Example Sentences

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Shiny dolour is the hallmark of this Diver.

From The Guardian • Jul. 3, 2012

As with yesterday's chap, delicacy, dolour, feyness and ennui are the order of the day.

From The Guardian • Sep. 28, 2010

Her voice is an instrument of exquisite dolour, and her acutely observed songs dwell on relationships in their terminal phase, or in the scorched aftermath.

From The Guardian • May 26, 2010

"Hew alas p amor Oy moy myst en tant dolour."

From Notes and Queries, Number 54, November 9, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George

What syllables of dolour the forgotten Della-Cruscan school may have yelled out on the subject, is not worth ascertaining, and probably recollected by few or none.

From Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819 by Hughes, John