Yeva inhaled the smells of flowers and burned cedarwood, a melancholy pleasure.

Pacco studied his reflection and nodded with melancholy pleasure.

On the way back they had the melancholy pleasure of setting off one more mine floating miles behind the sweepers.

He at last knew wherein he had failed, and he derived melancholy pleasure from the knowledge.

She had taken an important and melancholy pleasure in talking to the condolence callers.

It would be a sort of melancholy pleasure to talk to him again, and what harm could it do?

In a sense it was a dramatization of their loss, because all women, everywhere, take a melancholy pleasure in the display of their unhappiness.

Aillas took a melancholy pleasure from sending arrow after arrow into a six-inch target; his skills had not deserted him.

It is a melancholy pleasure to recall his traits.

There might be a melancholy pleasure in seeing the inside of one of the old boats again.