How To Use Dolorous In A Sentence
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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
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The economy has nosedived since he took power in April, though he has hardly begun the dolorous restructuring he promised.
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The most dolorous of all moral tragedies knit and unknit the most often in silence.
The French Immortals Series — Complete
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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
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Far from being dour and dolorous, one of the clearest fruits of grace is a childlike joy.
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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
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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
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Scare alone and dolorous, but scare much more to plustoghter.
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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.
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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
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She stared at him; his long face, his dolorous expression, his unbelievable aura of insufferable complacency.
BEHINDLINGS
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His expression was dolorous, I guess because he’d wanted to get rid of me.
Haunted Honeymoon
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Mr Carter's tone was dolorous, but there is an extraordinary lilt to Mr Obama's rhetoric which puts a bounce back into everyone's step.
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If you removed the ultimate object – for one woman, a novel, for another, a home so perfectly created and maintained that nothing rank or dolorous could ever take root there – you had, essentially, the same effort.
Virginia Woolf, my mother and me
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Through an interpreter this week, a dolorous Dolores explained that it hadn't taken her long to realize she'd been duped.
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One of these, the parlor, gay with an ingrain carpet and dolorous with a funeral card and a death-picture of one of her numerous departed babes, was kept strictly for company.
Chapter 23
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Now and again the hunter can hear a long - draw dolorous whine of some unseen coyote.
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The pillow struck the wall and burst, scattering stuffing everywhere just as Dolorous Edd Tollett poked his head through the door.
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A gently dolorous Bulgarian folk-tune unfolds as a duet.
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We have tamed another bit of garden: a dolorous little drying green hedged on two sides with straggling cotoneasters which formed the view from the dining room.
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Baron Hafner's and Prince d'Ardea's manner toward Fanny had inspired her the day before with a dolorous analogy between the atmosphere of falsehood in which that poor girl lived and the atmosphere in which she at times thought she herself lived.
The French Immortals Series — Complete
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Toledo, I must needs confess and acknowledge that veritably the devils cannot be killed or die by the stroke of a sword, I do nevertheless avow and maintain, according to the doctrine of the said diabology, that they may suffer a solution of continuity (as if with thy shable thou shouldst cut athwart the flame of a burning fire, or the gross opacous exhalations of a thick and obscure smoke), and cry out like very devils at their sense and feeling of this dissolution, which in real deed I must aver and affirm is devilishly painful, smarting, and dolorous.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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Far from that, it begins questioning Lettres-de-Cachet generally, their legality, endurability; emits dolorous objurgation, petition on petition to have its three Martyrs delivered; cannot, till that be complied with, so much as think of examining the Protestant Edict, but puts it off always 'till this day week.'
The French Revolution
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They had heard so very little of this; yet it was enough to build up wretched dolorous dreams upon, there in the shade of the night.
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No, there was nothing sublime and dolorous about Miss Manners; her face was round, cheery, and slightly puckered, with two little black eyes sparking and shining under dark brows, a nose she unblushingly called pug, and a big mouth with eminently white and regular teeth, which she said were such a comfort, for they never ached, and never would to the end of time.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861
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The indistinct noise of the city floated in, the dolorous, snuffling air of an accordeon, the mooing of cows could be heard; somebody's soles were scraping dryly and a ferruled cane rapped resoundingly on the flags of the pavement; lazily and irregularly the wheels of a cabman's victoria, rolling at a pace through Yama, would rumble by, and all these sounds mingled with a beauty and softness in the pensive drowsiness of the evening.
Yama: the pit
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How Sir Launcelot rode on his adventure, and how he holp a dolorous lady from her pain, and how that he fought with a dragon.
Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
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Spasmodically are dolorous who sapindus cobalt and tragically are the double yearly librettist who beggarman no tuxedo for the fohn medical by heartsease primitive.
Rational Review
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Even if it's a sad thing, you want to get the essence of the most dolorous phrases and connect them in some way, and so in that way try to perfect something.
On writing: authors reveal the secrets of their craft
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Yet to that hideous place not fo confined By rigor unconniving, but that oft Leaving my dolorous prifon I enjoy Ltrge liberty to round this globe of earth, 365
The Works of the English Poets.: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical
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After some years of dolorous wandering in this palace of despair, -- for ` hope of rest to solace there is none, nor e'en of milder pang, 'save the poisonous anodyne of drink, -- most of those insnared to-night will perish, some of them in horrible torture.
Plain facts for old and young : embracing the natural history and hygiene of organic life.
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But, Nabokov being Nabokov, what clinches it for me is that dismal haze — which could equally be described as a dolorous haze or you see where I’m going with this as a Dolores Haze.
Lolita’s Ancestor - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com
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In Puccini's dolorous "Crisantemi," the sense of world-weary detachment was not completely apt, the suffering held at a distance.
Music review: The Quatuor Debussy with Katherine Chi at Library of Congress
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Which words being ended, she withdrew her selfe towards the middest of the Tarras, despairing of escaping (with life) from the heates violence; and not once onely, but infinite times beside (among her other grievous extreamities) she was ready to dye with drought, bemoaning incessantly her dolorous condition.
The Decameron
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This struck Will as tasteless, which fact must have registered on his long, dolorous features, because the drinker said, "I'm sorry.
EVERVILLE
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Those people who lifted up arms of sensation with dolorous hearts yearned for retaining a sentence of words from God with stretching devoutness .
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Odolorosa gioia (O dolorous joy) is emblematic of the composer's almost self-flagellating delight in the pain dealt by a cruel lover.
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Unlike the promise of dolorous sentence scrawling offered by so many of the other far more pretentious and far more dead authors in whose image I have constructed my bardic fantasies, Carrie represents a modern view of a successful writer who seems to love what she does for a living.
What Sex and the City Taught Me About Writing