mournfully

surullisesti In a mournful manner; as if in mourning for something.
1927, w:Virginia Woolf|Virginia Woolf, w:To the Lighthouse|To the Lighthouse, page 140

The steamer itself had vanished, but the great scroll of smoke still hung in the air and drooped like a flag mournfully in valediction.

"Why have not we an immortal soul?" asked the little mermaid mournfully; "I would give gladly all the hundreds of years that I have to live, to be a human being only for one day, and to have the hope of knowing the happiness of that glorious world above the stars."