dolefuls
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We have known the Gaité in the dolefuls, and the Porte St. Martin abandoning its scaffolds, trap-doors, and other melodramatic horrors, for fun, farce, and ballet.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 by Various
When my first-cousin-once-removed, Rupert, was twelve years old, his mother died, and he was in the dolefuls about it for more than a year.
From The Lady of the Shroud by Bram Stoker
It would never do to be in the dolefuls over Christmas!
From About Peggy Saville by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
Oh! don’t look so serious, Amos; you are always in the dolefuls now.
From Amos Huntingdon by Theodore P. Wilson
It is a passing fit of the dolefuls.
From A Crooked Path A Novel by Mrs. Alexander
