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A most doleful lugubrious dirge mingles with the drum and horn.
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And at last he met Jolly Robin, who appeared most doleful.
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The next letter was written six days later, evidently in the most doleful mood:
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She had been swaying to and fro, and moaning in the most doleful manner.
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And again I sat on a hillock and surrendered to the most doleful meditations.
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Their son uttered the most doleful howls as a protest to this terrible business.
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Therefore I will e'en begin at that most doleful day.
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Baraka then, in the most doleful manner, said he would go if the Pig would.
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Here a consultation of the most doleful character that can be imagined was entered into.
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My teenage years were miserable enough, but Sundays were the most doleful day of all.
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Oh, but I'm not; I'm the most doleful thing you ever knew at home sometimes.
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By hundreds they came, and surrounding the body of their friend raised the most doleful howls.
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Jenks brought her a biscuit, a tin of meat, and that most doleful cup of champagne.
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There's a most doleful and most mocking funeral!
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The wind sang most doleful strains, and the bending branches of the trees sighed sadly over them.
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He sings in the most doleful places.
