Meanings of mournful interest in English

Her younger brother surveyed the platter before him with mournful interest.

His eyes rested with a mournful interest, long and tender, on Allan's anxious face.

But she got used to prayer-meeting, got even to feel a mournful interest in it.

With mournful interest, and yet with eager impatience, I opened the packet and trimmed my lamp.

He rose slowly to his feet, bending upon Desmond a look of mournful interest and compassion.

The occasion had a mournful interest to many who had attended those meetings from year to year.

She looked at me in silence, with an expression of sad and mournful interest, which seemed to increase every moment.

Hermann Goetz, to whose life attaches a mournful interest, was born at Koenigsberg, Dec. 17, 1840.

The account of the ensuing operation is so tragic and full of mournful interest that I must leave it to another letter.

The party looked upon these mementoes of the terrible events with mournful interest, and had hardly recovered their usual cheerfulness when they reached the hotel.

This land, of present mournful interest, had fallen back, owing to the negligence or abandonment of its owners, into the wild character of primitive nature.

Harry Bernard's face wore a serious look as he took the blood-stained handkerchief from the hand of the detective, and examined it with mournful interest.

"His Tank!" exclaimed the captain, in tones of mournful interest; "and his Toad!

"It will rescue my name from infamy, and give me a mournful interest in the memory of my friends."