She manufactured a sigh of mock regret and fixed him with her most mournful expression.

I don't, Petra,' he said in the most mournful tone she'd ever heard him use. '

Perigeaux said, at his most mournful.

But when the music was most pleasant to me, I heard a most mournful groaning which grew until it filled the great glen.

Loony's tail went down, and he put on his most mournful expression.

Nana had gradually lapsed into a most mournful condition.

"A-flittin' through the wood, he said, all dressed in black-and howlin' most mournful!"

It might be a nice little hotel, but this was a most mournful little bar.

"And frolicsome" - here he cut a most mournful caper.

Mark Twain praised the sculpture of a mortally-wounded lion as "the most mournful and moving piece of stone in the world."