dolefuls
Example Sentences
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"Come! come! don't be getting into the dolefuls already," cried Zack, administering an exhilarating thump on the back to his friend.
From Hide and Seek by Wilkie Collins
Oh! don’t look so serious, Amos; you are always in the dolefuls now.
From Amos Huntingdon by Theodore P. Wilson
It is a passing fit of the dolefuls.
From A Crooked Path A Novel by Mrs. Alexander
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 Thomas Moore
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 Bram Stoker
