Example Sentences

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Not that it was melancholy or even uncheerful, but simply serious.

From The Adventures of a Widow A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar

The captain helped her ashore, but it was a most uncheerful outlook.

From A Little Girl in Old Detroit by Douglas, Amanda Minnie

Talleyrand was by no means an uncheerful soul; but his genius, remarkable as it was, flowed between narrower lines, and was unwatered by that humanity which was Hamilton's in such volume.

From The Conqueror by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

Evelyn came in a few minutes later, pale and subdued, but not uncheerful.

From Captain Desmond, V.C. by Diver, Maud

But in Winter he was gloomy, Dark, and dismal, and uncheerful, And sat brooding as in anger, Robed in garments dull and heavy; All gay vesture now forsaken, And all music now forbidden.

From A Leaf from the Old Forest by Cossar, John D.