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tristful

[trist-fuhl] / ˈtrɪst fəl /


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Again prevailed the tristful dirge of the pines.

From Under the Rose by Isham, Frederic Stewart

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

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

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

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




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