| 1. | Chitling, with a melancholy air. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 2. | It is a melancholy consideration. - from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen |
| 3. | Boils round the naked, melancholy isle. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 4. | Only it's melancholy, very melancholy here. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 5. | A gentle melancholy took possession of him. - from Dubliners by James Joyce |
| 6. | It had brought melancholy across his passions. - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
| 7. | As he imparted this melancholy circumstance to Wemmick, Mr. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 8. | It was agreed to be done and a most melancholy day I passed. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 9. | There was a melancholy wind, and the marshes were very dismal. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |