What is "melancholies"

Usage examples of "melancholies".

North shore, with its processions of black Melancholies, flailing away at the citizens with their fish skin whips and given good metal coin to do it.

Down in the Baristown plaza, a line of swaying Melancholies moved across the pave, chanting to awaken the people.

There was a procession of Melancholies, dark faces fierce and demanding, waving their fish skin lashes in invitation to the watchers.

It was Queen Fibji’s need for coin that made any of them willing to serve a term as Melancholies, despite the precarious life of the Noor steppe dwellers and the relative luxury the Melancholies knew.

More than once she’d gone aboard at some lecher’s invitation and had to show her knife and whip to get off again, but no owner was going to bring the curse of the Melancholies down ‘on himself.

The Melancholies had gone ashore, even Medoor Babji, who these days seemed reluctant to leave the Gift.

They had little enough in stores of food or obvious possessions, the Moor, but the Melancholies did keep the Queen’s coffers filled.

The: The black people of the northern moors, from whom the Melancholies come.

A small cabin below for himself since the Melancholies would be using his house.

So far as the standabouts were concerned, the boat had been hired by the Melancholies for a Glizzee-prospecting voyage among the islands.

All the Melancholies were sent word to watch for him, but he has not appeared.

Peasimy Plot had been stopped by a troop of Melancholies in a town market square as they were passing through.

Unwisely, the Melancholies had suggested the crusaders be whipped for holiness’s sake.

The Melancholies had dropped behind to poke among the tide pools at the island’s edge, where they were finding brightly colored dye mulluks and flat coin fish.

Send a message to me through all the Melancholies of Northshore from Thou-ne at least so far as Vobil-dil-go.