How To Use dolorous In A Sentence
- It erupted at last in a dolorous, elongated syllable as Christopher caught her in his arms and felt his sunglasses bruise his chest. FAMILY BLESSINGS
- The economy has nosedived since he took power in April, though he has hardly begun the dolorous restructuring he promised.
- The most dolorous of all moral tragedies knit and unknit the most often in silence. The French Immortals Series — Complete
- Don't you? it can't be helped then!" replied he in dolorous resignation: then, with a peculiar half smile, he added, "But never mind; I imagine the squire has more to apologize for than I," and left the cottage. Agnes Grey
- Far from being dour and dolorous, one of the clearest fruits of grace is a childlike joy.
- The choragus has fallen on his knees, and dips his head two or three times in an excavation in the ground, and a choir, also on their knees, repeat in dolorous tones the last words of a slow and solemn refrain. How I Found Livingstone
- He found a kind of dolorous amusement in seeing now much more at home all the youngsters about him seemed than he. The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
- Scare alone and dolorous, but scare much more to plustoghter.
- Guerra's not afraid to actually play the guitar conventionally either, and his dolorous, hesitant chording is heard to beautiful effect on the gorgeous closing track.
- These words uttered, she descends to earth in all her terrors, and calls dolorous Allecto from the home of the Fatal Sisters in nether gloom, whose delight is in woeful wars, in wrath and treachery and evil feuds: hateful to [327-360] lord Pluto himself, hateful and horrible to her hell-born sisters; into so many faces does she turn, so savage the guise of each, so thick and black bristles she with vipers. The Aeneid of Virgil