"Tristful" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... quiet rest torn, her delirium over, Attis at once recalled to mind her deed, and with lucid thought saw what she had lost, and where she stood, with heaving heart she backwards traced her steps to the landing-place. There, gazing o'er the vast main with tear-filled eyes, with saddened voice in tristful soliloquy thus did ...
— The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus • Caius Valerius Catullus
... marriage-vows As false as dicers' oaths: O, such a deed As from the body of contraction plucks The very soul; and sweet religion makes A rhapsody of words: Heaven's face doth glow; Yea, this solidity and compound mass, With tristful visage, as against the doom, ...
— The Canadian Elocutionist • Anna Kelsey Howard |
