dolefuls

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We have known the Gaité in the dolefuls, and the Porte St. Martin abandoning its scaffolds, trap-doors, and other melodramatic horrors, for fun, farce, and ballet.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 by Various

When my first-cousin-once-removed, Rupert, was twelve years old, his mother died, and he was in the dolefuls about it for more than a year. 

From The Lady of the Shroud by Stoker, Bram

We are all now in dolefuls for the Princess Dowager; but as there was no necessity for our being dressed or weeping mourners, we were easily provided.

From Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 01 by Moore, Thomas

It would never do to be in the dolefuls over Christmas!

From About Peggy Saville by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

Oh! don’t look so serious, Amos; you are always in the dolefuls now.

From Amos Huntingdon by Wilson, Theodore P.