tristful
Example Sentences
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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 Compton MacKenzie
Suzette had tristful eyes when they rested upon this cemetery.
From Bohemian Days Three American Tales by George Alfred Townsend
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
"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 Joel Tyler Headley
Carmelo, as he crouched at the tiller, was singing, in a low, clear alto, some tristful little melody.
From Chita: a Memory of Last Island by Lafcadio Hearn
