dolesome
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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
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 John R. Kinnear
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 George Manville Fenn
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
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