doleful

How To Use doleful In A Sentence

• When they arrived there, they found the old man practising his clarionet in the dolefullest manner in a corner of the room. Little Dorrit
• Nicholas watched her with his doleful blue eyes as she walked away.
• Loca" is hip-hop merengue performed in two languages, with assistance from Dominican rapper El Cata and English rapper Dizzee Rascal, with little appreciable difference between the versions; "Lo Que Más" is one of a handful of doleful ballads; the Pitbull-assisted "Rabiosa" is giddy, rapid-fire Latin pop. Album review: Shakira, "Sale el Sol"
• Secretly Henrietta longed for a cat, a sweet gray tabby with little paws and doleful eyes who she could share her life long secrets with.
• Here's one to a very doleful tune, how a usurer's wife was brought to bed of twenty money-bags at a burthen and how she longed to eat adders 'heads and toads carbonadoed. The Winter's Tale
• His words filled hearts, turned eyes moist, and made many doleful as he saluted those who were not with us any longer as they laid down their lives for the country.
• The lovely title track has a whiff of Ellington in its carefully paced atmospherics, with discreet touches of celeste colouring the long shadows cast by Peplowski's doleful clarinet.
• Now they heard the distant baying of house-dogs, now the doleful call of the chuck-will's-widow, and once Mary's blood turned, for an instant, almost to ice at the unearthly shriek of the hoot owl just above her head. Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform
• The last part of the drive on a road causewayed through the endless mangrove swamp impresses the imagination strongly by its dolefulness. The Golden Chersonese and the way thither
• Then she came wriggling back, with repentant doleful eyes starting upward and a knife behind her back.