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expressing or causing sadness
- It needs scarcely to be told, with what feelings, on the eve of a Nantucket voyage, I regarded those marble tablets, and by the murky light of that darkened, doleful day read the fate of the whalemen who had gone before me.Chapters 7-9 -- The Chapel; The Pulpit; The Sermon (15% in)
- There's a most doleful and most mocking funeral!Chapters 67-69 -- Cutting In; The Blanket; The Funeral (89% in)
There are no more uses of "doleful" in Moby Dick.
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