Sadjectives.  From Basic Goals in Spelling 8, Teacher's Edition by Kottmeyer & Ware, 1964.

The melancholy tourist.  From The Children's Newspaper, 1934.

From Bowles's Polite Recreation in Drawing, 1779.

From The Strand, 1894.

From Argus, 1991.

"One day as I sat musing alone and melancholy and without a friend, there came a voice from out of the gloom, saying 'Cheer up! Things could be worse!'  So I cheered up, and sure enough—things got worse."  From North Central's 1973 yearbook.

"Melancholy women.  Always afraid something dreadful is going to happen.  Why should women have the blues more than men?"  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1902.  

Feel better soon.

From Harper's (1902).

"Melancholy was depicted on his countenance," from The Arabian Nights Entertainments, 1899.

"Apparition of a melancholy young man," from Remarkable Apparitions and Ghost Stories, or Authentic Histories of Communications (Real or Imaginary) with the Unseen World by Clarence Day, 1848.