dolent

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Through me the way is to the city dolent;   Through me the way is to eternal dole;   Through me the way among the people lost.

From Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Complete by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

She regarded him with her smoky eyes, in which he now saw that dolent, almost dolorous expression which had captivated him.

From Là-bas by Wallace, Keene

By turns they were dolent, forsaken, languorous, and haughty.

From Là-bas by Wallace, Keene

This Roman was very dolent, because of his cousin's death, for he had seen his body lying in the dust.

From Arthurian Chronicles: Roman de Brut by Mason, Eugene

But the dolent accents returned as he opened his proofs and read them.

From Balzac by Lawton, Frederick