He imagined it burning then, phoenix-like, rising from the flames with its melancholy cry: Kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I!

But then she was standing on sand again, with a grey mist all round her, and the melancholy cry of gulls echoing distantly.

Garion heard a strange, melancholy cry and raised his eyes.

From outside a cat uttered a melancholy cry to the moon.

A whistle blew, there was a long melancholy cry from the engine.

Hardly were the words out of his mouth than the melancholy cry of an owl came softly sounding from the battlements above.

A gull suddenly swooped to the sea, and his melancholy cry was like jeering laughter.

Then, of a sudden, terror seized those unhappy men, and, with a melancholy cry of utter despair, they turned to flee back to the Court of Israel.

And over their heads, gliding down from the Welsh hillside to the river and the sea, came a single seagull, keening its one repeated melancholy cry.

After a few moments, during which he is forced to dab at his face, for he has been unnerved by the melancholy cry, he strikes again with the coin.