dolefuls

Example Sentences

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It would never do to be in the dolefuls over Christmas!

From About Peggy Saville by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

It is a passing fit of the dolefuls.

From A Crooked Path A Novel by Alexander, Mrs.

Oh! don’t look so serious, Amos; you are always in the dolefuls now.

From Amos Huntingdon by Wilson, Theodore P.

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 Stoker, Bram

We are all now in dolefuls for the Princess Dowager; but as there was no necessity for our being dressed or weeping mourners, we were easily provided.

From Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 01 by Moore, Thomas