All 5 Uses of
doleful
in
Great Expectations
- After this escape, I was content to take a foggy view of the Inn through the window's encrusting dirt, and to stand dolefully looking out, saying to myself that London was decidedly overrated.†
Chpt 21
- I had scarcely arrived at the total when a seventh was heard, as in the region of air, wailing dolefully.†
Chpt 22 *
- Rather a stately house of its kind, but dolefully in want of painting, and with dirty windows.†
Chpt 26
- What a doleful night!†
Chpt 45
- We had a doleful parting, and when I took my place by Magwitch's side, I felt that that was my place henceforth while he lived.†
Chpt 54
Definition:
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(doleful) expressing or causing sadness