dolesome
Example Sentences
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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
So cherished, I shall never die; Pray, therefore, spare your dolesome praises, Your elegies, and plaintive cries, For I shall fertilize no daisies!
From Echoes from the Sabine Farm by Roswell Martin Field
A dolesome thing," he said; "but my mother was wont to sing it to the virginals.
From Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance by Walter De la Mare
His eyes cast down, his forehead shorn had he Of all its boldness, and he said, with sighs, "Who has denied to me the dolesome houses?"
From Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Complete by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
