They paused when they approached her, and the pipes again sent forth the same wild and melancholy strain.

One description of him referred to him as being of the "sapient, soft and melancholy strain", but records show he had a reputation for severity.

Few were marches; some were airs with a distinctly melancholy strain.

In the galley, the last melancholy strains of "Lt. Kije" wafted away and no one bothered to replace the disk.

He seems particularly suited to the music of the doleful Dowland, with an unusual sympathy for his melancholy strains.

Others, seemingly the most prosperous, have not been ashamed to vent their complaints in the most melancholy strains.

Alone she cuts and binds the grain, And sings a melancholy strain; O listen!

First named these notes a melancholy strain.

From this room, ere yet the door was opened, proceeded a low and melancholy strain of vocal music.

For most of the last century, the melancholy strains of the tango, so universally beloved here, have provided the perfect background music for bewildering failure.