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expressing or causing sadness
- For Boris, Julie played most doleful nocturnes on her harp.Book Eight — 1811-12 (23% in)
- She assumed her dolefully submissive manner and said to her husband: "Listen to me, Count, you have managed matters so that we are getting nothing for the house, and now you wish to throw away all our—all the children's property!Book Eleven — 1812 (35% in)
There are no more uses of "doleful" in War and Peace.
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