All 5 Uses of
forlorn
in
Cry, the Beloved Country
- About you there is grass and bracken and you may hear the forlorn crying of the titihoya, one of the birds of the veld.†
Chpt 1.1 *
- And he lifted her hands with his other, and felt the scars of her meaningless duties about this forlorn house.†
Chpt 1.16
- About you there is grass and bracken, and the forlorn crying of the titihoya, one of the birds of the veld.†
Chpt 2.18
- A dirty old wood-and-iron church, patched and forlorn, and a dirty old parson, in a barren valley where the grass hardly grew.†
Chpt 2.19
- The titihoya wakes from sleep, and goes about its work of forlorn crying.†
Chpt 3.36
Definition:
sad, hopeless, pitiful and/or abandoned