doleful

Nor had his doleful, negative wife been of much help.

"When your mother and I went along there this afternoon we felt quite doleful."

Stevens said in the same doleful voice he used earlier.

It was my turn now to shake a doleful head.

My daughter sat down at the piano to play something doleful.

And never was there a more doleful battle in Christian land.

The old man looked away, his features a doleful monument.

A fat old man sat on the ice, alone, doleful.

The very last thing they'd play would be a doleful hymn.

By the doleful tone in his voice, he found that unlikely.

She passed into another ballad, this time a really doleful one.

He did not resist, but only gave me a doleful glance.

He addressed the news media afterward with a long face and a doleful voice.

They are all singing, doleful and tragic, not necessary to understand the words.

If he does go, the change will be doleful.

She really had no reason to feel doleful, she thought.

Changing to less doleful clothes, he went to the west wing.

She set down her teacup and turned to him with a doleful face.

And 10 months without a flurry makes the very pavement seem doleful.

He was taller than she'd dreamed he'd be, and more doleful.

That were a road of little mirth, A doleful travel.

There were doleful looks all around and much fool shuffling.

He has been very silent and doleful of late.

Julian put his arm round Anne, who looked a bit doleful.

His dark eyes snagged for a moment on Wizard's doleful face.