Both Uses of
doleful
in
Moby Dick
- 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.†
Chpt 7-9 *
- There's a most doleful and most mocking funeral!†
Chpt 67-69
Definition:
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(doleful) expressing or causing sadness