Friends, and even strangers sometimes, opened their hearts and their purses when they heard Ariel's melancholy story.

They trade melancholy stories of past seductions as a means of seducing each other.

Both tell riveting but melancholy stories.

Annie Proulx is known for her melancholy stories about the lives of ordinary middle-class people.

Shunning narration, she lets parents and children tell their own, mostly melancholy stories.

There are horror stories, funny stories and melancholy stories and, toward the end, faint suggestions that all might not be lost.

It is a melancholy story that Mr. Evans tells, nonetheless.

The whimsical, sometimes melancholy stories, which often use nonsense language, were originally created for his own daughters.

When you turn the page to Chapter I, you'll begin to hear the whole melancholy story.

Altogether, Minik's "tortured and lonely life," as Harper appropriately characterizes it, is one of the world's most melancholy stories.