Maudlin

Part of the building was a chosen See, Built by a banish’d Santon of Chaldee; The other part, two thousand years from him, Was built by Cuthbert de Saint Aldebrim; Then there’s a little wing, far from the Sun, Built by a Lapland Witch turn’d maudlin Nun; And many other juts of aged stone Founded with many a mason-devil’s groan.

You don’t even know that a child was born of this maudlin pair; you don’t even know that.” “I did not,” replied Mr. Brownlow, rising too; “but within the last fortnight I have learnt it all.

Iris admits it: Clara is beginning to seem maudlin.

Some stagger about in each other’s arms, whispering maudlin words—others start quarrels upon the slightest pretext, and come to blows and have to be pulled apart.

The writer's gettin' maudlin.

He never looks me quite in the face now, unless he is very drunk or maudlin; but yesterday he looked at me in such a way that a shiver went all down my back.

Still: but an itch of death is in them, to tell me in my ear a maudlin tale, urge me to wreak their will.

He enjoyed listening to Nately, whose maudlin, bittersweet lamentations mirrored much of his own romantic desolation and never failed to evoke in him resurgent tides of longing for his wife and children.