Lexicographical Neighbors of Dolefullest
Literary usage of Dolefullest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Le Morte D'Arthur by Thomas Malory (1908)
"... and set him down by the brink of the fountain; and there he made great languor
and dole, and made the dolefullest complaint of love that ever man heard; ..."
2. The Cambridge History of American Literature by William Peterfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart Pratt Sherman, Carl Van Doren (1917)
"The hours following her capture may well have been the dolefullest night that
ever my eyes saw. Oh the roaring, and singing, and dancing, and yelling of ..."
3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1857)
"... her breast up.till a thorn, And then sang the dolefullest ditty, That to hear
it was great pity. That to hear her so complain Scarce I could from tears ..."
4. Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy by Sir Edward Burnett Tylor (1891)
"... and die the other death where there is nothing left, and this is to them the
dolefullest thing of all.1 Thus the Fijians tell of the fight which the ..."
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