dolesome
Example Sentences
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And now begin the dolesome notes to grow Audible unto me; now am I come There where much lamentation strikes upon me.
From Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Complete by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
So cherished, I shall never die; Pray, therefore, spare your dolesome praises, Your elegies, and plaintive cries, For I shall fertilize no daisies!
From Echoes from the Sabine Farm by Roswell Martin Field
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
