dolent
Example Sentences
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She had that dolent, troubled look in her eyes.
From Là-bas by Wallace, Keene
When the sailors heard this they were very dolent, but there was naught that they might do.
From French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France by France, Marie de
Certainly not; as without the opposite there is no pain; as is shown by that golden Pythagorean poet when he says: Hinc metuunt cupiuntque, dolent gaudentque, nec Respiciunt, clausæ tenebris, e carcere cæco.
From The Heroic Enthusiasts (Gli Eroici Furori) Part the First An Ethical Poem by Williams, L.
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
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
