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sad, hopeless, pitiful and/or abandoned
- Wind frolicked the skirt and made the scarecrow sway-made it seem a creature forlornly dancing in the cold December field.2 — Persons Unknown (97% in)
- And yet it was true that the farm nowadays made him uneasy: the locked house, Nancy's horse forlornly waiting in a field, the odor of windfall apples rotting under the apple trees, and the absence of voices-Kenyon calling Nancy to the telephone, Herb whistling, his glad "Good morning, Paul.2 — Persons Unknown (56% in)
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