dolent

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After "that most dolent day"* we hear no more of Dunbar.

From English Literature for Boys and Girls by Marshall, H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth)

When the King heard thereof he was passing heavy and dolent, and considered within himself how he might be delivered from this grief.

From French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France by France, Marie de

This Roman was very dolent, because of his cousin's death, for he had seen his body lying in the dust.

From Arthurian Chronicles: Roman de Brut by Mason, Eugene

Si d'aventure aucû chevalier non hardy ou paresseux te possède après ma mort j'en seray grandement dolent.

From Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre by Costello, Louisa Stuart

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.