The pensive and melancholy hour encouraged gloom; but Venetia, who was sanguine, encouraged her mother.

This optimism, this quickness of humor, saved the Rabbi and his pupil from many a melancholy hour.

The ladies had reached that vaguely melancholy hour when they felt it necessary to tell each other their histories.

It was dusk when they arrived at Hurstley, and the melancholy hour did not tend to raise their spirits.

The time, sir, will come when you, in a melancholy hour, shall reckon up your miseries by your murders in America.

It was the most melancholy hour I ever experienced, and I have seen fields in the wan morning before many a throng and bloody day.

The effect of melancholy hours is scarcely to be found in Mozart's music.

Tears and prayers were my sole comfort during those melancholy hours.

Long and painfully melancholy hours passed, during which Mabel had no intelligence from June.

His misfortune may have made him embrace it as a resource in his melancholy hours.

Having much leisure and many melancholy hours, I again turned my thoughts toward the muses.

Still, she was usually cheerful, and always, even in her most melancholy hours, an agreeable companion.

But when, at last, they walked again upon land and were welcomed in Galveston by their relatives, all the melancholy hours were forgotten.

As I could not leave Geneva until the following day, I spent alone in my room some of the most melancholy hours of my life.

"Thou hast chosen a melancholy hour for thy walk, Signore," said the young Neapolitan; "and a still more melancholy scene.