dolesome

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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 Fenn, George Manville

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 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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 Kinnear, John R.

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 Field, Eugene