Barnard's details of his doleful mortifications, in being "altered and mangled" by Mr. Vernon.
This was an awful interval of time; many trembled for the issue of the next morning: one letter-writer calls it "that black and doleful Thursday!
Helen tried to tell herself that the woman had merely been exercising her imagination and that her doleful hints had come out of thin air.
Helen, looking into the slattern's saturnine face, with its ludicrously doleful expression, felt an impulse to laugh in spite of her misgivings.
And is it thou that hast brought such doleful news?
But what doleful ditty is this for the lips of a stout yeoman?
For a time Betsy maintained an appearance of dignity and injured innocence, but in the end the Emperor, by mimicking her doleful expression, usually succeeded in making her laugh.
But the prospect was so doleful and so blank, that he drew a heavy sigh as he thought of it.
Soon doleful voices outside in the darkness break the stillness of night.
Probably all these doleful ditties were lamentations for the corn-god killed by the sickles of the reapers.
Just think what a doleful world it would be if everybody were sensible.
Unknown THE BABES IN THE WOOD Now ponder well, you parents dear, These words, which I shall write; A dolefulstory you shall hear, In time brought forth to light.
That were a road of little mirth, A doleful travel.
Pardon, señor, I am but a doleful guest at supper, thinking too deeply of that which sent me here.
But we have sworn it," the miserable savage replied, in a doleful voice.
It lives only in the most doleful and solitary swamps, and I doubt if there is another place in all the wide territories save here, where you may hear its voice.
This doleful cry, which was continued in spite of the violent vociferations of "order in the court!
Poor Augustine was very sorry to lose little Puck, who gave her one of his cards when he bade her good-bye; and Kiyi set up a doleful howl when they all left the court, as though he knew he should never see them again.
For William's sufferings under that instrument of discipline were not to be measured by his doleful howlings and roarings, nor even by his ready tears.
Stop that doleful strain, Giotto, I beg; you've been painfully sentimental the last day or two.
Never mind the song, you've been doleful yourself, Giotto!
Then, having pulled the broad brim of my hat down over my eyes, I took out my clasp knife (it had been given me a few days before by Roger as a memento) and began to whittle the stick, whistling a doleful tune.
She burst out crying, and ran at once into the next room to tell the doleful tidings to her sisters and Miss Harper.
Dragging himself out of the swamp at dark, the mud-bespattered leader crept back to Harmar's camp, while the doleful wails of the savages sounded loud in the inky blackness.
Here lies our leader low on the earth, 315 Struck down in the dust; doleful forever Be the traitor who tries to turn from the war-play.
I hear the doleful strains of a tin whistle accompanied with a rub-a-dub-dub of a kettledrum that has known its best days, and whose sound is as doleful as that of the whistle.
The prattle of little children and the voice of maternal love make sweet music in its doleful streets, and glorious devotion dignifies and illumines the poorest homes.
We know that they are not as other men, and we realise that their afflictions more than their sins are responsible for their presence in that doleful assembly.
Involuntarily we ask whether it has seen stranger sights, and heard more doleful sounds than the sights to be seen under its shadow to-day, and the sounds to be heard around it by night.
The Committee of Public Safety having presented a report on the scarcity of corn and bread, the Convention was electrified by the doleful recital.
She wandered a long time through extensive quarters, the solitude of which astonished her, when a distant and doleful sound thrilled her with terror.
The dull and monotonous sound of our steps, the cracking of the snow, and the feeble groans of the dying, were the only interruptions to this vast and doleful silence.
Ye be as doleful as a pack of pedlars with a full basket after the fair.
It was just as the old chimes were ringing their doleful chant from the steeple, but these hindered not a whit the other changes that were set agoing.
But there was a great outcry and lamentation when that he saw his own brother Sir Erclos in this doleful case; for it was he whom the cruel Tarquin was leading captive when he met the just reward of his misdeeds.
Thoroughly ashamed and sorry now that she believed herself to have done such fearful mischief, Mabel raised a doleful cry which speedily brought her own nurse and the maid of the little Gordons to inquire into the cause of the trouble.
Pete, in a hoarse, doleful mingling of cry and word.
In two minutes he was running the chair round to the front door, and as he passed the study window a doleful moaning greeted his ear; but it ceased upon the wheels being heard.
Such an assembly met in a large house built for the purpose and well lighted with torches, for the doleful concert always took place at night.
They believed that the spirits of those who had not received the rites of burial wandered about wretched and forlorn and haunted their relatives everywhere by day and night, crying in doleful tones, "Oh, how cold!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "doleful" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
