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Dolorous adj.

Full of grief; sad; sorrowful; doleful; dismal; as, a dolorous object; dolorous discourses. "You take me in too dolorous a sense; I spake to you for your comfort."

Occasioning pain or grief; painful. "Their dispatch is quick, and less dolorous than the paw of the bear or teeth of the lion."

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Etymology of 'Dolorous'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dolorous" Quotes from Famous Books

... stand coupled together to support small arcades; all these pretty shapes of white marble under their dark arcades form an aerial population of the utmost grace and novelty. Nowhere here are we conscious of the dolorous reverie of the medieval north; it is the fete of a young nation which is awakening, and, in the gladness of its recent prosperity, honoring its gods. It has collected capitals, ornaments, entire columns obtained on the distant shores to which its wars and its commerce ...

— Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Vol VIII - Italy and Greece, Part Two • Various

... They occupied part of the second cabin, separated only by a board partition from our room. This proximity was any thing but agreeable. They kept us awake more than half the night, by singing and howling in the most dolorous manner, with the accompaniment of slapping their hands violently on their bare breasts. We tried an opposition, and a young German student, who was returning home after two years' travel in America, made our room ring with the chorus from Der Freischutz—but in vain. They ...

— Views a-foot • J. Bayard Taylor

... few moments the dolorous voices were left behind, and the cheerful light of the plain reasserted itself. Norcross, looking back down upon the cedars, which at a distance resembled a tufted, bronze-green carpet, musingly asked: "What do you suppose ...

— The Forester's Daughter - A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range • Hamlin Garland

... something in Mrs. Brook's dolorous drop that yet presented the news as a portent so great that he was moved again to mirth. "Ah that's where she is? Then I confess she has scored. He has never taken ME to the South ...

— The Awkward Age • Henry James

... upper half of his face smeared in soot, clashed a pair of cymbals intermittently. Pasquariel, as an apothecary in skull-cap and white apron, excited the hilarity of the onlookers by his enormous tin clyster, which emitted when pumped a dolorous squeak. ...

— Scaramouche - A Romance of the French Revolution • Rafael Sabatini

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