How To Use Mournful In A Sentence

Profoundly discouraged, we ride on after this in mournful silence. Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys
There is jaunty fairground music playing but one of the rabbits looks a bit mournful. The Sun
Their conjugal affection still is ty'd,And still the mournful race is multiply'd:They bill, they tread; Alcyone compress'd,Sev'n days sits brooding on her floating nest:A wintry queen: her sire at length is kind,Calms ev'ry storm, and hushes ev'ry wind;Prepares his empire for his daughter's ease,And for his hatching nephews smooths the seas. Mystery bird: Black-capped kingfisher, Halcyon pileata
The silence was broken only by the splash of an alligator leaping on some prey far below, and the mournful pipe of some jungle bird across the rivers.
The villagers all line the dock, tears welling in their respective eyes, waving a mournful farewell to the departing sailors.

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Through the blown scud the clamour of the bell came mournfully to us over the waves; in the blown drifts of rain we saw the bawley labouring to us. Movie Night
Hugh in mournful discourse with Edgar upon the nonappearance of Dr. Orkborne. Camilla
It was a mournful pair that hired a boat to take them to Saltash and acquaint the Lee family of the tragedy.
I'm not sure what melancholy instrument it is that carries this ponderous, mournful dirge.
It is a cautionary tale with wry observations about our decadent society entwined around a mournful melody. Times, Sunday Times
They arrived in the capital to the mournful wail of air raid sirens.
I am sure Jimmy would not have wanted us to be mournful.
She received, also, a little, though mournful, reprieve from terror, by a letter from Lisbon, written to again postpone the return of Mrs. Tyrold, at the earnest request of Mr. Relvil; and she flattered herself that, before her arrival, she should be enabled to resume those only duties which could draw her from despondence. Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
Moving out of the central, more restrained and mournful section into the reprise could perhaps need a little more direction, but the overall work is coherent, engaging and pays the listener well.
The exchanges were dynamic and carefree with both sets of defences mournfully looking on as they were outgunned and outmanoeuvred.
Far in the distance floated the sonorous and mournful cry of the imam calling the midday prayers.
It must be again said that we have not to think of "the pleasant place of all festivity," but of a few huts among the sand-banks, inhabited by Roman provincials, who mournfully recall their charred and ruined habitations by the Brenta and the Piave. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04
It stood near the window; its thick trunk, barkless, with a rotten heart, prevented the light from entering the room; the bent, black branches, devoid of leaves, stretched themselves mournfully and helplessly in the air, and shaking to and fro, they creaked softly, plaintively. The Man Who Was Afraid
It is a cautionary tale with wry observations about our decadent society entwined around a mournful melody. Times, Sunday Times
His own compositions are mostly fragmented, mournful affairs, stuffed with bursts of folkish melodies and oblique twists.
He recalled a broiled sea bass looking up at him with mournful eyes. The Impossibles
The answer is emphatic, the expression on the face is mournful.
She no longer beheld Theodore as one respited from death, but took leave of him with a mournful pre-sentiment that she should see him no more. The Romance of the Forest
He wore sometimes a mournful look, at other times an almost blank expression as he followed his beloved grandmother.
One brown knoll alone breaks the waste, and on it a few leafless wind-clipt oaks stretch their moss-grown arms, like giant hairy spiders, above a desolate pool which crisps and shivers in the biting breeze, while from beside its brink rises a mournful cry, and sweeps down, faint and fitful, amid the howling of the wind. Westward Ho!
And now, as we emerge from the pine-wood, a new Dolomite – a huge, dark, mournful-looking mountain ominously splashed with deep red stains – rises suddenly into towering prominence upon our left, and seems almost to overhang the road. Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys
The gums were full of budgies, skawking and whistling their parodies of songbirds; finches wheeled from branch to branch; two sulphur-crested cockatoos sat with their heads to one side watching her progress with twinkling eyes; willy-wagtails fossicked in the dirt for ants, their absurd rumps bobbing; crows carked eternally and mournfully. The Thorn Birds
It is a mournful silence, broken only by the eternal singing of the katydids.
He came over and sat by my chair, a look of mournful regret on his open honest little face.
Suddenly, the mournful sound of a cello filled the air. Times, Sunday Times
Dorothy Parker wrote for the New Yorker and Vanity Fair magazines with a caustic pen, but her biting wit also had a mournful edge.
For when we are deeply mournful discordant above all others is the voice of mirth.
Beyond Mr Jefferson's high black hat, through those tangled dew-drops of flame, Mr Goosevort saw golden hair glide softly through the oasis of bodies gathered vaguely round the stage, Mr Umberto and Mrs. Jefferson laughed again together, and Mr Howle's mournful ululation could be heard adrift a lake of rabble... golden hair turning away and fluttering into the shadow of a winding stairway. Mr Goosevort
In any case there is the war, a hilltop, a huntsman, and a mournful reveille to life - described in sentences so off-kilter and beautiful you don't know whether to cry out for help or just start crying.
Thus thought Maria — These are the ravages over which humanity must ever mournfully ponder, with a degree of anguish not excited by crumbling marble, or cankering brass, unfaithful to the trust of monumental fame. Maria; or The Wrongs of Woman
The mournful sound kept her awake because she felt mournful herself. The Secret Garden
`Is'sa lotta money, "he had sighed mournfully when adding up the costs. FINAL RESORT
In either case, she is no longer with him, another fission in this song of mournful departures.
Mournful, quietly ecstatic ballads alternate with more riff based, rhythmically insistent workouts.
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They played a cassette tape of mournful war songs. Times, Sunday Times
With that said, there's really nothing bad about this affair - it's mournful, haunting, stirring, elegiac…
Dressed in blue jeans and a checked shirt he had short cropped dark hair and a long, rather mournful face. HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
He stared mournfully at the bright strip which appeared to float in the cold air over the small table.
The mournful saxophone appears again in an interlude before the short second movement.
If you stay long enough, you will hear mournful strains from a lone bugle - it is played every hour in memory of the watchman whose trumpeted warning of an invasion was silenced by a Turkish arrow.
Mournful, quietly ecstatic ballads alternate with more riff based, rhythmically insistent workouts.
This is a poem describing in mournful fashion the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians. Archive 2007-01-01
Come back to Erin, mavourneen, mavourneen, and the grand resonant mournful horn of the mailboat in reply. At Swim, Two Boys
At 6 A.M., in the glory of the tropic sunrise, Mr. Maxwell and I landed in Province Wellesley, under the magnificent casuarina trees which droop in mournful grace over the sandy shore. The Golden Chersonese and the way thither
Thus, these mournful ballads emerge, gritty but glowing. Times, Sunday Times
Catherine hummed and sang a hymn that faded quickly from a cheery ode to a mournful dirge.
Short, mournful melodies emerge, like foghorns singing to themselves absent-mindedly.
The memorial at the bomb site featured mournful bagpipes played Amazing Grace after Marine Capt.
Such stirring events provoked a range of responses, and those printed here are bitter, mournful, vitriolic, and celebratory in turn.
He found himself sitting opposite Mei. They spoke very little. Occasionally they exchanged a mournful glance.
The funeral procession parades slowly through the streets, followed by a band playing a mournful dirge as it moves to the cemetery.
But very mournful was that fast day at Mizpeh, as the Jews looked along the hillside to their own holy mountain crowned by no white marble and gold Temple flashing back the sunbeams, but only with the tall castle of their enemies towering over the precipice. A Book of Golden Deeds
I washed that down with soda water and indulged in a slice of wholegrain bread with a thin slice of cheese and a smidgeon of honey and munched mournfully on an apple.
Or tear their name defiled from Slavery’s mournful page. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
WHEN summoned to tea, Camilla, upon entering the parlour, found Sir Hugh in mournful discourse with Edgar upon the nonappearance of Dr. Orkborne. Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
the young man stared into his glass mournfully
The first piece is an intense Prélude whose stabbing chords and mournful melodies sound like the work of an already mature composer.
The mournful Ireland of the preboom '80s is forgotten. Sunset on the Liffey?
A mournful adagio is sandwiched between the scherzo's reprise, deftly establishing contrast.
The curtain descended slowly amidst sympathetic sobs and silence -- the musicians themselves, deeply moved, no doubt, with the sorrows of the scene, mournfully resumed their fiddles, and struck up "ti _ti_ tum _tiddle_ un _ti_ tum Records of a Girlhood
He points out that the bandoneon, an instrument similar to the accordion, but with buttons rather than keys, came from Germany, but that skilled Argentine musicians made its mournful sound the signature of the tango. In Soccer-Mad Argentina, the National Sport Is a Lame Duck
He is mournful about such matters, which in my opinion, amount to libel and slander. Times, Sunday Times
The album occupies three basic spaces: sparse and mournful, prickly and lush, and rollicking, but no two songs that might fit into any of the three categories sound the same.
It's incredibly evocative, atmospheric and mournful yet never depressing.
Plunged headlong into joyful Christmas celebrations, Jack mooches around looking mournful and lugubrious.
Voices shouted below, accompanied by the mournful wail of a fiddle; and then, in countermelody, the lilt of a penny whistle. Masked
Decked out in psychedelic dusters or classic Carnaby Street fashions, she was statuesque and enigmatic, a combination of cool and casual that balanced out well with the mournful classics she crooned.
They played a cassette tape of mournful war songs. Times, Sunday Times
The driver said mournfully, `For some reason, signor, I doubt whether you're a friend to the Frasconis. A SEASON IN HELL
Its tone is consummately elegiac and mournful.
Groups of indris communicate with mournful and distinctive howls.
Their voices are modulated and trailed by a mournful accordion and occasional tablas.
The Teepee People, unpolluted by employment, gathered round a wood fire and chanted mournful tunes and ate barbecued chicken legs. THE PRESIDENT'S CHILD
As the sun went down, the pillared forest aisles stretching westward filled first with golden haze, then glowed with a light redder than Phthiotan wine poured from the burning beaker of the sun; and only the mournful cooing of doves broke the solemn silence as the pine organ whispered its low coranach for the dead day; and the cool shadow of coming night crept, purple-mantled, velvet-sandaled, down the forest glades. St. Elmo. A Novel.
The mournful sound kept her awake because she felt mournful herself. The Secret Garden
He led his victim away in mournful triumph, leaving the girls in a high state of indignation, and with a slight hope that Miss Monteneros might eventually turn out his consoler. The Semi-Detached House
Now, at the mere mention of his long-ago battle, Sy uttered a mournful howl, fell to his knees, and covered his head with his skinny arms.
Thin to the point of boniness, with a sharp-angled face, sparse graying hair, and mournful eyes, he was easily accepted by drug dealers as a likely customer to purchase a fix. I’ll Walk Alone
They mournfully gazed at the empty floor that was earlier that day full of brown eggs speckled with grey spots.
The mournful sound kept her awake because she felt mournful herself. The Secret Garden
As it turned out, I couldn't stand its mournful cries at night, and so, though I hated to do it, I had it devoiced. The Pet
We made a triangle with our eyes: me looking mournfully at Leo, Leo scrutinising the man in the denim jacket, the man watching me, leaning on a concrete bollard and chewing gum. That Saturday
Foremost perhaps is the gorgeous trumpet sections by downtown mainstay Frank London, though Rich Stein's percussion and Albert Leusink's mournful flugelhorn sound fantastic. Derek Beres: Global Beat Fusion: Songs of Wonder and Planetary Grooves
Colors tend to be exquisite, but in an unusual way, at once vivid and fading, as if a still-potent splendor were half-vanishing before one's eyes, introducing a vaguely mournful, even elegiac tone.
The fog and frost so hung about the black old gateway of the house, that it seemed as if the Genius of the Weather sat in mournful meditation on the threshold. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Stave 1 Marley’s Ghost | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News
Durant was thin, mournful and silent.
From this vegetable root hung the mournful _bromelia_, sometimes drooping down to the very surface of the water, so as to sweep our faces and shoulders as we passed under it. The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West
Send for cunning women, that know how to compose mournful ditties, or at least to sing them in mournful tunes and accents, and therefore are made use of at funerals to supply the want of true mourners. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
On seeing me, she wailed mournfully with a mixture of imploration to get her down and shame at her undignified predicament.
The church bell was tolling mournfully as the carriage entered the cemetery gate.
It is well known that if you seize a deer by this "holt" the skin will slip off like the peel from a banana -- This reprehensible practice was carried so far that the traveler is now hourly pained by the sight of peeled-tail deer mournfully sneaking about the wood. In the Wilderness
It had a brindle coat and a dark muzzle, on which the skin fell in mournful-looking folds. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
In a few minutes the signs of German havoc would be hidden behind stacks of crockery and household utensils, and some of the pale women we had left in mournful contemplation of the ruins would be bargaining as sharply as ever for a sauce-pan or a butter-tub. Fighting France
North is the farthest remove from home, a place where Frankenstein's monster wanders mournfully, distant from all the known safe world.
Their music ranges from the sweet and mournful to the highly expressive sounds of Eastern European klezmer, which is best described as jazz mixed with traditional Eastern European music. Anderson Independent Mail Stories
Ah, " thought Carrie, with mournful misgivings, " what is it I have lost? ".
He whistled a mournful, descending arpeggio.
A soundtrack of mournful chanting gives the whole work an elegiac quality.
Her parchment eyelids, more half-shut than half-open, drooped in a mournful farewell. A DEATH IN THE FAMILY
It was the wail of a thousand banshees, mixed with the mournful cries of wolves.
The mournful tones of his singing voice lend a depth of feeling to an otherwise generic hip-hop track. The Sun
It is a cautionary tale with wry observations about our decadent society entwined around a mournful melody. Times, Sunday Times
His reply was quite the most mournful plea for understanding I had ever heard in three decades of involvement in the crazy inexplicable world of racing.
I had no faith that those mournful ditties would deter the sharks. THE ROAD TO PARADISE ISLAND
But the mother looked mournfully upon him, and wished he had not come, and could not believe that a life which commenced so untowardly would ever be anything better than a burden to her, and a misfortune and misery to himself. Men of the Bible; Some Lesser-Known Characters
I heard a sound of woe, a mournful wail, the voice of one crying aloud in her anguish; yea, such a cry of woe as Naiad nymph might send ringing o'er the hills, while to her cry the depths of rocky grots re-echo her screams at the violence of Helen
And after so many years lurking mournfully in the shadows, who could deny Ford the chance to steal some of Daddy's limelight?
The silence of night was only interrupted by the cries of the “morepork” in the minor key, like the mournful cuckoos of Europe. In Search of the Castaways
As the wind kicked up, the plates and lids began rattling against the stone, beating out a mournful, otherworldly cadence.
Next came a double file of priests in their surplices, with a missal in one hand and a lighted wax taper in the other, chanting the funeral dirge at intervals -- now pausing, and then again taking up the mournful burden of their lamentation, accompanied by others, who played upon a rude kind of bassoon, with a dismal and wailing sound. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 France and the Netherlands, Part 1
He is mournful about such matters, which in my opinion, amount to libel and slander. Times, Sunday Times
‘We could really do with some of that spirit today,’ he says, squeezing the bellows to emit another mournful wail.
Britannia's mournful anticipation, that 'The shroud enwinding this my son is mine!' One of Our Conquerors — Volume 5
This terrible malediction no longer lets me be the tall dark handsome man I know I am,’ he continued mournfully.
A single figure stepped toward the pyre and a mournful cry of loss and sorrow tore up into the night.
South Africa is a sport-mad country and the loss of another sportsman is noticeable and the subject of much mournful debate whilst quaffing beer at the local.
Faced with his daughter's mournful eyes, he was a pushover. Times, Sunday Times
To mourn is to (1) feel or express grief or sorrow; (2) to show the customarysigns of grief for a death, to wear mourning clothes; (3) to murmur mournfully; (1) to feel or express grief or sorrow for. Making a place in the church for a lamentation
The memorial at the bomb site featured mournful bagpipes played Amazing Grace after Marine Capt.
We will say mournfully, in the presence of Heaven and Earth, -- that we stand speechless, stupent, and know not what to say! Past and Present
Like an old ethnography, the film's musical smackdowns are rich in cultural and racial stereotypes: Mexicans play a mariachi, Africans beat drums, a Thai man plays a mournful oriental flute.
Her wide mournful eyes and trembling mouth made him want to pull her back into his arms and assure her he wanted as much as she wanted. SOMEDAY MY PRINCE
And the hero fair will the sad giant dare And a red sword wield for the sad giant's shield On a mournful victory day. Storm Bringer
The mournful opening adagio is extremely haunting, images of concentration camps, trains and ghettoes speedily passed through my head as I sat transfixed listening to the Griller's superbly inflexed interpretation.
There follows a mournful Largo second movement that is, in effect, a funeral march.
Down came Mary on the opening chord; down came all those left hands, beating the air, and in chimed those young, mournful voices: – The Garden Party, and Other Stories
You get these crackpot ideas about helping people who come along to you with a mournful tale.
The in-the-round auditorium gains a chilling, vaulty acoustic for this scene, accompanied by mournful choiring. Times, Sunday Times
The turf was dry, the air was still, and although the woods were very silent, and looked mournfully bare, the grass drew nearer to the roots of the trees, and the sunshine filled them with streaks of gold, blending lovelily with the bright green of the moss that patched the older stems. Thomas Wingfold, Curate
In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry , the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
As the reader perceives, slang in its entirety, slang of four hundred years ago, like the slang of today, is permeated with that sombre, symbolical spirit which gives to all words a mien which is now mournful, now menacing. Les Miserables
a whole whose numberless parts are connected by a lowering, mournful, minacious tone. Rembrandt and His Works Comprising a Short Account of His Life; with a Critical Examination into His Principles and Practice of Design, Light, Shade, and Colour. Illustrated by Examples from the Etchings of Rembrandt.
He wished he had not come to England at all, or had come sooner; and hoped I would apprize him of the whole mournful story, at a proper season. Clarissa Harlowe
But his dropsical face, looming from the billboards in Libya's cities, has grown more mournful and deranged as the political structures he conjured up have degenerated. Libya: Gaddafi's destructive path | Editorial
From her window she gazed upon the garden below, shewn faintly by the moon, rising over the tops of the palm-trees, and, at length, the calm beauty of the night increased a desire of indulging the mournful sweetness of bidding farewel to the beloved shades of her childhood, till she was tempted to descend. The Mysteries of Udolpho
Her voice dissolves among the slowly strummed guitar, brushed drums and mournful fiddle.
From a whooshing, gurgling still comes the ringing, plaintive and mournful.
Nothing supports this claim as convincingly as the meditative ‘The Music Plays Itself,’ where limpid guitars reverberate mournfully over railroad noise and faded electronic scratch.
It is a cautionary tale with wry observations about our decadent society entwined around a mournful melody. Times, Sunday Times
The field was a certain distance out of the clachan, and four persons, disguised as countrymen, who had been out on the moors all night, met this mournful drove of slaves, compelled by the four soldiers to work for the ruin of their friend. Lay Morals
The ship's foghorn sounded mournfully into the mist.
Menacing clouds of reverberating discord give way to toy piano chimes synchronized with chirping melodica, booming bass drum, and mournfully wheezing harmonium, all oddly juxtaposed with Steinke's warm guitar melodies. Bill Bush: Distinct of a Decade and Definitive of an Era: This Artweek.LA (June 27-July 3)
No modern lyceum will ever equal thy glory: whether in soft pastorals thou didst sing the flames of pampered apprentices and coy cook-maids; or mournful ditties of departing lovers; or if to Mæonian strains thou raisedst thy voice, to record the stratagems, the arduous exploits, and the nocturnal scalade of needy heroes, the terror of your peaceful citizens, describing the powerful English Satires
They describe in mournful tones the image of the lonely CEO sitting in his office late at night filling out government forms. Blackburn calls Dems plan a 'nightmare'
On a less mournful note he keeps pigs at his home in New England - just as the Prendergast family did when they lived in Fulford.
The driver said mournfully, `For some reason, signor, I doubt whether you're a friend to the Frasconis. A SEASON IN HELL
Once in the evening, after we had been picnicking, he phoned me at home and said mournfully, I am feeling low. Henry’s Demons
It was followed by a mournful decrescendo that filled the clearing with sadness.
Ruby's voice was bathetically mournful, She must be ripped; at a late party she was bound to be. I Don’t Understand ?
Weary muscles complain mournfully, yet the heart's spirit overcomes sensations of pain, knowing that limberness shall soon follow a quick morning warm-up and stretch.
As an aid to public speaking I was taught to "elocute," and I remember in every mournful detail the occasion on which I gave my first recitation. The Story of a Pioneer
She sat up, without attempting to read, write, or employ herself, patrolling her chamber in mournful rumination. Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
This is never so ruinous than in the case of ghostly Mae Nak Pornthip Papanai, a suitably mournful spook who is given a JU-ON style edentulous maw that knocked me each time right out of the picture. Who's that Naking?
Forty-four tunes ranging from the early jazz stompers, showboat classics and fragile swing numbers to her mournful - almost unbearable - masterpiece Strange Fruit.
The term Camelot was coined, in mournful retrospect, by Theodore H. In the Shadow of the Oval Office
The dog gave a mournful howl.
He gazed earnestly and mournfully upon them, and when he entered his prison, again enquired concerning them, but the same inflexible silence was preserved on the subject. The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne: A Highland Story
Winter was over but there was room for a twinge of regret, it seemed to me, and a little mournful Polish fatalism.
Check not my fpeed where fecial joys invite I The troubled vifion caft a mournful glance. The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical
Don Quijote decides to imitate Amadís's mournful madness, and tears a long piece off his shirt tails, making knots in it to use as a rosary.
Their flamboyant style contrasted with established mournful acts on the shortlist, such as Radiohead and Coldplay.
stared with mournful eyes
Or tear their name defiled from Slavery's mournful page. Mosaics of Grecian History
A voiceover started up, relaying a message of mournful defiance - I have completely forgotten what it said.
The tolling of the Shinto bell echoed through the room, a mournful commentary on the Western-style suicide. FLOATING CITY
`It's really too bad about your blanky, Sam," Anastasia said in a soft, mournful voice. ANASTASIA KRUPNIK (3-IN-1)
Instead of mournfully reflecting on their mined lives, they ‘behaved as if they were in a schoolroom.’
In a country with almost no vehicles on its roads, one of the commonest sights is a group of soldiers from the Korean People's Army, peering mournfully into the innards of a broken-down transport.
I liked it not more than he did that his country hounds had for two days bayed mournfully. Perquampi
St. Gertrude was once saying the Divine Office with the other virgins of her monastery, and was striving to pronounce every word attentively, but since she was often distracted through human infirmity, she said mournfully to herself, "And what fruit can be derived from this endeavour, which is combined with so much inconstancy? Spiritual Works of Louis of Blois
As if in mournful counterpoint to his own grief, the boy heard the clear, sorrowful notes of an alto sax keening and sobbing out a blues melody.
The second alphabetical elegy is set to the same mournful tune with the former, and the substance of it is much the same; it begins with Ecah, as that did, How sad is our case! Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
There is a dove who occasionally sits and coos mournfully on the roof, but I don't think he's fixed up.
‘We're not going to be all mournful,’ her husband Rob said before the funeral.
He is mournful about such matters, which in my opinion, amount to libel and slander. Times, Sunday Times
Quite obviously, there is a deeply mournful element to the novel.
They pursed their lips, tut-tutted at appropriate times, murmured mournfully and commiserated gently. FINAL RESORT
The mournful spectacle of a divided Christendom; of rival sects compassing land and sea to make proselytes; of the spiritual alienation of those who, in reality, belong to the one divine family; of waste and inefficiency in methods of evangelical effort; not to mention the error, pride, and worldliness inherent in the gigantic ecclesiastical systems known as denominational churches. The Last Reformation
The tone was mournful and the personality of each of the retiring players was written on their faces as they watched from the dressing-room balcony. Times, Sunday Times
She tilts her head at a mournful angle. Times, Sunday Times
Ms. Kim plays a mournful noblewoman from Korea's Joseon Dynasty who later becomes a slave in China.
Why are they not all at home, singing mournful songs? Times, Sunday Times
Everett had a very deep bass voice that sounded perpetually gloomy and mournful when a person wasn't used to him.
Granted, the band is still on one hell of a roll on this album, as opener "Jotun" soundly attests, one of the finest encapsulations of the Gothenburg sound ever put on record, Strömblad's mournful melodies working in direct contrast to the bracing gallop set by drummer Gelotte and bassist Johan Larsson. PopMatters
Sirens wailed their mournful dirge as they raced towards the hotel.
The mournful sound kept her awake because she felt mournful herself. The Secret Garden
Come back to Erin, mavourneen, mavourneen, and the grand resonant mournful horn of the mailboat in reply. At Swim, Two Boys
Perhaps it was the heat, the lack of dinner in my belly, or some deep animal instinct, but I suddenly felt the urge to tip my head back and howl like a mournful dog.
He had a careworn face, moon-shaped and mournful; his attire was severe but did not quite fit. DEVIL'S BRIDE
The whole settlement echoed to the mournful wailing until the sound died away quite suddenly. THE LAST OF THE GENTLEMEN ADVENTURERS: Coming of Age in the Arctic
Digital processing morphs the clarinet's mournful tones into deep sinewave swoops, zooms in on the crackle of spit on the reed or squeezes out didgeridoo-like overtones.
Number Two Court may be colloquially known as the graveyard of champions but the mournful mood was only allowed to descend when football was mentioned.
The stranger, after listening for a moment, joined in the mournful dirge.
The church was quiet except for the mournful organ and the rustling sound adults made at times like this.

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