dolesome
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A dolesome thing," he said; "but my mother was wont to sing it to the virginals.
From Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance by Walter De la Mare
Ah! it’s a dolesome change from Sir Murray to Sir Brian yonder at the end, and worse still, to your father, as wouldn’t put nothing on but a breast-piece and back-piece and a steel cap.”
From The Young Castellan A Tale of the English Civil War by George Manville Fenn
Thus we descended into the fourth chasm, Gaining still farther on the dolesome shore Which all the woe of the universe insacks.
From Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Complete by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
For frightful, yea, horrible is it down there; And man ought not to tempt the heavenly Might, Or long to see, with prying unwholesome, What He graciously covers with darkness dolesome!
From Rampolli by George MacDonald
His eyes cast down, his forehead shorn had he Of all its boldness, and he said, with sighs, "Who has denied to me the dolesome houses?"
From Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Complete by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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