The Only Use of
forlorn
in
Island of the Blue Dolphins
- I kept thinking over and over as I swam how I would punish Ramo when I reached the shore, yet when I felt the sand under my feet and saw him standing at the edge of the waves, holding his fishing spear and looking so forlorn, I forgot all those things I planned to do.†
p. 38.7
Definition:
sad, hopeless, pitiful and/or abandoned