tristful
Example Sentences
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But why these pensive tristful looks, now she hath her heart's desire?
From A Set of Rogues by Barrett, Frank
Suzette had tristful eyes when they rested upon this cemetery.
From Bohemian Days Three American Tales by Townsend, George Alfred
Late when the sumach's red was dulled and worn, And fainter grew the trite and troublous word Of tristful cricket, that replaced the bird, I sought the slope, and found a waste forlorn.
From Ride to the Lady And Other Poems by Cone, Helen Gray
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
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 Hearn, Lafcadio
