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Meanings of doleful face in English

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Usage of doleful face in English
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A friend entered with a doleful face, and Temperance groaned slightly.
The Morgesons: A Novel
2
I am not going to allow such a doleful face.
More about Pixie
3
She bustled out of the room, and Sylvia stared into space with a doleful face.
More about Pixie
4
With much compunction and a doleful face he read the letter aloud in the family council.
Ben Blair / The Story of a Plainsman
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Robin's doleful face betrayed her state of mind.
Red-Robin
6
Why, what a doleful face you wear, Quarin!
Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical Novel
7
That's fortunate for you, or I might have taken a color-print of your doleful face, however unwillingly.
Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 04
8
The doleful face stoically refused tears.
Complete Books of Blood
9
Why, Mary Louise, I drew your doleful face only yesterday, and it was so funny I shrieked with glee.
Mary Louise
10
The cabinet-maker came to the foot of the steps to ask about the lame knee, and shook his head in sympathy with Maurice's doleful face.
Mr. Pat's Little Girl: A Story of the Arden Foresters
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Hold thy chin up girl, we'll have no doleful faces to-day.
"Unto Caesar"
12
What doleful faces you both have.
Daddy Takes Us to the Garden / The Daddy Series for Little Folks
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I do not like doleful faces, and shall expect you to be a cheerful, contented, and obedient girl.
St. Elmo
14
"Of what new freak is this doleful face the preface?" he wondered.
The Honor of the Name
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Our intermediaries came back and their doleful faces told us more eloquently than words that their interview had proved barren.
Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons: Wesel, Sennelager, Klinge...
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"What a doleful face you have!" exclaimed his host, laughingly.
Gerfaut — Complete
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