Die woordeboekbetekenis van die woord "treurig" is vol hartseer of hartseer; hartseer of hartseer uitdruk of oproep. Dit kan ook verwys na iets wat met rou geassosieer word of geskik is vir 'n tyd van rou.
It was on the wedding-day of this beloved friend that Emma first sat in mournful thought of any continuance.
His long face was mournful, his eyes watery with tears.
The general slept again and was ready to travel the next morning, though his mood was somewhat mournful.
The countenance of this lady, made beautiful and saintly with an evidently complete giving up of her life to privation and sorrowful tenderness, her gentle and mournful voice urging its plea, her long-forgotten but habitually and unconsciously refined manners, and her appealing and yet appreciative mention of the claims and abilities of her son, disclosed at once the presence of one of those angels upon earth that women in adversity can be.
At the end of it is a buoy with a bell, which swings in bad weather, and sends in a mournful sound on the wind.
The traveller answered that the same morning they had met these shepherds, and seeing them dressed in this mournful fashion they had asked them the reason of their appearing in such a guise which one of them gave, describing the strange behaviour and beauty of a shepherdess called Marcela, and the loves of many who courted her, together with the death of that Chrysostom to whose burial they were going.
When the wretched man again opened his eyes, the count looked at him with a mournful expression of pity, and his lips moved as if in prayer.
Or Bruno, who nevertheless raised his head, looking mournful, and letting out a brief, odd woof.
Douglas Macdougall stood apart, in full highland getup, blowing mournful fingers of music that twisted heartstrings and lingered in the chill autumn air.
And this same arid soil hath ever been A haunt of countless mournful memories, As well in our day as in days of yore.
