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Definition of Elegiacally
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Elegiacally
Literary usage of Elegiacally
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. William Wetmore Story and His Friends: From Letters, Diaries, and Recollections by Henry James (1903)
"I have no right, I acknowledge, to reflect elegiacally on the fact that the Baths
have now been made (had then but ..."
2. The Far East (1906)
"they answered elegiacally, "outside there is no air nor light and we would die."
The industry of the Yao-tze is not great. In former days they made all ..."
3. Authors and I by Charles Lewis Hind (1921)
"... or elegiacally, how a Poetic Scholar feels in a turbulent world of which one
of the few sanities seems to be the cultivation of Poetry. ..."
4. Shakespeare's Dramatic Art: History and Character of Shakespeare's Plays by Hermann Ulrici (1876)
"... sentiment either revels elegiacally or is drawn within itself convulsively;
reason reflects and philosophizes, in place of merely serving the wifi, ..."
5. Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Isaiah by Franz Delitzsch, Samuel Rolles Driver (1892)
"Nor, for the same reason, is it unworthy of the prophet, who prophesies the
renovation and perfecting of nature to paradisiacal beauty, to mourn elegiacally ..."
6. Pictures of Travel by Heinrich Heine (1856)
"sighed he—" Italy sits elegiacally dreaming on her ruins, and when she is at
times suddenly awakened by the melody of a song and springs wildly up, ..."
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