I will not say this melancholy circumstance afflicted me as it did her; but I am of opinion my grief of heart was painful as her tears.

The real serious part was the figure of the Duke of Cumberland, heightened by a thousand melancholy circumstances.

In obedience to my request Perdita detailed the melancholy circumstances that led to this event.

They have the gold of Kich in their purses, gold that melancholy circumstances prevented them from spending.

Quite as comfortable as we can expect a young mother to be, under these melancholy domestic circumstances.

The melancholy circumstances of the case are complicated by the disappearance, on the day of the murder, of the woman's young son by her first husband.

He mentioned that Van Gogh was not very strong, and so this was a very melancholy circumstance.

As he imparted this melancholy circumstance to Wemmick, Mr. Jaggers standing magisterially before the fire and taking no share in the proceedings, Mike's eye happened to twinkle with a tear.

From this melancholy circumstance, learn, sir, a lesson of morality.

His queen set out in quest of him, but was taken ill on her journey, and died, leaving an infant son, whom, from the melancholy circumstances of his birth, she called Tristram.