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Meanings of very doleful in English
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Usage of very doleful in English
1
Their songs are Harmonious enough, but very doleful to a European ear.
2
One of these gentlemen was looking very happy and the other very doleful.
3
I assured him sympathetically that I had never heard-andhe became very doleful.
4
Once, when she lost her sheep, she was very doleful indeed.
5
Horatio had been very doleful of late and she wished to cheer him up.
6
He looked very doleful-forhe didn't know what to do.
7
He was, however, very doleful in general, and complained bitterly of Burghley and the other English counsellors.
8
The tunes were either very lively or very doleful, and he sang words to some of them.
9
I'm in town on very doleful business, and have come to see if you can help me.'
10
His experience in living must have been very doleful, for he declared that he had seen worse places.
11
O King this is very doleful.
12
Betty began to feel very doleful at being one step above John in this the beginning of their career.
13
Mr. Newcombe stood very doleful.
14
Gustave looked very doleful.
15
All this was very doleful, and had a tendency to depress the spirits of a man awake and alone in a good-sized house.
16
It seem she has written in a very doleful strain to thee,-talkedvery pathetically about his debts to his laundress and his landlady.
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