dolesome
Example Sentences
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And now begin the dolesome notes to grow Audible unto me; now am I come There where much lamentation strikes upon me.
From Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Complete by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Ah! it’s a dolesome change from Sir Murray to Sir Brian yonder at the end, and worse still, to your father, as wouldn’t put nothing on but a breast-piece and back-piece and a steel cap.”
From The Young Castellan A Tale of the English Civil War by George Manville Fenn
So cherished, I shall never die— Pray, therefore, spare your dolesome praises, Your elegies and plaintive cries, For I shall fertilize no daisies!
From Hoosier Lyrics by Eugene Field
In this vicinity was passed a dolesome time, the country being wild and rugged, affording handsome scenery under different circumstances, but for us it had no enchantment.
From History of the Eighty-sixth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, during its term of service by John R. Kinnear
For frightful, yea, horrible is it down there; And man ought not to tempt the heavenly Might, Or long to see, with prying unwholesome, What He graciously covers with darkness dolesome!
From Rampolli by George MacDonald
