All 3 Uses of
forlorn
in
Bartleby, the Scrivener: a Story of Wall Street
- I can see that figure now—pallidly neat, pitiably respectable, incurably forlorn!†
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- This building too, which of week-days hums with industry and life, at nightfall echoes with sheer vacancy, and all through Sunday is forlorn.†
- My first emotions had been those of pure melancholy and sincerest pity; but just in proportion as the forlornness of Bartleby grew and grew to my imagination, did that same melancholy merge into fear, that pity into repulsion.†
Definition:
sad, hopeless, pitiful and/or abandoned