How To Use Doleful In A Sentence
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When they arrived there, they found the old man practising his clarionet in the dolefullest manner in a corner of the room.
Little Dorrit
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Nicholas watched her with his doleful blue eyes as she walked away.
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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"
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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Then she came wriggling back, with repentant doleful eyes starting upward and a knife behind her back.
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He plays him as a cuddly grump, a sweet-natured misanthrope, more doleful than angry.
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His voice, as doleful as his bloodhound eyes, is his trump card.
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His voice, as doleful as his bloodhound eyes, is his trump card.
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Instead, he wrote, played all the instruments, multi-tracked the doleful harmonies and produced this deceptively drifting solo project.
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Fairground organ ditties blaring from food stalls soon gave way to the doleful strains of a whiny brass band playing funeral music.
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Helen," called a doleful voice from the sitting-room.
The Tangled Threads
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Faint music came from another house beyond the trees; a carriage clopped past the distant gates; overhead a nightbird moaned dolefully; I could hear my own knees creaking as I crouched there, scratching the newly-healed bullet-wound in my backside and wondering what the deuce was wrong.
Isabelle
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Thrasileon, the honour of our comfort, received his death so patiently, that he would not bewray the league betweene us, either by crying, howling, or any other meanes, but being torn with dogs and wounded with weapons, did yeeld forth a dolefull cry, more like unto a beast than a man.
The Golden Asse
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There were just a few doleful looking people sitting in chairs who were outnumbered by the armed security guards protecting the X-Ray machine and metal detector while striving to provide quality service to their customers.
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The smile disappeared to be replaced by a doleful frown.
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Then with a doleful sigh, he gave Michael a thorough frisk for a weapon.
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Apart from the house, only the doleful eyes of the writer are visible to the public in the caricature.
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He looked at us searchingly, a doleful expression demanding our sympathy.
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The rear exit ahead of him was closed, blocked by doleful-looking goats.
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Huge great gig-lamps with clunkingly heavy frames and they were all wearing them, from John Sessions as a doleful Geoffrey Howe to Michael Maloney as a quietly manipulative John Major.
Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me
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She had a kind of doleful elegance, tried to be confidential, lowered her voice and looked as if she wished to establish a secret understanding, in order to ask her visitor if she would venture on an apple-fritter.
The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II)
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Their home is one of an isolated clutch of doleful, boxy structures, their alimentary needs met by a tiny storefront shop, their streets unlit, even unpaved.
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Or perhaps there is now no heroic wisdom left in England; England, once the land of heroes, is itself sunk now to a dim owlery, and habitation of doleful creatures, intent only on money-making and other forms of catching mice, for whom the proper gospel is the gospel of M'Croudy, and all nobler impulses and insights are forbidden henceforth?
Latter-Day Pamphlets
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Ah," said his wife, shaking her head in a kind of doleful triumph,
Aunt Rachel
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He is remarkable only for wearing his hair like a fool - literally looking like some doleful court jester in black and white motley with a fright-wig hairdo.
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The manager dolefully explained the problems of running a three - star hotel in a five-star building on a two-star budget.
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The rear exit ahead of him was closed, blocked by doleful-looking goats.
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But you will be as doleful as a dripstone if you marry for money.
Father Goriot
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In the competition for most doleful, Larson himself mentions the Adagietto from Mahler's Fifth Symphony, Henryk Gorecki's Symphony No. 3 and several funeral marches and dirgelike hymns such as "Nearer My God to Thee.
Thomas Larson's 'The Saddest Music Ever Written,' reviewed by Michael Dirda
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The casualty of the traffic accident was a doleful record.
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His face is long and can look doleful when he is not smiling.
Times, Sunday Times
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Named for the corn and yucca beer typically made by Andean Indians, chicha has come to represent a vibrant popular culture of tinny cumbia music, doleful lyrics, bright neon colors, and a peculiar street jargon.
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Other game manufacturer is unwilling also and doleful.
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Dream about snowflakes as the doleful synthesizers moan like winter winds.
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In one, a lifelike depiction of a young man with doleful, melancholy eyes lies within the still, tightly bound wrappings of the mummy.
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'When one's at home,' Fatima continued, in doleful tones, 'one doesn't feel it, because one sees nobody; but when one goes among other people, it is wretched not to have plenty of money and things.
Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances
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There was never anything sophisticated or subtle about the doleful northerner but boy, could he make you laugh.
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They're no less doleful when they see me going about alone.
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Knowing nothing about my departure, the faithful animal still waited for me as usual, its eyes getting more doleful each day.
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Wailing her woe, the widow {41a} old, her hair upbound, for Beowulf's death sung in her sorrow, and said full oft she dreaded the doleful days to come, deaths enow, and doom of battle, and shame.
Beowulf
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Some fear it was a cry, not of true repentance, but of bitter complaint; their heart was as full of grief as it could hold, and they gave vent to it in doleful shrieks and outcries, in which they made use of God's name; yet we will charitably suppose that many of them did in sincerity cry unto God for mercy in their distress; and the prophet bids them go on to do so: O wall of the daughter of
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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Heres one to a very doleful tune, how a usurers wife was brought to bed of twenty money-bags at a burden; and how she longed to eat adders heads and toads carbonadoed.
Act IV. Scene III. The Winter’s Tale
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Contrary to the doleful prophecies of superannuated Jeremiahs, pop is in rude health.
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Empty, doleful, whether to let a person remember sad, sad thing?
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There was never anything sophisticated or subtle about the doleful northerner but boy, could he make you laugh.
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7 And of my doleful disadventurous dear: disadventurous > unfortunate dear > beloved (some editors gloss this as "loss, injury") 8 O heavy record of the good Redcross,
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
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She did, indeed, look "doleful," as Pauline expressed it, and the beaming, lovely face of the latter rendered her wan aspect more apparent.
Beulah
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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
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The whole family filed into my surgery to thank me, bobbing and bowing, looking so doleful, then smiling.
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Now therefore let all the wicked men be far from thence (Ezra 6: 6): The Lord gather these waters, which in another place are called the doleful creatures, and birds of prey; Let these, O Lord, be gathered together to their own places, and be settled in the land of Shinar upon their own base (Zech 5: 11): Then the wilderness and the solitary places shall be glad for them; that is, for that they are departed thence, the desert shall rejoice and blossom as a rose (Isa 34 and 35).
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02
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The final selection, ‘Night Prayers,’ is from Georgia, and has a doleful melody typical of traditional Russian music.
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There can be no joy in war: it is always repulsive in actual detail, but if we are not left with the facts, then the world is deprived even of doleful experience of the battlefield.
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O ye Napeas and Dryads! which do wontedly inhabit the thickets and groves, so may the nimble and lascivious satyrs, by whom (although in vain) you are beloved, never have power to interrupt your sweet rest, as you shall assist me to lament my disasters, or at least attend them, whilst I dolefully breathe them.
The Third Book. XI. Which Treats of the Strange Adventures That Happened to the Knight of the Mancha in Sierra Morena; and of the Penance He Did There, in Imitation of Beltenebros
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the child's doleful expression
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You may occasionally be accosted in a public place by an attaccabottoni, a doleful bore who buttonholes people and tells sad, pointless tales.
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Somewhere out in the gloom coyotes chattered and yelped, and from far across the dusky valley others answered -- a doleful tenson.
The River and I
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Here and there stood a solitary she-oak, most doleful of trees, its scraggy, pine-needle foliage bleached to grey.
Australia Felix
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And the hatreds the doleful which erst they have dreed;
The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats
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Bureaucracy plays its usual doleful part in the process, of course.
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his mother looked at him dolefully when he told her he had joined the Army
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This track, from a rereleased 1981 live album, Standstill to Motion, is a doleful delight, its sonorous vocals conveying a sense of internal warfare.
F&M playlist
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These voices do but echo to the voice of the Lord, who is now rendering a recompence to his enemies; and those that will not hear him speaking this terror shall hear them returning the alarms of it in doleful shrieks.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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An elfin man of doleful mien, Mr. Wisdom was often described as the rightful heir to
NYT > Home Page
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Her onstage patter relied heavily on a certain expletive, and she undercut "Basket Case," the evening's most doleful offering, by dedicating it to "everyone out there who's sad.
Music review: Sara Bareilles at 9:30 Club
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I told him he needed looking after and he looked so doleful and childlike I gave him a hug.
The Sun
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Everyman wasn't as comprehensive and incisive as it might have been, but it was an intriguing, doleful documentary none the less.
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He said: ‘We shall all miss her but it won't be a sad, doleful funeral.’
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Instead, he wrote, played all the instruments, multi-tracked the doleful harmonies and produced this deceptively drifting solo project.
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Another Grave movement follows, a particularly doleful composition constructed from long, sighing melodic arches.
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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.
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Those a few days of units are busy, husband is very late in the evening just come back, my person gets online frowzily frowzily , dismiss doleful night.
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Why don't you eat?" he demanded, as Martin dipped dolefully into the cold, half-cooked oatmeal mush.
Chapter 5
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He still excels at doleful ditties, bright, even bouncy tunes paired with lyrics that are both sincerely, deeply sad and good-humored about their sadness.
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Even at this early stage, we noted the slightly disturbing ability of these imaginary quadrapeds to suggest in the morning that they'd been moving about in the night, having doleful, insomniac consultations in the dark hours before dawn.
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However, even he sounds a little doleful when the subject is brought up.
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It adopts the journey conceit, the episodic structure, and adds an element of explicit comedy that exceeds even the kind of doleful humor to be found in Don Quixote.
Narrative Strategies
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It reminded me suddenly of the reason why people say that the bell in Nanjing tends to be more doleful than those in other cities.
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His figure, tall and thin, was well adapted to the character he represented, and his mask, which depictured a lean and haggard face, worn with care, yet fiery with crazy passions, exhibited, with propriety the most striking, the knight of the doleful countenance.
Cecilia
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“All the toilets and cesspools are flooded, of course,” Paul noted dolefully, “and the amenities of life are impossible to preserve.”
A Covert Affair
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The tearful family followed her into the house and sat in doleful silence watching the big drops that began to beat on the western window.
The Second Chance
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Those whose livelihood hinges on their ability to extract interesting thoughts from fundamentally uninteresting people have grown moustaches to signify their collective dolefuleness.
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The smile disappeared to be replaced by a doleful frown.
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Why don't you eat?" he demanded, as Martin dipped dolefully into the cold, half-cooked oatmeal mush.
Chapter 5
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So it was not very pleasant when she opened the door of her room, to see Martha standing waiting for her with a doleful face.
The Secret Garden
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‘I've always loved greyhounds and whippets,’ says Myles, glancing over at his pet's naturally doleful expression.
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The face, at this moment, was a sad one, but its lines expressed no weak surrender to dolefulness; her lips were courageous, and her eyes such as brighten readily with joy.
Denzil Quarrier
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The old dilapidated building where the two women meet each other is made even more gloomy and doleful by an unexpected downpour.
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All this time the uncle was dolefully blowing his clarionet in the corner, sometimes taking it an inch or so from his mouth for a moment while he stopped to gaze at them, with a vague impression that somebody had said something.
Little Dorrit
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Ye see, sir, though doleful, Mr. Bimby's very kind 'earted, and' e's always a-nussing somebody or something -- last time it were a dog with a broke leg -- ah, I've knowed 'im bring' ome stray cats afore now, many's the time, and once a sparrer.
The Amateur Gentleman
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It's 'igh time' e was in bed," said Mr. Watlin, taking the fiddle brusquely from the Italian's hands, "'e don't fancy doleful ditties, an' no more do I, hey Johnnie?
Explorers of the Dawn
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My parents' doleful reaction always struck me as odd.
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Along the way they find the time to take in a Blind Willie Johnson blues number, a doleful love song in French and an old-time Appalachian ditty.
