Up yonder,' said I, 'in the life serene, I in a valley wandered all forlorn 50 Before my years had full accomplished been.
There is a forlorn touch in the description of the chronicler that "he lay like a snake in the sun," which is full of suggestion.
He had bad dreams; he himself tells the story of this moral downfall with a forlorn attempt to show that it was not, after all, his visible enemies, or the power of men, which had cast him down.
That he was a kind of martyr to the strong conviction of a danger which threatened Christendom, and the forlorn hope of repelling it, there can be no doubt.
The castle had already a romantic story; it had sheltered many a fugitive; forlorn princesses had taken refuge within its walls from the pursuit of suitors or of enemies, the one as dangerous as the other.
That Charles himself should reply to these letters, and reason the matter out with this forlorn wanderer, shows of itself what a power was in his words and in the fervour of his purpose.
The brag was a forlorn one, but it was all of which the fallen Tribune was now capable.
On my way home I met him, shabby and forlorn enough, and what do you suppose he was doing?
Mrs. Wynn, "who would have thought thatforlorn little thing could appear so nice and scrumptious.
There had now happened to Clemence Graystone, that which, it seemed, in her forlorn situation, was the worst that fate could inflict upon her; her health failed entirely.
I can't help but pity the forlorn creature, though.
I have been invited to lead a hundred forlorn hopes," replied Sir John.
Salt had irretrievably lost his hold upon their reason, and with that hold he saw the last straw of his most forlorn hope floating away.
When it was further known that he was not lending his name half-heartedly as to a forlorn hope, or returning reluctantly as from a tardy sense of duty, men began to wonder what might lie behind.
The boy was in a hurry, and asked in so forlorn a tone: "Is we going to play?
Brave men fight for a forlorn hope, but the bravest do not fight for an issue they know to be hopeless.
Now, in Yeovil's eyes, she had suddenly come to be very old, stricken with the forlorn languor of one who knows that death will be weary to wait for.
Yet under these dismal and forlorn appearances was our delivery now preparing; and from these hopeless circumstances were we to draw hereafter an instance scarce to be paralleled, of the unsearchable ways of Providence.
He held a white handkerchief to his ear, and offered a calm, enigmatic smile to the two forlorn but victorious occupants of the dinghy.
Blessed be kindly Death, that putteth all our pains and all our longings, all our hopes and all our sorrows, all our memories and all our dreams away for ever in the great sable storehouse of forlorn void!
It seemed a forlorn thing to leave him there alone in the rain while she went jaunting off to Italy.
But it did seem to be a condition that avoided the dilemma whose horns were concealment by means of untruths and the screwing up of oneself to that clammily cold and forlorn condition, having courage.
I have not observed you offer any congratulations, Ingeborg," said the Bishop, becoming more and more displeased by her strange behaviour, and not at all liking her crumpled and forlorn appearance.
In fact, I might be part of a forlorn hope from all to the contrary I've heard from him.
His defence was as glorious as the defence of that forlorn hope in romantic history, which drew itself up and mutely died.
And what if we should see it realized in some forsaken outcast, and hear his forlorn cry, "Alone!
The next morning accordingly, Washington and his men marched out of their forlorn fortress with the honors of war, bearing with them their regimental colors, but leaving behind a large flag, too cumbrous to be transported.
Captain Bullitt rallied several of the fugitives, and prepared to make a forlorn stand, as the only chance where the enemy was overwhelming and merciless.
Not a single one noticed her forlorn aloofness, or that the blue eyes were almost brimming over with tears.
To fatigue was added humiliation, for he was forced to travel with a crowd of embittered fugitives and sleep in a forlorn house by the wayside.
Yet the imminent fall of the Napoleonic Empire only deepened the anxiety of the forlorn American envoys, for it was likely to multiply the difficulties of securing reasonable terms from his conqueror.
Her baggage lay in a forlorn heap with Louis's, all jumbled together just as the Customs Officers had left it.
After breakfast I strolled up to the post-office tent on a forlorn hope for letters.
Of course, the translation being French, was very inefficient; nor did I make any particular effort to conceal the contempt which some of its forlorn lapses were calculated to excite.
That goodly river on whose banks I had sojourned, of whose waves a few reviving drops had trickled to my lips, was bending to another course: it was leaving my little hut and fieldforlorn and sand-dry, pouring its wealth of waters far away.
Heaven's light, following her exile, pierces its confines, and discloses their forlorn remoteness.
And at that forlorn and apparently hopeless hour the young man's faith arose.
He went forward to the forlorn little parlor, where a few sticks of wet wood were sizzling and smoking, and vainly trying to burn in a little monster of a stove over in one corner.
Was there ever a more forlorn looking specimen of a baby!
Beyond the reach of the setting sun he lours in his exclusion from the rejoicing light, and imagination personifying his solitary vastness into forsaken life, pities the doom of the forlorn Giant.
Then, as if in proof of the forlorn hope which he himself did not believe; "Harry 's a strong man.
The tunnel opening looked more forlorn than ever when he sighted it, a bleak, staring, single eye which seemed to brood over its own misfortunes, a dead, hopeless thing which never had brought anything but disappointment.
A forlorn little figure Nelly looked as she strolled along the field-paths which Bessie had taken an hour before.
Mrs. Ford had never seen Nelly, but she knew something of her forlorn situation.
No answer came, but faint and forlorn An echo returned on the cold gray morn, Like the breath of a spirit sighing; The castle portal stood grimly wide; None welcomed the king from that weary ride!
Any one would have thought that such a look from the lady of his love, in such a forlorn situation, and in the hands of his mortal enemy, would have totally uprooted the last fibres of his distempered mind.
The rest were gathered round the bard; some pitying, but more like to burst with laughter at his forlorn state.
