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  • The tops of the park's small trees poked forlornly out of the snow at our feet, with snow-covered traffic lights swinging at head height above mounds of frozen garbage.†   (source)
  • , he shook his head as one forlorn.†   (source)
  • I'd become an expert at leaving Middletown for other places, and each time I felt at least a little forlorn.†   (source)
  • Orange Juice could have been one of these forlorn pets.†   (source)
  • Flags were waving all over the stadium, the Irish national anthem blared from all sides; the veela were shrinking back into their usual, beautiful selves now, though looking dispirited and forlorn.†   (source)
  • Al gives me a forlorn look, and I smile back in what I hope is a reassuring way.†   (source)
  • When they saw Violet and Klaus, looking forlornly at pieces of pitch-black toast, they laughed and laughed, and then made pancakes for the whole family.†   (source)
  • A forlornness would descend on her like a shroud then and would lift only when Eid had passed.†   (source)
  • Forlorn, feeling totally abandoned, I returned to my barracks.†   (source)
  • It was a forlornly unattended playground on weekends and school holidays; it was used strictly for recesses during school days, when the parochial students loitered there—they were unmoved to play many games.†   (source)
  • She kicked up a forlorn cloud of sawdust with her navy flats.†   (source)
  • Forlorn, marooned on concrete and asphalt, no place to burrow, April's orphans.†   (source)
  • I'm too weak, too confused, too empty and forlorn to do anything else but let him hold me.†   (source)
  • Now they reached soggily and emptily away from me, forlorn tennis courts on the left, enormous football and soccer and lacrosse fields in the center, woods on the right, and at the far end a small river detectable from this distance by the few bare trees along its banks.†   (source)
  • A suitcase, a knapsack spilling out clothes and trinkets; an overnight bag, broken open, beside it a forlorn pink toothbrush.†   (source)
  • "No one ever comes back," she said, looking forlornly into the pool.†   (source)
  • He looked forlornly at the blue folder that contained his cheerful speech praising a perfect launch.†   (source)
  • But instead of feeling relieved, I feel forlorn.†   (source)
  • He shakes his head, his eyes forlorn as they run over me.†   (source)
  • I looked around for Miss Peregrine and saw her perched forlornly on the edge of Adam's crater.†   (source)
  • His days were spent drilling the guard and practicing his swordplay, making the yard ring with the sound of steel as Bran watched forlornly from his window.†   (source)
  • We've been told of children searching forlornly in the smoldering ruins for their dead parents.†   (source)
  • Then, feeling light-headed and forlorn, I trudged to her bedroom and—unable to resist—cracked the door a sliver.†   (source)
  • But when the cows are done grazing tomorrow, those plants will still be standing, like forlorn pieces of broccoli left on a picky eater's plate.†   (source)
  • But the plume of snow now blowing from the summit ridge was a bad sign: the Montenegrins were struggling upward through ferocious wind arrived on the South Colour launching pad for the summit as sau It, at 1:00 P.M. A forlorn plateau of bulletproof ice and windswept boulders 26,000 feet above sea level, it occupies a broad notch between the upper ramparts of Lhotse and Everest.†   (source)
  • The whole area has the forlorn look of an abandoned animal: houses drooping slowly into the overgrown lawns.†   (source)
  • HARRY is left, looking forlorn.†   (source)
  • She hugged her arms like a forlorn child.†   (source)
  • Where is everyone? he wondered forlornly.†   (source)
  • It wasn't a baby dead, but the mother of them all, who were left looking just that much more skinny and forlorn, as if the wind got knocked out of the family when the mama went.†   (source)
  • She thinks he's handsome, I thought forlornly.†   (source)
  • He is looking forlorn, wearing a white NASA T-shirt only slightly different from the one he wore yesterday.†   (source)
  • And I never thought those unforgettable words he carved with flintstones, into the granite walls of the crudest of jails, would also provide me with hope; a forlorn hope, but hope nonetheless.†   (source)
  • They looked so forlorn that I picked them up and carried them in my cap rather than leaving them for sonic passing skunk.†   (source)
  • She was sitting at the window, looking out, a forlorn figure, wistful.†   (source)
  • He walked meekly down the aisle and got out, standing forlornly in the dirt.†   (source)
  • I stood forlornly in a corner of the pavilion and ate a sandwich.†   (source)
  • The pilot just shakes his head forlornly.†   (source)
  • She sounds so forlorn and sorrowful that Mrs. Livingston cannot hold on to her fury.†   (source)
  • But as he continued to discuss the absense of mass graves, he grew increasingly forlorn, gesturing at the diggers, shaking his head, almost ready to plead with us for sympathy and understanding.†   (source)
  • Langdon glanced forlornly at the plastic bag containing Peter's gold ring.†   (source)
  • A single chair stood on the rostrum, looking as forlorn as if someone had left it there and forgotten it.†   (source)
  • She, a forlorn, stubby convict in striped pajamas and a Fountain in a Love-in-Tokyo.†   (source)
  • A car alarm echoed forlornly behind them.†   (source)
  • He dug his heels in, looking apologetically over his shoulder at Clary's mother, who stood small and forlorn in the entryway, her hands knitted tightly together.†   (source)
  • The pile of clothes from last week is still there, and it looks dustier and more forlorn than it did a kw days ago.†   (source)
  • He was very thin, with Indian hair plastered down with scented pomade and eyeglasses for myopia, which added to his forlorn appearance.†   (source)
  • Gurney looked at Jessica, spoke in a forlorn, pleading note so unlike him: "Then you, my Lady, please …. you kill me."†   (source)
  • It was a disconcerting picture; something about the wolf's plaintive posture made him look forlorn.†   (source)
  • I like the word "gumption" because it's so homely and so forlorn and so out of style it looks as if it needs a friend and isn't likely to reject anyone who comes along.†   (source)
  • Now he paced the perimeter of the box and looked forlornly up at me.†   (source)
  • It would have been as sorrowful a sound in that heavy fog as anyone could readily conjure or imagine, and as it grew louder—as the freighter drew closer—it would have sounded all the more forlorn.†   (source)
  • It looked so forlorn in the sharp morning light.†   (source)
  • She wished forlornly and constantly that Ewen High had individual-and thus private-showers, like the high schools at Westover or Lewiston.†   (source)
  • Wandering lost and forlorn through the Prince's garden was Fezzik, leading the four giant whites.†   (source)
  • Wind frolicked the skirt and made the scarecrow sway-made it seem a creature forlornly dancing in the cold December field.†   (source)
  • Turning her aching neck slowly she began to smile but stopped as she saw her friend's forlorn look.†   (source)
  • — train whistles jetting steam along the rim of sleep, forlorn, alone and far, no matter how near they came.†   (source)
  • The memory of that loss is woven into the language of my people who speak of a "forlorn hope" by the phrase "Ukuza kuka Nxele."†   (source)
  • I STARE FORLORNLY at the windows of car 48, wondering how to break the news to Marlena that we now own an elephant, when she suddenly comes flying out the door, leaping from the platform like a gazelle.†   (source)
  • He shakes his head so forlorn.†   (source)
  • In this particular context, the nearest translation might be "the maiden all forlorn!'†   (source)
  • RUTH stands with her face covered with her hands; BENEATHA leans forlornly against a wall, fingering a piece of red ribbon from the mother's gift.†   (source)
  • "Nice talking to you," I said to Whites Boy, who looked a bit forlorn.†   (source)
  • I didn't want to watch her walk away—she looked all forlorn and spanked puppylike.†   (source)
  • Pros Passmore, uncle of the sick woman and mainstay of the forlorn little Consadine household, was always full of enthusiasm.†   (source)
  • He saw a vacant field in a city in the rain and in the field a wooden crate and he saw a dog emerge from the crate into the slack and sallow lamplight like a carnival dog forlorn and pick its way brokenly across the rubble of the lot to vanish without fanfare among the darkened buildings.†   (source)
  • Listerine's new ads featured forlorn young women and men, eager for marriage but turned off by their mate's rotten breath.†   (source)
  • A vast linoleum room filled with tables with four attached swivel chairs, it was lined on two sides by windows that looked out toward the main back entrance to the Camp, where there were parking spaces, a handicapped ramp, and a forlorn and unused basketball hoop.†   (source)
  • Colin followed, forlorn.†   (source)
  • Jimmy stood where he was, looking forlorn.†   (source)
  • "I never lie to people, but I lied to you," she said forlornly.†   (source)
  • In the washstand mirror, I catch a glimpse of Ann sitting forlornly on her bed, dressed in her best with nowhere to go, no one to see.†   (source)
  • It licked, didn't eat, turned its hungry eyes forlornly to its master.†   (source)
  • From the forlorn tone of Adam's voice, she knew instantly something was wrong.†   (source)
  • He was tucked into a concrete hive of shops off Haider Road that either had been decaying for a decade, or was waiting forlornly for construction to be completed.†   (source)
  • A photograph in The New York Times told it all: There they were, Ira and Rene, raising Old Glory one more time, but there was something forlorn in their attitudes.†   (source)
  • He was alone and felt rather forlorn' although all about him the folk of Rivendell were gathered.†   (source)
  • I kept thinking over and over as I swam how I would punish Ramo when I reached the shore, yet when I felt the sand under my feet and saw him standing at the edge of the waves, holding his fishing spear and looking so forlorn, I forgot all those things I planned to do.†   (source)
  • Finally, with no point in waiting longer, she murmurs, forlornly, "Ladies and gentlemen, our salutatorian, Cedric Jennings."†   (source)
  • Good Friday was forlorn, heavy and dreary with the death of God's son and the accompanying sense of utter hopelessness.†   (source)
  • They walked another two hours in forlorn silence, taking breaks every ten or fifteen minutes for Rachelle's and Johan's benefit now as much as his own.†   (source)
  • Perched on a stool and hunched over his plate, he sat forlornly and looked through the crowd.†   (source)
  • This was the drama that unfolded across an entire city transfixed by the exploits of fourteen boys, who a month ago were just lost faces in the indiscriminate sea of Monterrey's poor and forlorn.†   (source)
  • The sheds and buildings were empty and forlorn.†   (source)
  • ON JANUARY 14, two weeks into the new year, George Washington wrote one of the most forlorn, despairing letters of his life.†   (source)
  • "He a bed, Mummy," said Jamie forlornly.†   (source)
  • He looked at Liz and gave a forlorn grin.†   (source)
  • He looks like a forlorn puppet jerking woodenly down the aisle.†   (source)
  • The friction of the greenery against the glass raised an eerie whispering like lost and forlorn voices.†   (source)
  • To escape the forlornness and the squalor I sought Michael's company.†   (source)
  • And who's that?" she muttered, her voice quiet and forlorn.†   (source)
  • In the morning Deo awoke to find himself among a forlorn little group, wet and cold and hungry, the women and children all silent, the men talking softly about what they should do.†   (source)
  • Instead of looking at him, I look forlornly at the strappy slippers.†   (source)
  • On the stoop of her rooming house, she said to him forlornly, "I'm sorry if I let you down …."†   (source)
  • She sat in the backseat with her head in her hands, forlorn and unmoving, not looking over at him.†   (source)
  • Yelping and whining, he crouched forlorn between the rails, yearning towards us but not moving.†   (source)
  • I looked to Uncle Press to see if he were appreciating this forlorn piece of old New York history the same as I was.†   (source)
  • I cooked well enough, cleaned enough, was romantic and sensitive and silly enough, I made love enough, was paternal, big brotherly, just a good friend enough, father-to-my-son enough, forlorn enough, and then even bullheaded and dull and macho enough, to make it all seamless.†   (source)
  • Alessandro asked in a voice so puzzled and forlorn that his father folded the newspaper and pushed aside his tea and toast.†   (source)
  • Bradford's brother) of Auburn Theological Seminary, said: "Her [Harriet's] household is very likely to consist of several old black people, 'bad with the rheumatiz,' some forlorn wandering woman, and a couple of small images of God cut in ebony.†   (source)
  • Junior got his house, but it didn't seem to make him as happy as you might expect, and he had often been seen contemplating it with a puzzled, forlorn sort of look on his face.†   (source)
  • Mary is like a child, so forlorn that she lacks the will to protest as others make her decisions for her.†   (source)
  • "In the armpit," he gloomed forlornly.†   (source)
  • Mama was standing in the kitchen with a forlorn look on her face, a silver tray beautifully arranged with strawberries and kiwis that she had had to travel great distances and pay great prices to find, her fondue pot bubbling with chocolate, the semisweet kind just as Angela had requested.†   (source)
  • Behind her the bear and the photo lay forlornly against the brick, resembling nothing so much as a temporary shrine to the dead.†   (source)
  • The mirrors had been trundled out with forklifts and were now scattered around the parking lot, looking just a hit forlorn.†   (source)
  • The hotel looked old and forlorn and empty, like an abandoned farmhouse outside Fort Dodge.†   (source)
  • A pink-silk pajama top fluttered from a palmetto, a forlorn flag to mark the end of a vacation.†   (source)
  • "No …" he said forlornly, "the gators like turtle better than they do us."†   (source)
  • Hesitantly, the outcast waddled forward with blowzy feathers and a forlorn lopsided glance, pecking at the crumbs as she spoke.†   (source)
  • HELEN with her hand free strokes her cheek, suddenly forlorn.†   (source)
  • For his mind was full of forlorn hopes, death-or-glory charges, and last stands.†   (source)
  • A little further down the road was a magnificent old house with wagon wheels in the yard and the forlorn appearance assumed by all houses that have lost their people.†   (source)
  • Nothing to say, nothing to do, and only one hope--I hope he didn't suffer--and what a forlorn and last-choice hope that is.†   (source)
  • One might marry more than one--it was the usual practice of ancient civilizations--but one did not leave any of one's wives forlorn.†   (source)
  • No Brahman, who would not be regarded as Brahmans and lived with them, no ascetic who would not find his refuge in the caste of the Samanas, and even the most forlorn hermit in the forest was not just one and alone, he was also surrounded by a place he belonged to, he also belonged to a caste, in which he was at home.†   (source)
  • She saw him grab the leg and then she saw it for an instant slanted forlornly across the inside of the suitcase with a Bible at either side of its opposite ends.†   (source)
  • His eyes darted forlornly around, hunting rescue, or escape.†   (source)
  • He was a small, forlorn figure, oddly relaxed she thought.†   (source)
  • Against what evil, against what forlorn love Was this predestined fervor meant?†   (source)
  • In the dark and empty hall, by itself, the telephone was shrilling fiercely, forlorn as an abandoned baby and even more peremptory to be quieted.†   (source)
  • "It is hot within," she said forlornly.†   (source)
  • The old man had given each of them one long, rather forlorn look for a farewell, and had gone away, no less preoccupied than he had ever been.†   (source)
  • Three days downstream they found a small cave, found living in it a forlorn colony of five girls.†   (source)
  • For his pride and affectionate gratitude for what she was doing (he would never have believed that his forlorn house could look like this) overshadowed his patient disappointment.†   (source)
  • "I have slept many eons," the god said forlornly.†   (source)
  • "Sadie," he said forlornly, "when you become a parent, you may understand this.†   (source)
  • She walked forlornly to the train station and waited for her papa for hours.†   (source)
  • Well, don't you look like a forlorn lil thangi" he says.†   (source)
  • Venkat stared forlornly at his once-clean desk, now strewn with scores of printouts.†   (source)
  • I spotted Auk IV lying forlornly in the coal dust beside the railroad track.†   (source)
  • For most of the days, Mariam stayed in bed, feeling adrift and forlorn.†   (source)
  • He felt old, forlorn, useless, and his desire to cry was so urgent that he could not speak.†   (source)
  • Alice nodded, her face suddenly forlorn.†   (source)
  • Breaking waves that moonlight and forlorn hope fashioned into illusion?†   (source)
  • Jalil looked at her with a forlorn expression.†   (source)
  • How many forlorn hours in the arboreal city with only meerkats for company?†   (source)
  • She sounded so disappointed-and looked so forlorn-Eragon felt guilty for rebuffing her.†   (source)
  • She looked forlorn, truly lost in a way that he'd seen only once before.†   (source)
  • He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians.†   (source)
  • He emerged to the forlorn collection of grooms but offered no verdict.†   (source)
  • But he had been a forlorn hope at a time when she had needed hope, no matter how forlorn.†   (source)
  • Balerion's sails hung limp, drooping forlorn from the masts.†   (source)
  • He was looking oddly forlorn in a patch of moonlight, his dark hair falling over his face.†   (source)
  • But today the platform teemed with hundreds of children, all of whom looked lost and forlorn.†   (source)
  • He returned to practicing his forlorn stare out the window.†   (source)
  • Julie paused for a long moment, looking almost forlorn.†   (source)
  • But I'm forlorn because Veronica seems forlorn, and all because of my stupid cowardice.†   (source)
  • He could see Frodo below him, a grey forlorn figure splayed against the cliff.†   (source)
  • Castle Black seemed a bleak and forlorn place in the pale dawn light.†   (source)
  • And then, forlornly: "I guess you've always hated me."†   (source)
  • He looks even more forlorn now that he's unable to lean on her.†   (source)
  • Tom watched her go, then he turned and looked out into the forlorn little backyard.†   (source)
  • Across the water Edmure Tully stood forlorn atop the tall grey gallows, with a rope around his neck.†   (source)
  • RUTH comes in forlornly and pulls off her coat with dejection.†   (source)
  • The Ship was closed up and forlorn, its troupe of mummers no doubt still abed.†   (source)
  • It will molder; it will get all forlorn; it will break my heart.†   (source)
  • WHY Anusr ALL MY PATHS lead to the forlorn, unpolished wards of some hospital?†   (source)
  • Ehlers had never forgotten a rape victim telling her forlornly: "If only I had teeth down there.†   (source)
  • The chaplain shook his head, chewing his clotted dry lower lip forlornly, and walked out.†   (source)
  • Looking tired and kind of forlorn, she said, "Well, if you think folks will understand…."†   (source)
  • The thin girl on the grey mare looked small and forlorn in their midst.†   (source)
  • Subway trains still flew by, but it had been a long time since any had stopped at this forlorn spot.†   (source)
  • In the plaza before the Great Pyramid, the Meereenese huddled forlorn.†   (source)
  • Even the castle had seemed forlorn and abandoned.†   (source)
  • Paige still has her arms up in a forlorn gesture, but I can't quite bring myself to go hug her.†   (source)
  • The gull cried once more, a raucous scream, forlorn.†   (source)
  • For thus is it spoken: Oft hope is born, when all is forlorn.†   (source)
  • Several forlorn farmhouses dotted the rim of the forest.†   (source)
  • They were not so forlorn when they could eat acorns and trot quickly where they would go.†   (source)
  • The pity of it was that it was a forlorn battle.†   (source)
  • Rufus watched her with awe, Catherine with forlorn worry.†   (source)
  • Dances would have been held there; the music lingered, a palimpsest of unheard sound, style upon style, an undercurrent of drums, a forlorn wail, garlands made of tissue-paper flowers, cardboard devils, a revolving ball of mirrors, powdering the dancers with a snow of light.†   (source)
  • As he was looking forlorn, and as it were at a loss, and as I suspected that not all was going well with him, I did not say that I could not remember.†   (source)
  • The chickens had been shut away, the yard had been swept, and the nearby garden had been pruned, plucked, and generally spruced up, although Harry, who liked it in its overgrown state, thought that it looked rather forlorn without its usual contingent of capering gnomes.†   (source)
  • All day the dog shadowed Pari, sniffing at her heels, and at night, when they parted ways, he lay outside the door, forlorn, waiting for morning.†   (source)
  • "Moo," Bessie said forlornly.†   (source)
  • And he had no use for their pity, their woebegone looks, all the forlorn headshaking at the wretched spectacle he had become.†   (source)
  • The straight lines of the alders and maples behind the Packard, blunt and clean against a sea of snow, the hard, grayish quality of the snowstorm light, the forlorn and helpless car itself with its upturned tires gathering soft mounds of white, its passenger compartment nuzzled into the frozen undergrowth so that only the bottom halves of the windows showed—this was a storm scene if ever there was one, and Ishmael shot it with an eye toward its pathetic aspect and because it seemed to…†   (source)
  • Velutha put Rahel down, and she stood forlornly at the edge of the driveway, on the periphery of the Play, a Gnap looming large and nasty on her horizon.†   (source)
  • But they just flew off, leaving me a somewhat forlorn figure standing outside the house, trying to put on my shirt, and wondering again whether anyone would ever come and rescue me.†   (source)
  • I soon realized I had created a bathtub monster; pretty soon Marley began going into the bathroom alone without me and standing there, staring forlornly at the faucet, licking at it for any lingering drop, flicking the drain knob with his nose until couldn't stand it any longer and would come in and turn it on for him.†   (source)
  • He struggled on the verge of speech, but with a contemptuous look she turned and climbed back through the portrait hole… The corridor dissolved, and the scene took a little longer to reform: Harry seemed to fly through shifting shapes and colors until his surroundings solidified again and he stood on a hilltop, forlorn and cold in the darkness, the wind whistling through the branches of a few leafless trees.†   (source)
  • Most of the cages were patches of dirt surrounded by iron bars, with forlorn gorillas or restless bears or irritable monkeys or anxious gazelles huddled in the corners.†   (source)
  • Spring turned to summer, humidity and garbage smells, the streets full of people and the ailanthus trees leafing out dark and full; and then summer to autumn, forlorn and chilled.†   (source)
  • The screams continue, some only a few feet away, some so distant and forlorn you could mistake them for something else—for owls, maybe, hooting peacefully in their trees.†   (source)
  • The glasses and plates from the night before were still on the table, and they looked very lonely and forlorn, as if some great and sudden disaster had overtaken all who had eaten and drunk from them, and here was I, coming upon them by accident, many years later; and I felt very sad.†   (source)
  • Her expression was forlorn.†   (source)
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