederic Stewart

A marsh it makes, which has the name of Styx,   This tristful brooklet, when it has descended   Down to the foot of the malign gray shores.

From Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Complete by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

"Whoever will give any information of these unfortunate, tristful gentlemen to the Hartford Convention, will confer a favor on humanity."

From The Second War with England, Vol. 2 of 2 by Headley, Joel Tyler

In the first, and in the new reading: Heaven's face glows with tristful visage; and, Heaven's face is thought-sick.

From Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies by Sherbo, Arthur