dolesome
Example Sentences
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Straight all the mother in her soul awakes, And, owning her Ulysses, thus she speaks; 'Comest thou, my son, alive, to realms beneath, The dolesome realms of darkness and of death!
From The Odyssey by Alexander Pope
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
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
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
