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Meanings of habitual melancholy in English

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Usage of habitual melancholy in English
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His habitual melancholy had assumed the ascendant, and the cloud had returned.
The Tiger Hunter
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Her idea pursued me continually, and I became the prey of habitual melancholy.
The Monk: A Romance
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But he soon fell back into what is, I suppose, a habitual melancholy.
The Upton Letters
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The habitual melancholy of her eyes vanished as they lighted upon young faces and infantile smiles.
The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family
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Aside from the sad, pained look due to habitual melancholy, his face had no characteristic or fixed expression.
The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete
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He held a crumpled note, whose contents, it seemed, had shaken him out of his habitual melancholy composure.
The Port of Missing Men
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Aside from his sad, pained look, due to habitual melancholy, his face had no characteristic or fixed expression.
Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Spri...
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These ballads have sometimes a spirit and boldness which presents noble relief to the habitual melancholy of this poetry in general.
Handbook of Universal Literature, From the Best and Latest Autho...
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The habitual melancholy he dreaded took possession of his face as he rose, adding, "Come, Tom, we must go."
Westways: A Village Chronicle
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The hand of Ebba lay motionless and pale in his, her blush passed away, and the dark shadows of her habitual melancholy returned.
International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1,...
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Yet the smile was not frequent; her lips had an habitual melancholy, and very often she knitted her brows in an expression of troubled thought.
The Emancipated
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Habitual melancholy is not always a mental derangement; it is very often a constitutional weakness.
Skookum Chuck Fables: Bits of History, Through the Microscope
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"Too true," replied the Elder, the smile which had just played over his pale face fading into something sadder than its habitual melancholy.
My Summer with Dr. Singletary / Part 2 from Volume V of The Work...
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