dolesome

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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 Fenn, George Manville

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 MacDonald, George

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 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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 De la Mare, Walter

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 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth