Significados de doleful face en inglés

A friend entered with a doleful face, and Temperance groaned slightly.

I am not going to allow such a doleful face.

She bustled out of the room, and Sylvia stared into space with a doleful face.

With much compunction and a doleful face he read the letter aloud in the family council.

Robin's doleful face betrayed her state of mind.

Why, what a doleful face you wear, Quarin!

That's fortunate for you, or I might have taken a color-print of your doleful face, however unwillingly.

The doleful face stoically refused tears.

Why, Mary Louise, I drew your doleful face only yesterday, and it was so funny I shrieked with glee.

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.

Hold thy chin up girl, we'll have no doleful faces to-day.

What doleful faces you both have.

I do not like doleful faces, and shall expect you to be a cheerful, contented, and obedient girl.

"Of what new freak is this doleful face the preface?" he wondered.

Our intermediaries came back and their doleful faces told us more eloquently than words that their interview had proved barren.

"What a doleful face you have!" exclaimed his host, laughingly.