dolent
Example Sentences
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Launfal was very dolent to hear this thing.
From French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France by Marie de France
She regarded him with her smoky eyes, in which he now saw that dolent, almost dolorous expression which had captivated him.
From Là-bas by Keene Wallace
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 L. Williams
But the dolent accents returned as he opened his proofs and read them.
From Balzac by Frederick Lawton
After "that most dolent day"* we hear no more of Dunbar.
From English Literature for Boys and Girls by H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth) Marshall
