sad-minded

Updated: June 29, 2025

Sometimes people daring enough to peer over the high wall of the palace garden noticed there, carried in a footman's arms, or drawn in a chair, or left to play on the grass, often with nobody to mind him, a pretty little boy, with a bright, intelligent face and large, melancholy eyes no, not exactly melancholy, for they were his mother's, and she was by no means sad-minded, but thoughtful and dreamy.

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik - The Little Lame Prince

We supposed that the young officer, coming fresh to the place, did not know where the British lines ended and the Turks' began, and he marched his squads into that bit of No Man's Land beyond the machine-gun near "Jefferson's Post," and was either shot or taken prisoner. It made the men heavy and sad-minded. "Poor old Mellor 'e warn't a bad sort, was he!"

John Hargrave - At Suvla Bay : Being the notes and sketches of scenes, characters and adventures of the Dardanelles campaign, made by John Hargrave ("White Fox") while serving with the 32nd field ambulance, X division, Mediterranean expeditionary force, during the great war.