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MOURNFULLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a mournful manner
Example:
the young man stared into his glass mournfully
Classified under:
Pertainym:
mournful (filled with or evoking sadness)
Context examples:
Here a yellow stream flows from rotted moose-hide sacks and sinks into the ground, with long grasses growing through it and vegetable mould overrunning it and hiding its yellow from the sun; and here he muses for a time, howling once, long and mournfully, ere he departs.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
But I must say that when I was going on with a story in the dark that night, Mr. Mell's old flute seemed more than once to sound mournfully in my ears; and that when at last Steerforth was tired, and I lay down in my bed, I fancied it playing so sorrowfully somewhere, that I was quite wretched.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Their report was, that Mr. Barkis was as bad as bad could be; that he was quite unconscious; and that Mr. Chillip had mournfully said in the kitchen, on going away just now, that the College of Physicians, the College of Surgeons, and Apothecaries' Hall, if they were all called in together, couldn't help him.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Probably only in an increase, had that been possible, of the romantic feelings of fidelity and friendship with which I walked beside him, over the dark wintry sands towards the old boat; the wind sighing around us even more mournfully, than it had sighed and moaned upon the night when I first darkened Mr. Peggotty's door.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
