All 4 Uses of
doleful
in
Jane Eyre
- She passed into another ballad, this time a really doleful one.†
Chpt 3 *
- If he does go, the change will be doleful.†
Chpt 15
- The gale still rising, seemed to my ear to muffle a mournful under-sound; whether in the house or abroad I could not at first tell, but it recurred, doubtful yet doleful at every lull; at last I made out it must be some dog howling at a distance.†
Chpt 25
- Yet how, on this dark and doleful evening, could you so suddenly rise on my lone hearth?†
Chpt 37
Definition:
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(doleful) expressing or causing sadness