tristful
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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
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
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
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
Why had Pat only given her tristful white pearls?
From Pink Gods and Blue Demons by Stockley, Cynthia
