Pardon the melancholy thought, but the 2004 Summer Games will end a week from today.

In the evenings, she was carried into the garden "to divert her melancholy thoughts".

Under the influence of these melancholy thoughts, she became more than ever in love with sorrow.

It was a melancholy thought that this had once been someone's home.

He shook off the melancholy thought, and brought his mind back to the present.

A mind that is, I fear, oppressed by melancholy thoughts?

Let us postpone such melancholy thoughts until some future day.

But his melancholy thoughts would not be banished; they returned again to memories of murder.

"I'd rather not think about that melancholy thought," he said.

It's a melancholy thought that there will doubtless be a big demand for it.