tristful
Example Sentences
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Now she is drawn up from me, All my angels, wet-eyed, tristful, Gaze from great Heaven's gate Like pent children, very wistful, That below a playmate see.
From Poems by Thompson, Francis
It has a very tristful and taciturn expression….
From Two Years in the French West Indies by Hearn, Lafcadio
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 why these pensive tristful looks, now she hath her heart's desire?
From A Set of Rogues by Barrett, Frank
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
