It is not the beginning of a melodramatic speech.

Certainly his expectations had not been very exalted; but there had run through them a hope of something melodramatic, dreams of May-pole dancing and athletic games, somewhat of village-belle rivalry, of the Corin and Sylvia school; or, failing that, a few Touchstones and Audreys, some genial earnest buffo humour here and there.

Don't be more melodramatic than you can help because, as you know, I am cursed with a sense of humour, but don't stand there saying nothing.

" Mr. Raymond Greene seemed rather to resent having cold water poured upon his melodramatic imaginings.

"You carry the melodramatic instinct with you, day by day.

CHAPTER VI The Second Day Ends A personal résumé of the fightLack of melodramatic accompanimentsA lost chance of gloryAnother neglected opportunityA glimpse of the flagOnce more into camp.

CHAPTER VI The Second Day Ends A personal résumé of the fightLack of melodramatic accompanimentsA lost chance of gloryAnother neglected opportunityA glimpse of the flagOnce more into camp.

I was not afraid, and I was simply doing my duty; but I sometimes think that I may have neglected the flood-tide of opportunity, and I often wonder why, in melodramatic crises, a man's mind is not always able to control his legs.

To think that out of a mere chain of chance coincidences I should have forged a perfect melodramatic intrigue!

And Duncan Farll would be the executor and trustee of that melodramatic testament.

But I could not rise to this dramatic, or, better, melodramatic, climax.

CHAPTER II SPORTING CHANCE It might easily have been made melodramatic by any hesitation as he approached, but, with a businesslike directness, he went right up to the men who held the fighting horse.

This perfect intermingling of the religious and the melodramatic was one of our most interesting experiences, and made the Miracle Plays of history a very simple and intelligible thing.

As if that unfortunate and misguided body had not enough sins to its account without having melodramatic and uncharacteristic kidnappings and deeds of violence attributed to it.

I was, in short, in the very nick of time, and could hardly help smiling at the strange part I was playing in what was, as I thought, one of those serious melodramatic farces of which (in the Frenchman's sense)

Mrs. Phillips had played emotional scenes herself, but never with such melodramatic intensity as she now unconsciously displayed.

From the boat, as you cross, the effects and contrasts are more melodramatic.

In it he subdued himself rather to the level of such popular producers as Besant and Rice, and went out of his way to procure melodramatic suspense, an ingredient far from congenial to his normal artistic temper.

His own serious writing was always dangerously close to the melodramatic, and his humor to the farcical.

The commercial traveler was still relating everywhere his version of the event, concluding it now with his melodramatic meeting with the father, the latter's fatal fall on receiving the news, and desperation upon recovering consciousness.

Ask of the damned ... TOBY-DOG Of whom? KIKI-THE-DEMURE, (more and more melodramatic, but without conviction) ... of the damned in his vat of boiling oil, if anything amuses him!

" He left the room with a melodramatic flourish....

She went into raptures about Italian music, and laughed over the ruins of Odry, yawned in a becoming manner at the legitimate drama, and cried at the sight of Madame Dorval's acting in some ultra-melodramatic piece.

I. 'Pon my faith, you are growing melodramatic.

During those first days of the Revolution they cherished certain melodramatic displays.