Preposition: of

• song: Certainly in the intricate melodic melancholy of the song is a hint of the Joni circa Urge For Going period.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• make: That makes the film rather melancholy, although it's basically a romantic story.

Modifies a noun

• thistle: Other plants such as Northern Marsh orchid, greater burnet, ox-eye daisy and melancholy thistle occur in some.

• ballad: Psalm 26, a melancholy, asymmetric ballad, reminded me of British jazz from the 1960s.

• mood: She leads the story further when she meets a young Prince walking in melancholy mood by the river.

• melody: The first violin sings a long, melancholy melody, which gains in emotional power on its sweet, A major repeat.

• tone: She must not make it a more decided subject of misery to him, by a melancholy tone herself.

• reflection: I threw myself into the chaise that was to convey me away and indulged in the most melancholy reflections.

Modifying Another Word

• somewhat: Also, there are some genuine flashes of pop genius here, albeit somewhat melancholy ones.

• rather: He devised the Kensington System, under which she spent, to use her own words, her " rather melancholy childhood " .

• slightly: The longest track at 10:10, ' Suddenly ' , has a slightly melancholy country feel.

• deep: Instead they invested their writings with what Poles call ' zal ' , a sort of deep melancholy.

• so: Yet farewell of so famous a house should not be made with so melancholy a story.

• very: I am scarcely drawing the portrait of a very melancholy man.

Used with adjective complement

• feel: I can't help wondering whether I am alone in feeling melancholy at the ruin of Blunkett.

• look: Cease to look so melancholy, my dear master; you shall not be left desolate, so long as I live.

• seem: Oddly, the sound seemed more melancholy than menacing.

• get: I still sometimes get melancholy over apparent nothings but it does not compare at all to past feelings.

• become: My face grew grave, and Agatha became melancholy.

• make: Could all fit modern turkey made melancholy is everywhere little would have.