With whom all ioy and iolly meriment Is also deaded, and in dolour drent**.
Sith she that did my vitall powres supplie, And feeble spirits in their force maintaine, Is fetcht fro me, why seeke I to prolong My wearie daies in dolour and disdalne!
Look and behold my hapless sprite in dolour and affright: Wilt ne'er show ruth to highborn youth who lost him on the way ✿ Of Love, and fell from wealth and fame to lowest basest wight.
Presently, as his drunkenness fled, came dolourin its stead.
But his chief dolour was that he had misbehaved himself against the Earl of Arran, whose favours he was most willing to redeem, if it were possible that he might do so.
And thus, as the sword of dolour passed through our hearts, the cogitations and former determinations of many hearts were then revealed.
But fear and dolour had seized the hearts of all, and they could admit no consolation.
Sir Volmor came home from the red field of strife, Then tidings assailed him, with dolour so rife.
Then tidings assailed him, with dolour so rife, Burnt, burnt was his mother, and flown was his wife.
With whom all joy and jolly meriment Is also deaded and in dolour drent.
When he had thus fulfill'd his words, the flame In dolour parted, beating to and fro, And writhing its sharp horn.
His face each downward held; their mouth the cold, Their eyes express'd the dolour of their heart.
Juno, persavand the Troianys beild a town, For greif and dolour like to swelt and swoun.
Quhou that fers Turnus has ȝong Pallas slane, For quham hys folkis makis gret dolour and mayn.
And thou alsso, the ȝong child Icharus, 5 Quhilk son was onto this ilk Dedalus, A gret part of this wark suld haue beyn thyne, Gyf that the dolour and the huge pyne Had sufferit hym to kyth his craft on the.
Oppressit hairt indure In dolour and distress, Wappit without recure[1318] In wo remidiless.
My hew so furth schew so The dolour of my woundis.
We se also, quhen nature nocht prevalis, The pane and dolour ar sa pungitive No medicine the pacient avalis.
God gif him dolour and diseiss[1344] That brekis thair hairt, and nocht the bettir.
O meikle dolour did she dree, And aye the salt seas o'er she swam; And far mair dolour did she dree On Estmere crags, e'er she them clamb.
Whereat the old [woman] was more angry, and severely commanded her to tell her the cause of her sorrow, and why after her sleep, she should renew her dolour and miserable weeping.
Howbeit Charites after the buriall of her husband sought the meanes to follow him, and (not sustaining the sorrows wherein she was Wrapped) got her secretly into a chamber and purposed to finish her life there with dolour and tribulation.
And when that I heard proceed from your mouth the very words that he troubles me with, I did wonder and from my heart lament your sore trouble, knowing in myself the dolour thereof.
I have sometimes been in that security that I felt not dolourfor sin, neither yet displeasure against myself for any iniquity in that I did offend.
Your messenger found me in bed, after a sore trouble and most dolorous night, and so dolour may complain to dolour when we two meet.
O meikle dolour did she dree, And aye the salt seas o'er she swam; And far mair dolour did she dree 15 On Estmere crag, when she them clamb.
But filld was she wi dolour and ire, To see that to her the comlie squire 6 Preferd the debonair Isabel: Their hevin of luve of spyte was her hell.
And mickle dolour gard her dree, For lighter she can never be.
Those who knew the truth of this piteous adventure, after many days shaped it to a Lay, that all men might learn the plaint and the dolour that these two friends suffered by reason of their love.
His visage would have been the more sanguine, which was now so pale of colour, because of the dolour that was his.
In great dolour of mind and body he flew from the chamber.
When she might read the writing she learned of the great pain anddolour that her lover suffered by day and by night.
So Sir Safere departed from his brother with the greatest dolour and sorrow that ever made knight.
But for the shame and dolour he would not ride to King Arthur's court, but rode another way.
Fair brother, said Palomides, let be thy dolour and thy sorrow.
There she abode, now hoping and now despairing of the scholar's return with her clothes, and passing from one thought to another, she presently fell asleep, as one who was overcome of dolour and who had slept no whit the past night.
When Calandrino heard this, he fell a-roaring for dolour and said, 'Woe's me!
Our fatherless distress was left unmoan'd; Your widow-dolour likewise be unwept!
I have too few to take my leave of you, When the tongue's office should be prodigal To breathe the abundant dolour of the heart.
Dolour comes to him, indeed; you have spoken truer than you purpos'd.
Not if we two indeed had gone over the bourne And were safe on the hills of the blest, Not more strange they might show to us drawn from below, Come up from long dolour to rest.
Messire Thibault durst not to wed him; nor did the son of the Count either, because of the dolour wherein he saw his friends abiding.
In token of his dolour he budded on the mount a chapel to Our Lady St. Mary, that men call Helen's Tomb to this very day.
When Arthur felt the dolour of his hurt, and looked upon his blood, he desired nothing, save to wreak evil on the man who had wrought this mischief.
And so is it any wonder that when the tidings of his death was borne throughout the land "there was weeping and dolour out of measure," and that a wave of sympathy swept over the country for the bereft family of the silent singer?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dolour" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
