tristful
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They took me to the county jail My tristful Kate pursuing, And all the way she sobb’d and cried ‘Oh! what have I been doing?’
From The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland by Various
But if I here could see the tristful soul Of Guido, or Alessandro, or their brother, For Branda's fount I would not give the sight.
From Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Complete by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
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
But why these pensive tristful looks, now she hath her heart's desire?
From A Set of Rogues by Barrett, Frank
Ye have made me, ye have made me Querulous of you, that care not, Eyes so tristful, yet I dare not Say to what ye have betrayed me.
From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth