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Meanings of melancholy cadence in English

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Usage of melancholy cadence in English
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There was a melancholy cadence in Dorothea's voice as she spoke these last words.
Middlemarch
2
At that instant a song of monotonous and melancholy cadence was heard in the distance.
The Wandering Jew — Volume 02
3
The melancholy cadence of the verse died away.
Robert Elsmere
4
The music of the pine-boughs had a more melancholy cadence, and birds of passage took their flight.
Atmâ / A Romance
5
There was a sad and melancholy cadence in her voice, corresponding with the strange and interesting romance of her situation.
Rob Roy — Volume 01
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His voice was low and clear, and of a somewhat melancholy cadence, going well with the pensiveness of fine, deeply fringed eyes.
To Have and to Hold
7
She then began, with a most melancholy cadence (her eyes streaming with tears and fixed upon the ground), the song of welcome.
A Narrative of a Nine Months' Residence in New Zealand in 1827
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The gled's cry rose once more, rose higher on the hill, echoed far off, and was twice repeated nearer head with a drooping melancholy cadence.
Doom Castle
9
Silver-crested peewits circled and cried with their melancholy cadences, and a tawny pheasant led out her young.
Gone to Earth
10
"Ah, to Europe!" Hudson exclaimed with a melancholy cadence, as they sat down.
Roderick Hudson
11
"I know she done somp'n; I know she done somp'n," chanted Tump, with the melancholy cadence of his race.
Birthright: A Novel
12
"No," said Peregrine, with a melancholy cadence in his voice, thinking of what it was that he did want.
Orley Farm
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"Peep, peep, pe-weep!" And nothing else would it say, but only, "Peep, peep, pe-weep!" in a melancholy cadence, and over and over and over again.
The Children's Hour, Volume 3 (of 10) / Stories from the Classic...
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