All 4 Uses of
forlorn
in
Hard Times
- 'I wish I could have made a better acknowledgment, sir, of your kindness to a poor forlorn girl who had no claim upon you, and of your protection of her.'†
Chpt 1.14 *
- 'O my child, my child!' he said, in a forlorn manner, 'I am an unhappy man to see you thus!†
Chpt 3.1
- With the people filing off at the door he held, who he knew would carry what had passed to the whole town, to be given to the four winds, he could not have looked a Bully more shorn and forlorn, if he had had his ears cropped.†
Chpt 3.5
- They all three went in; and Mr. Gradgrind sat down forlorn, on the Clown's performing chair in the middle of the ring.†
Chpt 3.7
Definition:
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(forlorn) sad, hopeless, pitiful and/or abandoned