It was a beautiful autumn afternoon, and the wind had entirely died away.When I came within sight of our old home, it presented a doleful appearance.The bow had drifted out into the river, and was almost entirely under water.…Cited from Rudder Grange, by Frank R. Stockton
On the 15th of December he enters the Tower.Little dreams he that for more than twelve years those doleful walls would be his home.Lady Raleigh obtains leave to share his prison with him, and, after having passed ten years without a child, brings him a boy to comfort the weary heart.…Cited from Sir Walter Raleigh and His Times, by Kingsley
On his way home, he stopped for supper at Albany, and there he met CYRUS W. FIELD and Commodore VANDERBILT.One of these gentlemen was looking very happy and the other very doleful.…Cited from Punchinello, Vol. I, No. 24, September 10, 1870, by Various
How could any one be doleful under so much joy?Cited from One Woman's Life, by Robert Herrick
With what have you stopped your ears that you do not hear these doleful sounds?Cited from Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887, by Edward Bellamy
He looked very doleful -- for he didn't know what to do.But Chirpy Cricket laughed merrily -- as was his custom.…Cited from The Tale of Daddy Longlegs, by Arthur Scott Bailey
So they went on a little further, and they thought that they felt the ground begin to shake under them, as if some hollow place was there; they heard also a kind of a hissing, as of serpents, but nothing as yet appeared.Then said the boys, Are we not yet at the end of this doleful place?…Cited from The Works of John Bunyan Volume 3, by John Bunyan
All that evening Dimple sat with one arm around Florence; and, although Rock was so glad to see his mother, he said that he would have Dimple so short a time that he must sit by her, and the three children sat on the steps, Rock holding Dimple's hand and trying his best to cheer her up.But a more doleful face than appeared at the breakfast table could not be found.…Cited from A Sweet Little Maid, by Amy E. Blanchard
The sable trains which pass our windows, the frequent indications of crowding haste, and the absence of reverent decency have, in many cases, been most painful.Of course all these things, whether we will or no, bring very doleful images to the mind.On Tuesday one hundred and sixteen deaths from cholera were reported, and that night the air was of that peculiarly oppressive, deathly kind that seems to lie like lead on the brain and soul.…Cited from Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe,Charles Edward Stowe
The rooms, having all these drawbacks, and being destitute of the commonest appliances for comfort or decency, did not appear to be in the highest degree eligible; yet the Pensioner considered himself fortunate in having secured them.His experience in living must have been very doleful, for he declared that he had seen worse places.In itself, and so far as the landlord was concerned, I doubted him; but I had myself seen fouler places than these two rooms, which had been made so by the tenants.…Cited from Lights and Shadows of New York Life, by James D. McCabe
It was apparent now that it is true what they say: a stork can seldom open his bill without complaining.But what made the thing he said sound even more doleful was that it was difficult for him to speak out.He stood for a long time and only clattered with his bill; afterward he spoke in a hoarse and feeble voice.…Cited from The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, by Selma Lagerloef
Rest and care, and freedom from suspense, have done good work already, so don't begin to lament too soon, for I may cheat the doctors yet.Now smile and look like yourself, for we can allow no doleful faces to-day.It is a happy day for me, for once more I have two sons to love and be proud of.…Cited from More About Peggy, by Mrs G. de Horne Vaizey
He considered it a great piece of luck that Miriam should be able to go to the seashore, but it was also wonderful luck that Miss Drane should happen to be here while Miriam was away.Had both gone, he would have had a doleful time of it.As it was, his time was not at all doleful.…Cited from The Girl at Cobhurst, by Frank Richard Stockton
I mope around the livelong day, And scarcely care to munch my hay.I am so doleful and so sad, I really do feel awful bad!Oh hurry, Midge, and come back soon; Perhaps to-morrow afternoon.…Cited from Marjorie's Vacation, by Carolyn Wells
The whole state of religion is in question, and the realm of England also, if this action quail.God grant we never live to see that doleful day.Her Majesty hath such footing now in these parts, as I judge it impossible for the King to weary her out, if every man will put to the work his helping hand, whereby it may be lustily followed, and the war not suffered to cool.…Cited from History United Netherlands, 1585-86 by Motley
Still, I do not think, even then, that I really intended to try any such foolhardy adventure.For all that I could tell, it might be certain death, to enter that doleful looking opening.And yet, such is the pertinacity of human curiosity, that, at last, my chief desire was but to discover what lay beyond that gloomy entrance.…Cited from The House on the Borderland, by William Hope Hodgson
But though Little Bo-Peep was as good as she was beautiful, she sometimes met with misfortunes that made her very sad.Once, when she lost her sheep, she was very doleful indeed.…Cited from My First Picture Book, by Joseph Martin Kronheim
It was midway in the forenoon that Frank met Mr. Slush on deck.The little man was looking more doleful and dejected than ever, if possible.…Cited from Frank Merriwell's Nobility, by Burt L. Standish (AKA Gilbert Patten)
She started, her cheeks red with the blood that fled her heart when she heard this doleful news.Cited from Visionaries, by James Huneker
The night operators will have a cot for the one off duty, so that if anything unusual happens the waking one can call the other.I think it must be doleful to stay alone in such a place during those gruesome night hours.…Cited from Joyce's Investments, by Fannie E. Newberry
