dolent
Example Sentences
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But the dolent accents returned as he opened his proofs and read them.
From Balzac by Frederick Lawton
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 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
After "that most dolent day"* we hear no more of Dunbar.
From English Literature for Boys and Girls by H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth) Marshall
Very dolent and right heavy was the fair lady that thus her lord had fled his house.
From Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends by Eugene Mason
When the sailors heard this they were very dolent, but there was naught that they might do.
From French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France by Marie de France
