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Meanings of mournfulness in английском

A state of gloomy sorrow.

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        Examples for "sorrowfulness"
        Examples for "sorrowfulness"
        1
        When she looked around it was with a sorrowfulness as of farewell.
        Nocturne
        2
        There was no sense of gloom or sorrowfulness in her company.
        Henry Brocken / His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange,...
        3
        He was grave, but he did not resent her sorrowfulness.
        The Precipice: A Novel
        4
        As the eyes rested on him their sorrowfulness seemed to be shot with humour.
        Huntingtower
        5
        The flute-like sorrowfulness of the organ thrills through my blood; my nerves vibrate in responsive echo.
        Hunger
        Usage of mournfulness in английском
        1
        A mournfulness was over the place, like the terror of a contagion.
        The Nabob
        2
        He would howl in twenty different strains of mournfulness, at my bidding.
        Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist (A Fragment)
        3
        The beauty of the night touched him, and mixed these feelings with mournfulness.
        Evan Harrington — Complete
        4
        She looked at me with indescribable mournfulness and shook her head.
        A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder
        5
        Her eyes lost their mournfulness and blazed a black-red at him.
        The Moccasin Maker
        6
        That deep shadow of inexpressible mournfulness had again crept into them.
        Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 / Devoted to Lit...
        7
        Don't preach woe, punishment, and all mournfulness to the people all the time.
        The Young Man and the World
        8
        The tranquil mournfulness of her night of solitude terminated in a most unexpected manner.
        Two on a Tower
        9
        An ominous mournfulness, far sadder than the pensiveness of twilight, drew over the sky.
        The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 / A Magazi...
        10
        Our caravan travelled with the mournfulness of a funeral procession.
        Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy
        11
        A dimness and a silence instinct with departed grandeur and infinite mournfulness reigned there.
        The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 1
        12
        Her eyes roved the dim, cluttered room with studied mournfulness, and she said, presently:
        Bertram Cope's Year
        13
        She sought excitement, passion, and after that the mournfulness which comes when passion dies.
        Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion. Volume 1
        14
        He made a decrescendo tinkling, and his lofty features lapsed into their normal mournfulness.
        Romance
        15
        He is looking at me with a fixed, pathetic mournfulness.
        Nancy: A Novel
        16
        What had given that depth of mournfulness to her eyes?
        The Moccasin Maker
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