tristful
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
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
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