1 The tunes were either very lively or very doleful, and he sang words to some of them.
2 There was one who raised a doleful cry.
3 The men's faces grew doleful from the interpreting of omens.
4 The expression of her face was an odd mixture of shrewdness and cunning, over which was oddly drawn, like a kind of veil, an expression of the most doleful gravity and solemnity.
5 So it was not very pleasant when she opened the door of her room, to see Martha standing waiting for her with a doleful face.
6 The clock of the Invalides struck a quarter to twelve; the west wind bore on its moistened gusts the doleful vibration of the three strokes.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 82. The Burglary. 7 She passed into another ballad, this time a really doleful one.
8 If he does go, the change will be doleful.
9 We had a doleful parting, and when I took my place by Magwitch's side, I felt that that was my place henceforth while he lived.
10 I picture my small self in the dimly-lighted rooms, sitting with my head upon my hand, listening to the doleful performance of Mr. Mell, and conning tomorrow's lessons.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 5. I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME 11 He has been very silent and doleful of late.
12 One sent forth the praises of Athelstane in a doleful panegyric; another, in a Saxon genealogical poem, rehearsed the uncouth and harsh names of his noble ancestry.
13 At the same time, Thenardier perceived in the direction of the Bastille a wan whiteness lighting up the edge of the sky in doleful wise.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT 14 If the philosopher succeeds in fixing, for a moment, for purposes of observation, this language which is incessantly evaporating, he falls into doleful and useful meditation.
15 For Boris, Julie played most doleful nocturnes on her harp.