Meanings of sorrowful mood in English

I was in a sorrowful mood; I was leaving my mountains!

But, while he was in this sorrowful mood, he heard a voice close beside him.

Ayla made herself lie still, and instead of feeling tickled, shivers of exquisite fire followed his lambent touch, and dispelled her sorrowful mood.

She stepped across the threshold of Tailordom, won Mr. Goren's heart by her condescension, and worked Evan into a sorrowful mood concerning the invalid.

In this despairing and sorrowful mood he had entered the office, and awaited in vain for petitioners who would pay him richly for his services.

It seems to Joel that he has to continue now, when Samuel is in a sorrowful mood, when he doesn't look capable of getting angry.

What sympathy have I to offer in his joyous or sorrowful moods?

The spirit has great advantages over the body, though the body supplies many little repeated pleasures, which solace the soul in its sorrowful moods.

"Let us go to it," cried Uncle Blair, gaily, casting aside his sorrowful mood and catching our hands.