His habitual melancholy had assumed the ascendant, and the cloud had returned.

Her idea pursued me continually, and I became the prey of habitual melancholy.

But he soon fell back into what is, I suppose, a habitual melancholy.

The habitual melancholy of her eyes vanished as they lighted upon young faces and infantile smiles.

Aside from the sad, pained look due to habitual melancholy, his face had no characteristic or fixed expression.

He held a crumpled note, whose contents, it seemed, had shaken him out of his habitual melancholy composure.

Aside from his sad, pained look, due to habitual melancholy, his face had no characteristic or fixed expression.

These ballads have sometimes a spirit and boldness which presents noble relief to the habitual melancholy of this poetry in general.

The habitual melancholy he dreaded took possession of his face as he rose, adding, "Come, Tom, we must go."

The hand of Ebba lay motionless and pale in his, her blush passed away, and the dark shadows of her habitual melancholy returned.

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.

Habitual melancholy is not always a mental derangement; it is very often a constitutional weakness.

"Too true," replied the Elder, the smile which had just played over his pale face fading into something sadder than its habitual melancholy.