dolent

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Launfal was very dolent to hear this thing.

From French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France by France, Marie de

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 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

After "that most dolent day"* we hear no more of Dunbar.

From English Literature for Boys and Girls by Marshall, H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth)

The literary epicure may keenly relish such epithets as dolent; but the common English reader, who loves plain fare, can hardly fail to be startled by it.

From The Unseen World and Other Essays by Fiske, John

And in such measure as the Franks rejoiced, so were the Greeks dolent, because right willingly would they have seen the Franks quarrelling and at war.

From Memoirs or Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the Conquest of Constantinople by Villehardouin, Geoffroi de