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Meanings of doleful day in English

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Usage of doleful day in English
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God grant we never live to see that doleful day.
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the ...
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Therefore I will e'en begin at that most doleful day.
The Cloister and the Hearth
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Alas that ever I should see this doleful day.
The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain
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My teenage years were miserable enough, but Sundays were the most doleful day of all.
The Guardian
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Thus did the vision leave me, and many a doleful day succeeded to the parting moment.
Twice-Told Tales
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This has been a doleful day for me.
The Queen of Hearts
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As the sun was setting on that doleful day, Company A was ordered forward to the skirmish-line.
Who Goes There? / The Story of a Spy in the Civil War
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A watery Sabbath means a doleful day, and 'A watery Sabbath it is,' he replied with feeling.
Margaret Ogilvy
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As time goes on, he realises keenly what a doleful day it was for him when that other died.
The Spinster Book
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Alas that ever I should see this doleful day, for now, said Arthur, I am come to mine end.
Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 2
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A doleful day succeeded.
Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada, from the mss. of Fray Anto...
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But I thought you lost that serious little girl on the doleful day when she heard you say that you loved me best.
Tommy and Grizel
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A mystery has ever hung and ever must continue to hang, over the fate of King Roderick, in that dark and doleful day of Spain.
The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 / Volu...
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Their visit to Dunbarton was all happiness and reparation for the doleful days at Bennington.
The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains
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'If that doleful day should come, while Duncan Macwheeble had a boddle it should be Miss Rose's.
Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since — Volume 2
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'Alas,' said the king, 'that ever I should see this doleful day, for now is my end come.
King Arthur's Knights / The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls
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