Among the rest, the most able are: the ever watchful Crane, the mournful turtle dove, the cuckoo, the stock dove, the woodpecker, the jay, the crow and so on.

Many a lonely moon was bright upon the battle-ground, and many a star kept mournful watch upon it, and many a wind from every quarter of the earth blew over it, before the traces of the fight were worn away.

Sometimes I ask myself what a raven, with its decisive final presence, and its mournful persistent color, may have to say to the aged mountains.

Anne was sitting on the yellow chair by the window gazing mournfully out into the garden.

From the marsh at the head of the pond came the clear, mournfully-sweet chorus of the frogs.