mélancoliquement

Vêtus d'une toile bleue décolorée par le blanchissage, les garçons de l'asile apparaissaient dans la cour avec un air sans joie, traînaient, mornes, dans leur coin, et, mélancoliquement, remontaient l'escalier qui les ramenait chez eux.
Dressed in blue, wash-worn denim, the inmates appeared in the yard with unhappy faces, wandering dejectedly in their corner and droopingly climbing the stairs.
Elle parlait mélancoliquement de son défunt mari.
She spoke melancholily about her late husband.
Le reflet de la lune sur l’eau amènera le Français à se souvenir mélancoliquement d’une femme qu’il a beaucoup aimée, prénommé Adrienne.
The reflection of the moon on the water will lead the Frenchman to melancholy recollections of Adrienne, a woman he loved very much.
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