All 9 Uses
doleful
in
Uncle Tom's Cabin
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- Instantly the flexible limbs of the child assumed the appearance of deformity and distortion, as, with his back humped up, and his master's stick in his hand, he hobbled about the room, his childish face drawn into a doleful pucker, and spitting from right to left, in imitation of an old man.†
Chpt 1.1doleful = expressing or causing sadness
- The pensive, reflective tone in which this was spoken appeared to amuse Andy prodigiously, and he drew a little behind, and shook so as apparently to run a great risk of failing off his horse, while Sam's face was immovably composed into the most doleful gravity.†
Chpt 1.7
- "This yer young-un business makes lots of trouble in the trade," said Haley, dolefully.†
Chpt 1.8 *dolefully = in a manner that is full of sadness
- Now, there is no more use in making believe be angry with a negro than with a child; both instinctively see the true state of the case, through all attempts to affect the contrary; and Sam was in no wise disheartened by this rebuke, though he assumed an air of doleful gravity, and stood with the corners of his mouth lowered in most penitential style.†
Chpt 1.8doleful = expressing or causing sadness
- The expression of her face was an odd mixture of shrewdness and cunning, over which was oddly drawn, like a kind of veil, an expression of the most doleful gravity and solemnity.†
Chpt 2.20
- The "young un" alluded to heard all these comments with the subdued and doleful air which seemed habitual to her, only scanning, with a keen and furtive glance of her flickering eyes, the ornaments which Jane wore in her ears.†
Chpt 2.20
- It was a wild, forsaken road, now winding through dreary pine barrens, where the wind whispered mournfully, and now over log causeways, through long cypress swamps, the doleful trees rising out of the slimy, spongy ground, hung with long wreaths of funeral black moss, while ever and anon the loathsome form of the mocassin snake might be seen sliding among broken stumps and shattered branches that lay here and there, rotting in the water.†
Chpt 2.32
- —and the woman laughed a wild and doleful laugh, that rung, with a strange, supernatural sound, through the old ruined shed.†
Chpt 2.34
- In a knot-hole of the garret, that had opened, she had inserted the neck of an old bottle, in such a manner that when there was the least wind, most doleful and lugubrious wailing sounds proceeded from it, which, in a high wind, increased to a perfect shriek, such as to credulous and superstitious ears might easily seem to be that of horror and despair.†
Chpt 2.39
Definitions:
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(1)
(doleful) expressing or causing sadness
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)