tristful

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• Suzette had tristful eyes when they rested upon this cemetery.

  Bohemian Days|Geo. Alfred Townsend

• In the first, and in the new reading: Heaven's face glows with tristful visage; and, Heaven's face is thought-sick.

  Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies|Samuel Johnson

• There are few sadder poems than this with its tristful refrain, even in the works of Mr. Hardy.

  Old and New Masters|Robert Lynd

• This tristful ideality is a note in literature not far to seek.

  Chats on Royal Copenhagen Porcelain|Arthur Hayden