For myself, I am the man you have long known, Paul Griggs, the American; a man of many acquaintances and of few friends, who has seen the world, and is forty-three years of age, ugly and tough, not so poor as I have been, not so good as I might be, melancholic by temperament, and a little sour by force of circumstances.
"Paul Patoff"
F. Marion Crawford
For he, too, was in love with love for the first time in his life; yet it was not a hungry scanning of future horizons, but a profound melancholic reflection over the wasted past.
"The Salamander"
Owen Johnson
I was solemn last evening, melancholic and somewhat metaphysical it seems; but let it stand.
"An Ocean Tramp"
William McFee