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mournful-looking

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  • Han Cho describes figures in an autumn landscape, for example, as mournful-looking, gazing at the moon.

    Archive 2009-06-01 2009

  • Han Cho describes figures in an autumn landscape, for example, as mournful-looking, gazing at the moon.

    Shan-shui 2009

  • He passed a stall in which five huge men were dancing to the music of a lugubrious hurdy-gurdy being played by a mournful-looking black bear; he passed a stall where a balding man in a brightly colored kimono was smashing china plates and tossing them into a burning bowl from which colored smoke was pouring.

    10 Reasons Why I Hate the Movie Version of Stardust | Living the Liminal 2008

  • It was a lonely, mournful-looking morning, but when I reached the beautiful canyon of the St. Vrain, the sad blue became brilliant, and the sun warm and scintillating.

    A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains 2007

  • So quick was the revulsion of feeling, I had not time to cheek her triumph by reproof; ere I could contract my brows to a frown she had become serious and almost mournful-looking.

    The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte 2006

  • In 1968 both the Soviet Union and the people of Czechoslovakia put their hopes and trust in a tall, mournful-looking man with a faint smile, a man who had never shown great flair or imagination, which in any event were not qualities the Soviets encouraged.

    1968 the Year that Rocked the World Kurlansky, Mark 2004

  • My ragged appearance excited no comment and I proceeded to a couch, occupied solely by a mournful-looking youth with terrible acne.

    The Vesuvius Club Mark Gatiss 2004

  • My ragged appearance excited no comment and I proceeded to a couch, occupied solely by a mournful-looking youth with terrible acne.

    The Vesuvius Club Mark Gatiss 2004

  • 'Yeah, I'm fine,' lied Harry; but, next to this battered and mournful-looking Hagrid, he felt he didn't really have much to complain about.

    Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Rowling, J. K. 2003

  • A sallow-skinned, mournful-looking wizard lay in the bed opposite staring at the ceiling; he was mumbling to himself and seemed quite unaware of anything around him.

    Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Rowling, J. K. 2003

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