They all became dolesome after they lost the game. From LearnThat.org.
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 Wordnik.com. [History of the Eighty-sixth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, during its term of service] Reference
The state of possessing adequate skill or knowledge for the performance of a duty. dolesome adj. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
And, to account for the semi-privacy surrounding the little work, must be set forth the dolesome incident of a printing-house fire burning. From Wordnik.com. [The Square of Sevens An Authoritative Method of Cartomancy with a Prefatory Note] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Castellan A Tale of the English Civil War] Reference
The dolesome howlings of tie prairie-wolf, and hootings of the midnight owl, borne upon the listening air, kept sad condolence with our musings, and gave increased momentum to the pressure that crushed our spirits. From Wordnik.com. [ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE] Reference
I was thoroughly drenched, but I knew at the outset it would never do to appear to mind such an accident before an "old swamper," like Mr. C--, and therefore joined him in his hearty laugh at the dolesome plight of myself and horse. From Wordnik.com. [Odd Leaves from the Life of a Louisiana "Swamp Doctor"] Reference
"A dolesome thing," he said; "but my mother was wont to sing it to the virginals. From Wordnik.com. [Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance] Reference
Waking at the critical time our hellish cortege approached, he gazed a moment, with eyes stretched to their utmost capacity, upon the rapidly nearing volume of fire; then springing from the roof, he ran shrieking his dolesome summons to the camp: "White folks riz!. From Wordnik.com. [Odd Leaves from the Life of a Louisiana "Swamp Doctor"] Reference
What a dolesome road-a I had to go. From Wordnik.com. [Hampton and its Students. By Two of its Teachers, Mrs. M. F. Armstrong and Helen W. Ludlow. With Fifty Cabin and Plantation Songs, Arranged by Thomas P. Fenner.] Reference
I fear you'll be very dolesome there. From Wordnik.com. [The Small House at Allington] Reference
The birds who love the dolesome night. From Wordnik.com. [Prose and Poetry of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu] Reference
All the dolesome rain and wintry wail. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876] Reference
Still sadder flows the dolesome strain. From Wordnik.com. [The Muffled Drum] Reference
The dolesome realms of darkness and of death!. From Wordnik.com. [The Odyssey] Reference
Joins in his dolesome lay; — the raven's caw. From Wordnik.com. [ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE] Reference
What He graciously covers with darkness dolesome!. From Wordnik.com. [Rampolli] Reference
I fear you’ll be very dolesome there. From Wordnik.com. [The Small House at Allington] Reference
Pray, therefore, spare your dolesome praises. From Wordnik.com. [Echoes from the Sabine Farm] Reference
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