Their dispatch is quick, and less dolorous than the paw of the bear or teeth of the lion. From LearnThat.org. [Dr. H. More.]
Adjective : a dolorous melody; dolorous news. From Dictionary.com.
His expression was dolorous, I guess because he’d wanted to get rid of me. From Wordnik.com. [Haunted Honeymoon] Reference
He found a kind of dolorous amusement in seeing now much more at home all the youngsters about him seemed than he. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference
And leave her dolorous mansions to the peering day. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886] Reference
The Yankee's dolorous countenance almost made me smile. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844] Reference
After these tragicall Nouelles and dolorous Histories of Bandello. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1] Reference
English, but went about their tasks day after day mute and dolorous. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Cross Girls with the Russian Army] Reference
With fainting heart and choking breath, I heard the dolorous rain. From Wordnik.com. [Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform] Reference
The dormouse looked up, and gave a dolorous squeal of disappointment. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
Yea, your truble is more dolorous unto me, then it is unto your selves. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)] Reference
Look at her: her forehead clouded, her glance vague, her mouth dolorous. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Louisiana, claiming it on the dolorous cry of France for her lost children. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference
Instead, in a most dolorous voice she sang out, quoting the witches 'chant. From Wordnik.com. [The Girls of Central High Aiding the Red Cross Or Amateur Theatricals for a Worthy Cause] Reference
He stood stupefied, and so dolorous a spectacle that she could not but laugh. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
The dolorous lamentacion of the Ladies and Matrons in Grece, would haue hindered. From Wordnik.com. [A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde] Reference
Before us the Atlantic rolls to the verge of the "tideless, dolorous inland sea.". From Wordnik.com. [Morocco] Reference
The most dolorous of all moral tragedies knit and unknit the most often in silence. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
"The bird, the bird!" said he, turning and looking at the dolorous piper of the marsh. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
The organ protests in a long and dolorous note, and startles the musician from his reverie. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878] Reference
'It is dolorous to the faithful,' he writes another friend, 'to lack the sensible feeling of. From Wordnik.com. [John Knox] Reference
And therewithall she closed her eyes, and lost her senses, departing out of this dolorous life. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1] Reference
But in case you're not sure, check out this dolorous vignette appropriately titled Fragile Mind. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Brosseau: 'Empty Houses Are Lonely'] Reference
With suche like pitifull cries, as women are wonte to make vpon suche heauie and dolorous euentes. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1] Reference
In the carriage, and in her room, she saw again the look of her lover, that cruel and dolorous look. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Tombreck, and from that dolorous ruin almost to our present retreat was the patent track of our march. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
It was not long before she entered on the dolorous way which was to be henceforward her path here below. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation] Reference
Presently, when the chickens came clucking, she went to mix their meal as usual, very pale and dolorous. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873] Reference
The star made schedule trips between the altar and the loft, running over our heads with a dolorous rattle. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Impression of the Philippines] Reference
You will behold many of these scenes of domestic distress about the ruins of Johnstown in these dolorous days. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
Take your sobbing, sniveling, trembling, dolorous, sanctimonious voice down into some dismal swamp and bury it. From Wordnik.com. [Supreme Personality] Reference
That cry which the news brought by Julien wrested from Montfanon was so dolorous that the young man did not think of laughing. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The antiquity of these lines has been questioned, and it must be admitted that the strain is somewhat too dolorous for the times. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
Can it be possible that he, in his dolorous prison, has taken account of the passing days and remembers that night -- a year ago?. From Wordnik.com. [Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine] Reference
A spendthrift, -- in one sense he has his money's worth by the purchase of large lots of repentance and other dolorous commodities. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference
A dolorous whistle chimed harmonies, and with regular sibilation came to time, quavering out the chromatic moments of this nasal hour. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
And with a din they rustled in a body to the gates; and quickly the city was filled with loud cries at the turning of the dolorous fight. From Wordnik.com. [The Argonautica] Reference
In the morn came Merlin and wrote Balin's inscription also in letters of gold: "Here lieth Balin the Wild, that smote the dolorous stroke.". From Wordnik.com. [Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur"] Reference
Balin also, so that he might not stir foot nor hand, for through that dolorous stroke the most part of the castle that was fallen down lay upon him and Pellam. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur"] Reference
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