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Example sentences for "lorn"

Lexicographically close words:
lorgnon; lorica; lories; lorikeet; lorimers; loro; loron; lorries; lorry; lors
  1. To him, then, at this moment of inevitable reaction, the love-lorn Salim, entering in haste.

  2. The cook's young son and the love-lorn peddler from Washington Street alone peopled a world of ice and water, all black and white: heaving, confined.

  3. He turned him round about to all airts with his eyes from Cruachan to Cowal, and as far between Knapdale and Lorn as a wanderer has vision, and yonder, down at Kames, was the camp of his clan!

  4. Sometimes in the spring of the year the winds from Lorn have it their own way with the Highlands.

  5. I waste for him my breath Who wasted his for me; but mine returns, And this lorn bosom burns With stifling heat, heaving it up in sleep, And waking me to weep Tears that had melted his soft heart: for years Wept he as bitter tears.

  6. And there I sit Reading old things, Of knights and lorn damsels, While the wind sings-- O, drearily sings!

  7. I have noted the air of sadness in these lone, lorn monuments, which perhaps arises from the sense of their vast age and all they have looked down upon.

  8. So sings the lorn and lonely nightingale, Sighing in sombre thicket all day long, Weaving its throbbing heartstrings into song For absent mate, with sorrowing unavail.

  9. Thus am I," she muttered, wailing, "Left to linger lorn and lonely In the morning of my being.

  10. Little Lily came the day Both our hearts were lorn and lone.

  11. THESE reasons strongly with the mother weighed; Her visit to the 'squire was not delayed; With fond affection for her darling heir, One morn, alone she sought the lorn repair.

  12. AT length our lover to a wood retired; To live concealed was what the youth desired; Lorn silence reigned, except from birds that sang, And dells that oft with sweetest echo rang.

  13. Sullen before that cavern's vast repose, 6 Like the lorn wrecks of a despairing race Chased to their last hold by triumphant foes, Darkness and Horror stood!

  14. The wise one weened then that wielding his kingdom 'Gainst the ancient commandments, he had bitterly angered 20 The Lord everlasting: with lorn meditations His bosom welled inward, as was nowise his custom.

  15. Gave me willingly to see on the wall a Heavy old hand-sword hanging in splendor (He guided most often the lorn and the friendless), That I swung as a weapon.

  16. The love-lorn Matthew had departed, no doubt unable to bear the sight of that staircase whose boards no longer resounded with the slip-slap of the slippers of that hypocritical beauty, "his Mary.

  17. Lorn held the loch in his boats, and ambushed a party on the ridge commanding the pass.

  18. John of Lorn then sent forward five of his stoutest men to take Bruce.

  19. Bruce rode after his men, and Lorn retired in chagrin.

  20. You seem to enjoy our discomfiture,' said Lorn angrily.

  21. Under the mystic moon love-lorn damsels did their magic rites, and knit up spells of power to bring home the men they loved.

  22. She made but little reply to his love-lorn tale, except to laugh at him and assure him he would soon overcome it; but that night in the privacy of her room she questioned Blanch in a sly way very amusing to that shrewd daughter.

  23. At least they might have seemed long to any but an enraptured young man who had for the entire day been kept from uttering one of the many love-lorn words that filled his heart.

  24. Little avails it Orpheus that his sire Was more than man; for though his songs restrain The wolves of Ismara, his love-lorn lyre Wails in the wildwood gloom with anguish vain.

  25. Her art it is, if with a husband near, A lady darts a love-lorn look and smile To one more blest; but languid sloth and fear Receive not Venus' perfect gift of guile.

  26. Thereafter, the lorn exile homeward stole And clung a suppliant to the hearth divine, And for himself won this immunity?

  27. Thou seest it with a love-lorn maiden's eyes.

  28. In that lorn hour and desolate, Who could endure a crown?

  29. It began, Patricia, through our both feeling lone and lorn and trying to comfort each other.

  30. Not since the first night in the dormitory at Holly House had Pixie felt so lone and lorn as she did when the door was shut, and she was left alone in the big, luxurious bedroom.

  31. Other important works of a similar character were afterwards established by the Argyle Furnace Company, and by the Lorn Company, at Inverary.


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lorn" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.