A nervous, melancholy air hung over their final retreat, held on the last weekend in April.

It exudes an almost melancholy air by day but gets busy at night.

There was a melancholy air, echoed by a young man, with hair to his shoulders, playing a Spanish guitar.

He drew a flute from the pocket of his dressing- gown and began to play a melancholy air.

All three of us had a distinctly melancholy air, despite the bright costumes.

"Then he had better be dead," said the princess, with a melancholy air, under which she concealed her thoughts.

How he has played with them with his careless and melancholy air!

He drew a melancholy air from the strings of his woodharp.

There's a melancholy air about him which isn't just the product of a day on the publicity circuit.

The gunner shook his head with a melancholy air.