1
A night swell from the outside waters beat, its melancholy dirge on the frozen beach.
2
She paused in her most sweet song, and the whole multitude took up the melancholy dirge:
3
No one replied, but the melancholy dirge was still kept up by the widows in the rear.
4
Others, fresh from the pursuit, were gathering to the place; each taking up the melancholy dirge as he drew nigh.
5
The play is scarcely more than a series of melancholy monologues interspersed with not less melancholy dirges from the chorus.