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dolour

NOUN
  1. (poetry) painful grief

How To Use dolour In A Sentence

  • i slam my hands to my ears until it all becomes a blur of sound. and the preacher's dolourous tone lifts sky-ward but fails to reach the sky. Unheimlich Diary Entry
  • It is a plaintive, understated effort infused with dolour and an air of vulnerability.
  • I thought she might be a little subdued by a Monday morning dolour - as most normal people are - and discreetly removed my phone receiver from its cradle.
  • My heart sunk in to the bottomless pit as well as we hated the unhappy dolour starred behind whenever we looked in to the mirror. Sensuality Flo's Heart Opening Moments
  • These bulls were so wild, that they were never taken but by slight and crafty labour, and so impatient, that after they were taken they died from insupportable dolour. Castle Dangerous
  • Then I awoke from sleep and bade my women bring me meat and drink, so haply, when I had drunken, the dolour of the dream would cease from me. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • (ignoraunt wherfore he went in) should issue out of his maistresse chamber, the Stewarde rauished with inexplicable ioye and gladnesse, like to the pleasure of hym that had attaynde the summe of his desires, called hys Lorde to see that heauye and dolourous sighte. The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
  • And when he came there he gart unarm them, and beat them with thorns all naked, and after put them in a deep prison where were many more knights, that made great dolour. Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
  • I thought she might be a little subdued by a Monday morning dolour - as most normal people are - and discreetly removed my phone receiver from its cradle.
  • It is a plaintive, understated effort infused with dolour and an air of vulnerability.
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