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forlorn
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Cry, the Beloved Country
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- 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
Definitions:
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(1)
(forlorn) sad, hopeless, pitiful and/or abandoned
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)