He went on, not without misgivings, and as he drew near he heard the doleful sound of painful moans. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
The child's doleful expression. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
"Ah," said his wife, shaking her head in a kind of doleful triumph. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Rachel] Reference
POETS have oft 'declared, in doleful strain. From Wordnik.com. [Lover's Vows] Reference
The Rat paid no heed to his doleful self-reproaches. From Wordnik.com. ['Wind In The Willows': A Christmas Take On A Classic] Reference
"I don't know, Mother," was the almost doleful reply. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean, High School Freshman] Reference
Aunt Trudy's doleful prediction proved only too true. From Wordnik.com. [Rosemary] Reference
And the hatreds the doleful which erst they have dreed. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
Bildad, with his roofless pack, sent up a doleful sound. From Wordnik.com. [Rippling Rhymes] Reference
"You weren't scared a bit!" he exclaimed, frankly doleful. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
He suffers! hark! he moans thy loss in many a doleful sigh. From Wordnik.com. [The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse] Reference
"What a doleful face you have!" exclaimed his host, laughingly. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
"Nonsense," Boyd said, hunting for his coat with a doleful air. From Wordnik.com. [Out Like a Light] Reference
He threw a doleful glance at the unappetizing tea in Sara's cup. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
"I can't imagine you in the doleful dumps for very long, Evelyn," said. From Wordnik.com. [Lucile Triumphant] Reference
Napoleon, -- probably on that doleful day when they had to retreat from. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
My humour suggested strolling along the roadside singing doleful songs. From Wordnik.com. [Through St. Dunstan's to Light] Reference
His doleful whisper spread as the plague -- poisoning faith everywhere. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference
But Cyril looked doleful, and was lagging behind his small eager sister. From Wordnik.com. [An Australian Lassie] Reference
My doleful countenance stared back at me from the mirror over the hearth. From Wordnik.com. [The Case Of The Limehouse Golem] Reference
Now don't look so doleful, Ruth, one would think you were going to be beheaded. From Wordnik.com. ['Our Guy' or, The elder brother] Reference
Walter had no option but to obey, but the awesome tune had carried its doleful message. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades] Reference
Can't make out the doleful faces of vanquished Parthians paying obeisance to the emperor?. From Wordnik.com. [Caesar Slept Here] Reference
She's paying for my muffin and sliding the napkin across the table to me, looking doleful. From Wordnik.com. [Things Don't Break] Reference
His lyric in the song's first half is doleful, like mourners on their way to the graveyard. From Wordnik.com. [Toward a New New Orleans] Reference
A little rusty-throated cricket piped a doleful sentence now and then between the silences. From Wordnik.com. [Marcia Schuyler] Reference
He was no pessimist, croaking out doleful prophecies and lamentations and bitter criticisms. From Wordnik.com. [When the Holy Ghost is Come] Reference
Somewhere up a side street a choir was practising a hymn, making a noise infinitely doleful. From Wordnik.com. [The Blood of the Conquerors] Reference
Hence they hear the doleful howlings of their wives, hence the cries of their tender infants. From Wordnik.com. [Tacitus on Germany] Reference
As Dan put round the drink the doleful mood lifted a wee, and the lads started to tell stories. From Wordnik.com. [The McBrides A Romance of Arran] Reference
He doubled his fists, rubbed his eyes vigorously, and uttered a very plaintive and doleful cry. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story] Reference
Betty began to feel very doleful at being one step above John in this the beginning of their career. From Wordnik.com. [An Australian Lassie] Reference
"Gentlemen, do you know that what you have been relating to us is very doleful?" said Suzanne Herzog. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
William, his doleful face came between me and every dish, and I seemed to see his wife dying to annoy me. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories of Various Types] Reference
In this way the doleful experience may be avoided, "Yes, we were organized, but we do not know what to do.". From Wordnik.com. [Why and How : a hand-book for the use of the W.C.T. unions in Canada] Reference
Everywhere are grim, doleful evidences of a glory that is past and a population that is dead or moved away. From Wordnik.com. [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference
"You were a good teacher," and Tommy put on such a doleful expression that the girls screamed with laughter. From Wordnik.com. [The Merriweather Girls in Quest of Treasure] Reference
But saddest of all, he thought, was the cage in which a mournful dog and a doleful bear stared wretchedly all about. From Wordnik.com. ['Luka and the Fire of Life'] Reference
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