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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)
  • Al gives me a forlorn look, and I smile back in what I hope is a reassuring way.†   (source)
  • Orange Juice could have been one of these forlorn pets.†   (source)
  • A forlornness would descend on her like a shroud then and would lift only when Eid had passed.†   (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)
  • He looked forlornly at the blue folder that contained his cheerful speech praising a perfect launch.†   (source)
  • I looked around for Miss Peregrine and saw her perched forlornly on the edge of Adam's crater.†   (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)
  • 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 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • He shakes his head, his eyes forlorn as they run over me.†   (source)
  • But instead of feeling relieved, I feel forlorn.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • She thinks he's handsome, I thought forlornly.†   (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)
  • Forlorn, feeling totally abandoned, I returned to my barracks.†   (source)
  • Then, feeling light-headed and forlorn, I trudged to her bedroom and—unable to resist—cracked the door a sliver.†   (source)
  • We've been told of children searching forlornly in the smoldering ruins for their dead parents.†   (source)
  • She, a forlorn, stubby convict in striped pajamas and a Fountain in a Love-in-Tokyo.†   (source)
  • he wondered forlornly.†   (source)
  • She hugged her arms like a forlorn child.†   (source)
  • A single chair stood on the rostrum, looking as forlorn as if someone had left it there and forgotten it.†   (source)
  • He sighed forlornly.†   (source)
  • He is looking forlorn, wearing a white NASA T-shirt only slightly different from the one he wore yesterday.†   (source)
  • She was sitting at the window, looking out, a forlorn figure, wistful.†   (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)
  • Now he paced the perimeter of the box and looked forlornly up at me.†   (source)
  • Langdon glanced forlornly at the plastic bag containing Peter's gold ring.†   (source)
  • It looked so forlorn in the sharp morning light.†   (source)
  • The pilot just shakes his head forlornly.†   (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)
  • A car alarm echoed forlornly behind them.†   (source)
  • "No one ever comes back," she said, looking forlornly into the pool.†   (source)
  • It was a disconcerting picture; something about the wolf's plaintive posture made him look forlorn.†   (source)
  • She wished forlornly and constantly that Ewen High had individual-and thus private-showers, like the high schools at Westover or Lewiston.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians.†   (source)
  • She sounds so forlorn and sorrowful that Mrs. Livingston cannot hold on to her fury.†   (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)
  • Gurney looked at Jessica, spoke in a forlorn, pleading note so unlike him: "Then you, my Lady, please ....you kill me."†   (source)
  • Good Friday was forlorn, heavy and dreary with the death of God's son and the accompanying sense of utter hopelessness.†   (source)
  • — train whistles jetting steam along the rim of sleep, forlorn, alone and far, no matter how near they came.†   (source)
  • Wandering lost and forlorn through the Prince's garden was Fezzik, leading the four giant whites.†   (source)
  • He walked meekly down the aisle and got out, standing forlornly in the dirt.†   (source)
  • "Nice talking to you," I said to Whites Boy, who looked a bit forlorn.†   (source)
  • The hotel looked old and forlorn and empty, like an abandoned farmhouse outside Fort Dodge.†   (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)
  • Turning her aching neck slowly she began to smile but stopped as she saw her friend's forlorn look.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • "I never lie to people, but I lied to you," she said forlornly.†   (source)
  • Perched on a stool and hunched over his plate, he sat forlornly and looked through the crowd.†   (source)
  • Wind frolicked the skirt and made the scarecrow sway-made it seem a creature forlornly dancing in the cold December field.†   (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)
  • Jimmy stood where he was, looking forlorn.†   (source)
  • He shakes his head so forlorn.†   (source)
  • I didn't want to watch her walk away—she looked all forlorn and spanked puppylike.†   (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)
  • In this particular context, the nearest translation might be "the maiden all forlorn!'†   (source)
  • Listerine's new ads featured forlorn young women and men, eager for marriage but turned off by their mate's rotten breath.†   (source)
  • Finally, with no point in waiting longer, she murmurs, forlornly, "Ladies and gentlemen, our salutatorian, Cedric Jennings."†   (source)
  • From the forlorn tone of Adam's voice, she knew instantly something was wrong.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Pros Passmore, uncle of the sick woman and mainstay of the forlorn little Consadine household, was always full of enthusiasm.†   (source)
  • He looked at Liz and gave a forlorn grin.†   (source)
  • By sunrise, Max was seated on a stool in Rowan's main kitchen, stirring his oatmeal and gazing forlornly at the coffee mug that Scott McDaniels had placed before him.†   (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 was alone and felt rather forlorn' although all about him the folk of Rivendell were gathered.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Colin followed, forlorn.†   (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)
  • The sheds and buildings were empty and forlorn.†   (source)
  • "He a bed, Mummy," said Jamie forlornly.†   (source)
  • Instead of looking at him, I look forlornly at the strappy slippers.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Yelping and whining, he crouched forlorn between the rails, yearning towards us but not moving.†   (source)
  • She sat in the backseat with her head in her hands, forlorn and unmoving, not looking over at him.†   (source)
  • It licked, didn't eat, turned its hungry eyes forlornly to its master.†   (source)
  • On the stoop of her rooming house, she said to him forlornly, "I'm sorry if I let you down ...."†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • He looks like a forlorn puppet jerking woodenly down the aisle.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • He was a small, forlorn figure, oddly relaxed she thought.†   (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)
  • In the preface, Professor Samuel Miles Hopkins (Mrs. 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)
  • "No ..." he said forlornly, "the gators like turtle better than they do us."†   (source)
  • HELEN with her hand free strokes her cheek, suddenly forlorn†   (source)
  • Hesitantly, the outcast waddled forward with blowzy feathers and a forlorn lopsided glance, pecking at the crumbs as she spoke.†   (source)
  • "It is hot within," she said forlornly.†   (source)
  • A pink-silk pajama top fluttered from a palmetto, a forlorn flag to mark the end of a vacation.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • His eyes darted forlornly around, hunting rescue, or escape.†   (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)
  • For his mind was full of forlorn hopes, death-or-glory charges, and last stands.†   (source)
  • Three days downstream they found a small cave, found living in it a forlorn colony of five girls.†   (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)
  • 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 stood forlornly in a corner of the pavilion and ate a sandwich.†   (source)
  • He returned to practicing his forlorn stare out the window.†   (source)
  • "I have slept many eons," the god said forlornly.†   (source)
  • For most of the days, Mariam stayed in bed, feeling adrift and forlorn.†   (source)
  • Well, don't you look like a forlorn lil thangi" he says.†   (source)
  • She walked forlornly to the train station and waited for her papa for hours.†   (source)
  • How many forlorn hours in the arboreal city with only meerkats for company?†   (source)
  • Venkat stared forlornly at his once-clean desk, now strewn with scores of printouts.†   (source)
  • Alice nodded, her face suddenly forlorn.†   (source)
  • Jalil looked at her with a forlorn expression.†   (source)
  • Breaking waves that moonlight and forlorn hope fashioned into illusion?†   (source)
  • He emerged to the forlorn collection of grooms but offered no verdict.†   (source)
  • She sounded so disappointed-and looked so forlorn-Eragon felt guilty for rebuffing her.†   (source)
  • But I'm forlorn because Veronica seems forlorn, and all because of my stupid cowardice.†   (source)
  • "Sadie," he said forlornly, "when you become a parent, you may understand this.†   (source)
  • Julie paused for a long moment, looking almost forlorn.†   (source)
  • And who's that?" she muttered, her voice quiet and forlorn.†   (source)
  • But he had been a forlorn hope at a time when she had needed hope, no matter how forlorn.†   (source)
  • Castle Black seemed a bleak and forlorn place in the pale dawn light.†   (source)
  • She looked forlorn, truly lost in a way that he'd seen only once before.†   (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)
  • Balerion's sails hung limp, drooping forlorn from the masts.†   (source)
  • He could see Frodo below him, a grey forlorn figure splayed against the cliff.†   (source)
  • WHY Anusr ALL MY PATHS lead to the forlorn, unpolished wards of some hospital?†   (source)
  • Looking tired and kind of forlorn, she said, "Well, if you think folks will understand...."†   (source)
  • Ehlers had never forgotten a rape victim telling her forlornly: "If only I had teeth down there.†   (source)
  • RUTH comes in forlornly and pulls off her coat with dejection†   (source)
  • And then, forlornly: "I guess you've always hated me."†   (source)
  • Subway trains still flew by, but it had been a long time since any had stopped at this forlorn spot.†   (source)
  • The Ship was closed up and forlorn, its troupe of mummers no doubt still abed.†   (source)
  • In the plaza before the Great Pyramid, the Meereenese huddled forlorn.†   (source)
  • It will molder; it will get all forlorn; it will break my heart.†   (source)
  • He felt old, forlorn, useless, and his desire to cry was so urgent that he could not speak.†   (source)
  • He looks even more forlorn now that he's unable to lean on her.†   (source)
  • The chaplain shook his head, chewing his clotted dry lower lip forlornly, and walked out.†   (source)
  • I spotted Auk IV lying forlornly in the coal dust beside the railroad track.†   (source)
  • Across the water Edmure Tully stood forlorn atop the tall grey gallows, with a rope around his neck.†   (source)
  • Tom watched her go, then he turned and looked out into the forlorn little backyard.†   (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 thin girl on the grey mare looked small and forlorn in their midst.†   (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)
  • Rufus watched her with awe, Catherine with forlorn worry.†   (source)
  • The pity of it was that it was a forlorn battle.†   (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)
  • A suitcase, a knapsack spilling out clothes and trinkets; an overnight bag, broken open, beside it a forlorn pink toothbrush.†   (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)
  • On that occasion there arrived with him a woman who was so fat that four Indians had to carry her in a rocking chair, and an adolescent mulatto girl with a forlorn look who protected her from the sun with an umbrella.†   (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)
  • And he had no use for their pity, their woebegone looks, all the forlorn headshaking at the wretched spectacle he had become.†   (source)
  • Miss Avocet stayed on, emerging from her torpor now and then to wander the halls, calling out forlornly for her poor abandoned wards before slumping into someone's arms to be taken back to bed.†   (source)
  • From my locker I collected my sneakers, jock strap, and gym pants and then turned away, leaving the door ajar for the first time, forlornly open and abandoned, the locker unlocked.†   (source)
  • "Yes, sir," the boy said quietly; he looked at a loss about how to PAY SOME ATTENTION to his dead brother, and so he stared forlornly at the corner of the flag that was near enough to the open tailgate of the hearse to be occasionally moved by the wind.†   (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)
  • 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)
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