Everything connected with death was then rendered inexpressibly dolorous.
He could see, foreshortened, the tear-stained, dolorous face of the woman stretched out, and with her head thrown over the back of the seat.
I asked him how many intrigues he has had, and he replied, with a dolorous face, only half a dozen yet.
She always speaks with a wailing, dolorous voice—you are nervously expecting her to burst into tears every moment.
The officer tranquilly watched this dolorous struggle.
Examplesofdolorous
dolorous
Thedolorousbrass canons return, underpinned now by the oscillating seventh on timpani.
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What we have is the opportunity of learning from thedolorousconditions of the present conflict how it may never happen again.
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It looks a little like a classical sarcophagus with adolorousfemale figure base in marble on it.
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They were vexed anddolorous.
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