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tristful

[trist-fuhl] / ˈtrɪst fəl /


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Now she is drawn up from me, All my angels, wet-eyed, tristful, Gaze from great Heaven's gate Like pent children, very wistful, That below a playmate see.

From Poems by Thompson, Francis

Eyes so tristful, eyes so tristful, Heart so full of care and cumber, I was lapped in rest and slumber, Ye have made me wakeful, wistful!

From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

They took me to the county jail My tristful Kate pursuing, And all the way she sobb’d and cried ‘Oh! what have I been doing?’

From The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland by Various

It has a very tristful and taciturn expression….

From Two Years in the French West Indies by Hearn, Lafcadio

Ye have made me, ye have made me Querulous of you, that care not, Eyes so tristful, yet I dare not Say to what ye have betrayed me.

From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth