| 单词 | forlornness |
| 例句 | But even after the sour of the encounter had faded, forlornness welled up around him. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z A forlornness would descend on her like a shroud then and would lift only when Eid had passed. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z I agreed, even as my voice too-often quivered with a combination of rage and forlornness. The ambassador’s tale: Lessons I learned about success and scandal 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z There’s a forlornness to some of these clowns, and a loneliness. Review: ‘Slava’s Snowshow’ Delivers Flurries of Joy 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Unlike you, dear theatergoer, who are often likely to choke on laughter as you watch them in all their forlornness. ‘Ayckbourn Ensemble,’ 3 Offerings by the British Playwright 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Western Iowa’s unofficial corn corridor is Route 141, an Uberless world of uneven cellphone reception and agrarian infinity, gorgeous in its forlornness. Iowa’s Heartland Beyond the Campaign Trail 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z But at Cannes, amid the aftershocks of the election, he said he was overcome by a profound forlornness. Shake, rattle and Rolls: across America in the shadow of Elvis 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z Cobbled together from found objects — a lamp with a crooked shade, rusty tools, a shopping cart commandeered as an operating table — it imbues the site of an at-home abortion with almost unbearable forlornness. After Decades of Silence, Art About Abortion (Cautiously) Enters the Establishment 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z Teri’s little-girl-lost voice and desire to make everybody happy eventually give way to forlornness when it becomes clear that the party isn’t going well. Review: In ‘The Qualms,’ a Sex Party Winds Up Being All Talk 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z After two hours of music and the forlornness of the Fifth Suite, the Sixth was resplendent, a golden ending. Yo-Yo Ma Wants Bach to Save the World 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z There is a forlornness to the bungalow, which the owner seems to have set up initially as a family home, with its paint chipping in several places. Gay Ugandan asks 'Where will I go?' as secret shelters under threat 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z It is not entertaining to watch an uneven contest, and it hurts to bear witness to such a proud, magnificent sports country reduced to supine forlornness. The Loss of Brazil’s Soccer-Playing Soul 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z Amidst gardens and vineyards, approached by a solitary lane between hedgerows, this now deserted sanctuary has a certain affecting character in its forlornness. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z It showed him more clearly than before her friendlessness, her isolation, her forlornness, and these things moved him. Sophia A Romance 2012-03-18T02:00:22.773Z But in the meantime the sense of forlornness which had attacked her in the chaise returned on her as her anger cooled, and with renewed strength. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z The sweat stood on his brow as he paused under the low arch of the alley-end, tasting the bitter forlornness of the dog banned and set for death in that sunlit city. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z But the return of strength was accompanied by no return of hope; rather, my prime necessity supplied, I felt the forlornness of my position more acutely. Shrewsbury A Romance 2012-03-15T02:00:22.177Z There were just two elements that redeemed the camp from its general aspect of squalor and forlornness. The Motor Girls in the Mountains or, The Gypsy Girl's Secret 2012-03-07T03:00:15.897Z He sat down on the grass, once more yielding to the heavy sense of forlornness, and thinking sadly of his lost companions. With Drake on the Spanish Main 2012-02-20T03:00:17.357Z There was a certain forlornness, too, in his manner which appealed particularly to Pamela. The Truants 2012-01-28T03:00:26.257Z With the return of night came a sense of forlornness and desolation of spirit. The Girl Crusoes A Story of the South Seas 2011-11-03T02:00:16.647Z There was, in fact, a certain forlornness about his attitude which had its effect on her, and it was, perhaps, because of this she had suddenly hardened herself against him. A Damaged Reputation 2011-10-17T02:00:16.117Z He came to see her every other day, and he told her all his symptoms and talked of his loneliness and forlornness until they were both moved to tears. Dr. Lavendar's People 2011-10-13T02:00:52.167Z Such men as Frost, Barlow, and others, your associates, show the forlornness of your cause. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett 2011-10-12T02:00:38.787Z A sense of forlornness that she was unable to control was taking possession of her. A Maid at King Alfred?s Court 2011-09-13T02:00:30.520Z The street lay silent in the August heat, the little patch of grass was brown and parched, there was an aspect of forlornness over everything. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z She leaned rather languidly against the window frame, and her bodily fatigue, and a self-conscious forlornness which she strove habitually to conceal, were quite evident. The Locusts' Years 2011-08-16T02:00:41.777Z And Rotha, in her forlornness and in the gentle mood that had come over her, laid her head down on his shoulder, or rather in his neck, nestling to him. A Letter of Credit 2011-05-20T02:00:40.410Z There were everywhere the signs of the advance of a great city and the pathetic forlornness of the municipal frontier. From the Easy Chair, series 2 2011-04-29T02:00:06.407Z For a moment Dr. Heriot paused, and he and Mildred exchanged glances; the young figure in its forlornness came to them like a mournful revelation; the immobility was superb, the youthful languor pitiful. Heriot's Choice A Tale 2011-04-20T02:00:22.760Z Then we will go together," he said, after a time, in a faint forlornness of voice, "to the utmost reaches of the earth, leaving all behind us, and thinking no more of the past. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z But the forlornness of their body language and voices told another story. Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton hail McLaren's 'outrageous' display 2011-03-27T15:58:06Z A weary sense of loneliness and forlornness came instead, and at last found its safest expression in a good hearty fit of weeping. A Letter of Credit 2011-05-20T02:00:40.410Z One o'clock struck, and then two, and then three; and still I was sitting there in an immense solitude, my whole body aching with weariness, my heart aching with a sense of forlornness and degradation. How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage 2011-03-11T03:00:13.410Z All my forlornness since yesterday is simply the outcome of a mixture of envy and self-pity. Fr?ulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther 2011-02-17T03:00:18.413Z She had a sense of forlornness as she said it, but put it away from her, sitting by her mother's side on the bed, with her arm around her shoulders. Abington Abbey A Novel 2011-01-30T03:00:14.557Z At this authentic cry of forlornness I had great difficulty in not bending over and putting my arms round him,—just to comfort him, just to keep him warm. In the Mountains 2011-01-27T03:00:37.910Z Rotha looked and ran away; and as her feet went painfully clumping along the streets in Antoinette's big boots, some tears of forlornness dropped on the pavement. A Letter of Credit 2011-05-20T02:00:40.410Z A sense of horrible forlornness, feebleness, impotence, and infinite, eternal desolation possessed him. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z Frederick, as he gazed at these people, experienced a sense of forlornness, a feeling of uneasiness. Sentimental Education Vol 1 2011-01-04T03:01:07.467Z I would therefore receive thy son chiefly out of a hope to be comforted, at times, with his music; and partly out of pity for his forlornness. Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico For some reason, however, the work doesn't seem to have quite the feeling the first sketch had—I mean quite the feeling of forlornness and destitution. The Bread Line A Story of a Paper All the same, it gave him a feeling of forlornness to know he was absolutely alone on the prairie. Left on the Prairie But these poor, penniless devils still strive to make ample amends for their physical forlornness, by resolutely reveling in the region of blissful ideals. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z The soft gray tone of age remained, but the bleakness and forlornness were gone; there was about all now a warmth and genial bearing that hinted at mellowed beauty, firelight and cheerful voices within. The Valiants of Virginia Her face suddenly betrayed the most piteous forlornness, and at the same time a touching appeal, as that of a child. Magnhild Dust The train puffed in and puffed out again, with a little maid, stricken with sudden, overwhelming forlornness, in the corner of one of its seats. Harper's Round Table, June 4, 1895 A sense of forlornness oppressed her, and the magnitude of the task she had undertaken weighed upon her spirits. A Daughter of the Union He was a very sober and altered Pierre, and his drenched clothing added to the forlornness of his appearance. A Daughter of the Forest He lost opportunities and failed to create confidence, more than anything through the forlornness of his appearance, and the too obvious simplicity of his bearing. Oliver Goldsmith But both the negro and his little dog seemed to give a new and more dismal aspect to forlornness as they turned into the road and went toward Hillsborough. Free Joe and Other Georgian Sketches All about her seemed elastic; depression, fear, forlornness, were withdrawn. Shirley And over Priscilla’s sober little face—Elliott wasn’t so blinded by her tears that she failed to see it—came the queerest expression of stupefaction and woe and utter forlornness. The Camerons of Highboro A sense of physical cold crept over her as she drove home with Letty—the bodily expression of the unutterable forlornness within. The Benefactress But with a sort of forlornness about them. The House in Town The last sentence was given with an unconscious forlornness of intonation which went to her friend's heart. Opportunities She dressed herself, as usual, carefully, trying so to arrange her hair and attire that nothing of the forlornness she felt at heart should be visible externally. Shirley The sisters did not cry, but Louise cried a good deal in pity for their forlornness, and at last her tears softened them into something like compassion for themselves. The Quality of Mercy In the desolate forlornness of her grief she had not left to her even an illusion. The Shepherd of the North My heart had bidden him follow, Nor had my lips forbidden; and Rome yet glimmered behind me, When my soul yearned towards his from the sudden forlornness of absence. Poems When I hear His existence questioned, I feel as I felt once in your Bedlam when I lost my guide, a ghastly forlornness in a mad world. Dreamers of the Ghetto He was anxious to get on, to reach his Camberton rooms, where the Sunday forlornness was peace after this swinish atmosphere. The Man Who Wins A feeling of change and forlornness weighed upon his spirit. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 There was something in her attitude that struck Margaret—an air of deep dejection, of utter forlornness, that went to her heart. Wee Wifie Its forlornness had been lost upon Unziar, who had drawn but one merciless conclusion from the little scene. A Modern Mercenary Somehow, the despair and the forlornness had gone out of Dolly's heart. The End of a Coil He found the hangings covered with dust; and, while dining all alone, Frederick was seized with a strange feeling of forlornness; then his thoughts reverted to Mademoiselle Roque. Sentimental Education, Volume II The History of a Young Man A sense of desolation, a forlornness greater than she had ever known in all her short life descended upon her. Across the Mesa They would have shuddered at the dust-windrowed street, the litter of refuse, the dismal lonesomeness, the forlornness, the utter isolation, the desolation. 'Firebrand' Trevison One o'clock struck, and then two, and then three, and still I was sitting there in an immense solitude, my whole body aching with weariness, my heart aching with a sense of forlornness and degradation. Stories of Authors, British and American It was too much; and with a sort of wailing cry, which in its forlornness reached and wrung even Mr. Copley's nerves, she broke into a terrible passion of weeping. The End of a Coil The fact is," she said, gravely, "that with all my loneliness and poverty and general forlornness, I have had a different bringing up from any of you. The Chautauqua Girls At Home Louisa was so oppressed by the forlornness of her situation that she felt none of that reluctance to going amongst strangers, so usual with children of her age. A Description of Millenium Hall And the Country Adjacent Together with the Characters of the Inhabitants and Such Historical Anecdotes and Reflections As May Excite in the Reader Proper Sentiments of Humanity, and Lead the Mind to the Love of Virtue It is reported that unmarried ladies such as Miss Baker generally regret the forlornness of their own condition. The Bertrams It is needless to add, that a deep sense of forlornness and insecurity was the result of these reflections. Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities. The old sense of forlornness, of being alone and uncared for, returned to her. Little Lost Sister A sudden wave of forlornness swept over Nosey. A Tall Ship On Other Naval Occasions He was obsessed by the solitary idea of his own forlornness. The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel The heart depressed by drudgery, hardship, forlornness, craves not merely moral guidance but exhilaration and ecstacy. The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement No herding in one common community of forlornness; each small apartment or establishment is perfect in its way, with its own entrance, and its own little kitchen and sleeping room. The Gold of Chickaree But Anne, lonely in her new quarters, had appreciated the forlornness of the old drake and had adopted him. Mistress Anne When I got into an empty carriage I was conscious of some sense of forlornness. Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales The girl begins singing a few words in an ordinary tone, when her voice gradually drops to the diminuendo, whilst her slow gesticulations and the declining vigour of the music together express her forlornness. The Philippine Islands The Venetian blind, half drawn up, was five or six inches higher one side than the other, and a vase of faded flowers added to the forlornness of the picture. A Master Of Craft But a touch to the sorrow, and a touch to the need, and a touch to the forlornness,that is what I meant.' The Gold of Chickaree Thus when fascination and forlornness are at equal discount, when powers and penuries go down together, and common and uncommon sense fail alike, to what natural feeling shall one hope to appeal? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 Cecily had nothing to say; she leant back in a limp forlornness while Mina expatiated on this doleful text. Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House She did not know why, but all at once a terrible feeling of utter forlornness seized her. North of Fifty-Three But with it died the hope which is inherent in revolt; in proportion as she grew more calm the forlornness of her situation rose more clearly before her. The Long Night She had cared for young mothers before, and that she should be called to watch over Robin, whose child forlornness she had rescued, filled her heart with a glowing. Robin Poor Fleda, though with a very sorrowful heart, kept her resolutions, and for very forlornness and weariness, slept away a great part of the next day. Queechy, Volume II She had clung to his arm with a tragic forlornness that seemed to leave her very wan and helpless. Never-Fail Blake Hazel was in the grip of utter forlornness, moody, wishful to cry. North of Fifty-Three "Oh, he's dead," said Hilbrook, and the minister's heart smote him with a pity for the survivor's forlornness which the old man's apathetic tone had scarcely invited. A Pair of Patient Lovers Some were on foot, bearing in their countenances the tokens of their recent terror, and filled with mournful reflections on the forlornness of their state. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 He then feels his nothingness, his forlornness, his insufficiency, his dependence, his weakness, his emptiness. Pascal's Pensées He had fallen easy prey then to the black shadows of forlornness. The Hidden Places There was no sentry, and a queer air of forlornness seemed to pervade. The Luck of Thirteen Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia I felt his forlornness, and I strongly wished to help him. A Pair of Patient Lovers I mused incessantly on the forlornness of my condition. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 When the car had carried Miss Burns off into the stream of New York traffic, Frederick, strangely enough, had a fleeting sense of forlornness, to him a novel sensation. Atlantis Some recent duties of Mrs. Betts's service had given her, on occasion, an authoritative manner, and she was impelled to use it when she witnessed the forlornness of her young lady. The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax Then came over her the feeling of forlornness, of loneliness, well and thoroughly realized; with the single gleam of better things that sprung from the promise her heart had embraced that day. Hills of the Shatemuc One Sunday night he appealed to his father, with many tears, on the subject, not of his employment, which he seems to have accepted at the time manfully, but of his forlornness and isolation. Life of Charles Dickens The sufferer showed no sign of requiring or wishing anything more, and while his forlornness troubled me, I did not see that I could be of any service to him. Carette of Sark There was an air of forlornness about the house which hurt him. Poor Man's Rock But it was neither its academic air nor its ecclesiastical forlornness, its famous links nor venerable ruins of cloister and cathedral that attracted me at that time. The Measure of a Man From the garden, which lay at the side and behind it, it showed all of its forlornness and few of its possibilities. Mrs. Red Pepper The deep-set windows of the brick wing, like the sunken eyes of an old woman, peered at the visitor with dusky forlornness. Idolatry A Romance Drenched through, blown about, breathless, panting, almost scared at the dreary forlornness of the deserted streets, the adventurous little damsel reached the place of tryst. The Unseen Bridgegroom or, Wedded For a Week The sweat stood on his brow as he paused under the low arch of the alley-end, tasting the bitter forlornness of the dog banned and set for death in that sunlit city. Count Hannibal A Romance of the Court of France In spite—or perhaps in consequence—of his abasement, forlornness, and unworthiness, he showed a dignity and impressiveness which were novel in him. Bressant Struck with the man's apparent wistfulness for company, and moved by a fellow feeling of forlornness, Philip accepted; and Cornelius, always acquiescent, had not the ill grace to refuse. Philip Winwood A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American Captain in the War of Independence; Embracing Events that Occurred between and during the Years 1763 and 1786, in New York and London: written by His Enemy in War, Herbert Russell, Lieutenant in the Loyalist Forces. Such utter forlornness is never a welcome sight. Out To Win The Story of America in France She looked rather small and pinched—there was even a hint of forlornness about her. The Keeper of the Door Never again should his pinkie finger go through that warm hole, and at the thought a sense of his forlornness choked him and he cried. Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood It struck me, at the time, by its forlornness, as part of an appeal to her. The Inheritors Hugh stirred feebly in the dark of a great forlornness and loneliness. Red Pottage Finding me stranded, they would doubtless take pity upon my forlornness, and offer me a lift in their car, down to the Riviera. The Princess Passes Wordsworth had averted his ken from half of human fate; Keats and Shelley turned from the forlornness of human society as it was to the transfigured humanity of myth. Robert Browning Their lineaments and their gait show forth a ghastly forlornness that excites pity and despair. The Reconstructed School They would chase away this feeling of forlornness, of being an alien. Hocken and Hunken The first sensation was one of horrible emptiness, forlornness. Marcella They loved to be near one another that their forlornness might pain them less. A Love Episode But he thought he detected in her tone a restlessness, a forlornness, which pained him. Lady Connie He had a fine sense of humour, and he would have considered it a baseness to laugh at the poor thing, with its pretence of passion, trying to screen its forlornness. The Bed-Book of Happiness It testified to the girl's secret sense of forlornness, to her natural hunger for the ties and relationships other girls possessed in such abundance. The Testing of Diana Mallory For Raeburn on this particular afternoon there was a curious forlornness in the dry and tainted air. Marcella Through the wall Father Sisoy was snoring in the next room, and his aged snore had a sound that suggested loneliness, forlornness, even vagrancy. The Bishop and Other Stories Then, all in a moment, a bitter forlornness overcame her. Lady Connie There was a forlornness, moreover, in her appealing attitude. Running Water Her utter forlornness pierced him to the heart. The Way of an Eagle She clung to his hand for an instant, caught by an odd feeling of forlornness. The Top of the World Its ugliness and forlornness can be matched in the factory section of almost any large city. What eight million women want Notice how the details which have been selected emphasize the "impression of forlornness." Composition-Rhetoric Weary or benumbed, or sick with pure forlornness and despair, she had drooped down and showed no sign of life. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 52, February, 1862 It was the most dreadful thing that I saw at the front, surpassing the forlornness of any destroyed village whatsoever. Over There War Scenes on the Western Front Kelly could be quite irresistible when he chose, and he had evidently made up his mind to comfort the girl's forlornness so far as in him lay. The Top of the World All their good women have the instinctive fidelity of a dog, and a superhuman patience and devotion, a "gentle forlornness" under wrongs, which is painted with an almost feminine tenderness. From Chaucer to Tennyson It is evident in Howells's description of the Battery that the purpose was the creating of an impression of forlornness, and that the author kept this purpose in mind when choosing the details. Composition-Rhetoric A forlornness came over her, a despair such as she had never experienced even in that dreadful time after the wreck when she realized she had forgotten everything. Wild Wings A Romance of Youth There was a steaming mist in all the hollows, and it had roamed in its forlornness up the hill, like an evil spirit, seeking rest and finding none. A Tale of Two Cities Anyway, it is only a trifling matter, and I am almost ashamed to put it down here in writing—it seems to set the forlornness of our situation in such a miserably vivid light. The Woman in White On the contrary, who her mother was, and how she came to die in that forlornness, were questions that often pressed on Eppie's mind. Silas Marner To anger succeeded a mood of desperate forlornness. The Price She Paid But there were no tears in her eyes, no forlornness in her voice. The Grain of Dust He went up to Miss Herrick, where she stood receiving with her mother and two of the other girls, and allowed them to chaff him on his forlornness. Moran of the Lady Letty Newman only half understood it, but it amused him, and the old man's decent forlornness appealed to his democratic instincts. The American The garden hangs in the air, and you ramble from terrace to terrace and wonder how it keeps from slipping down, in full consummation of its bereaved forlornness, into the nakedly romantic gorge beneath. Roderick Hudson She seemed to be breathlessly struggling with the wind as she sped onward, and in her whole aspect there was an indescribable forlornness and terror. The Case of Richard Meynell And between the edge of the door frame and his client's automobile-fattened and carefully dressed body, he caught a glimpse of the "poor little forlornness" who chanced to be crossing the outer office. The Grain of Dust And the forlornness of her tone made him almost forget that he had half promised to join a party of Lady St. Craye's. The Incomplete Amorist There is no situation in which we stand in greater need of sympathy and consolation, than in those moments of forlornness and desertion to which the poor Matilda imagines herself reduced. Italian Letters, Vols. I and II The History of the Count de St. Julian One sad old woman, who sits near the Quattro Fontane, and says her prayers and rattles her box, always touches my heart, there is such an air of forlornness and sweetness about her. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 Gustave divined that it was for very forlornness she lingered there, shrinking from some difficult encounter that lay before her. Charlotte's Inheritance If a moment of forlornness and despair fell to his lot, he wandered upon the heath without his Imogen, and he climbed the upright precipice without her harmonious voice to cheer and to animate him. Imogen A Pastoral Romance Poor Fleda, though with a very sorrowful heart, kept her resolutions, and for very forlornness and weariness slept away a great part of the next day. Queechy The situation was as Oriental as the scene,—heartless arbitrary insolence on the part of my employers; homelessness, forlornness, helplessness, mortification, indignation, on mine. The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok The longer I resided among this race of men, the melancholy and forlornness of my feelings declined. Jane Talbot When he forgot his misery at the hospital, he thought of the forlornness of the abandoned baby, and when he put that aside his own needs overwhelmed him again. Selected Polish Tales I am conscious to a kind of complex sentiment of distress and forlornness that cannot be perfectly portrayed by words; but I must do as well as I can. Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker She hurried to the rear deck to get a last look, sentimental forlornness at leaving her husband coming over her afresh. Together Mrs. B—— welcomed us with a pleasant smile to her little heaven of home across the river, and by the simplicity and gentleness of her manners dispelled in a measure my feeling of forlornness. The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok In all this rusty forlornness lurked a visible assurance of our friend's having known better days. A Passionate Pilgrim As he sat there in the windy darkness, hour after hour, open-mouthed and open-eyed, he was steeped in terror—terror of the future, of its forlornness, of his own feebleness, of death. The History of David Grieve On Van's part it arose from forlornness mingled with a half formulated belief that he must do something to express his thankfulness that he himself had escaped from the fate that had overtaken the child. The Story of Sugar Her complete forlornness was stamped upon his brain. Coningsby He walked about the place, and into the barn, taking in the forlornness and shabbiness; and then he went up into the room over the shed, where he used to study and write. The Minister's Charge And still I was sitting there in the midst of an immense solitude, my whole body aching with weariness, my heart aching with a sense of forlornness and degradation. Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools Starting, I turned to find the landlord at my elbow and immediately my forlornness grew intensified. Peregrine's Progress No beautiful death of well-beloved men hath such a glory of forlornness. The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories The forlornness of the bookcase gave a stricken air to the whole room. Hilda Lessways It still rained incessantly, and the forlornness of the situation was no wise relieved by the distant booming of guns, and the sucking sound of the wheels in the mud. Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 37, December 10, 1870 No wonder that, overcome by the sense of her utter forlornness, she hid her face with her fettered hands and wept in despair. Lost in the Backwoods Tender thoughtfulness of her poor husband's martial honor outlived her power to inspire him again to her heroism, and made her grand in the forlornness of her sorrow. Woman on the American Frontier A Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures, Privations, Captivities, Trials, and Noble Lives and Deaths of the "Pioneer Mothers of the Republic" We're too good fellows, as you wished we should be, to pretend to any forlornness over a parting of this kind. The Earth Trembled In the commercial triumph she lost the sense of the tragic forlornness of boarding-house existence, as it had struck her on the day of her arrival. Hilda Lessways A cart rumbled past, and across the grey street a dingy black cat, moving furtively along the pavement, gave an additional touch of forlornness to the scene. The Little Nugget Her reply began with a hint of forlornness that vanished with her smile, as she warned: "You will play ducks and drakes with the house-boys' names." The Little Lady of the Big House Sara felt the stricture of forlornness and fear about her heart loosen suddenly at sight of her. Sara, a Princess A sense of forlornness, of insignificance, and of terror seized upon his faculties. Stories by English Authors: Ireland Mrs. Brewster's kindly heart was touched by the utter forlornness expressed in the youth's face when he heard how far away the surveyor's camp was located, so she addressed him directly. Polly of Pebbly Pit Often I could cry for pity of our forlornness, and of the pathos of our endeavours to comfort ourselves. The Solitary Summer All this forlornness shed a charm across the picture that wrought on the spectator's mind with an influence like that of some enchanting poem, filling his soul with dreamy fancies. Farewell It was closed and desolate looking, and she sighed as she compared its old bright spotless comfort, with its present empty forlornness. The Maid of Maiden Lane Yet, despite its forlornness and desolation, despite the dilapidation of broken door and fallen chimney, there was something in the air of the place that drew me strangely. The Broad Highway It had an air of ludicrous forlornness, with its damaged paint and its tied-up harness. The Path of a Star And in spite of the forlornness of the place, the five young people managed to have a pretty good time. Two Boys and a Fortune, or, the Tyler Will The commodore was struggling to suppress his laughter, which had been excited by the forlornness of the figure before him. The Life and Adventures of Maj. Roger Sherman Potter Perhaps it was his listlessness or the dreamy unconcern with which he watched the dancers; or it may have been the utter forlornness of his expression. The Blind Spot Such a conversation, so lacking in his old definite briskness where their holidays were concerned, would daunt Rachael with a sense of utter forlornness. The Heart of Rachael There is a simplicity-a forlornness, about this little group, which attracts our attention, excites our sympathies, unbends our curiosity: we would relieve the burden it labours under. Our World, Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter The house had that strange air of forlornness which seems to proclaim sorrow within. Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland He was soon wet to the skin, and the great rain-drops that fell from his broad-brimmed hat added to the forlornness of his condition. The Life and Adventures of Maj. Roger Sherman Potter Though one had a pity for his forlornness, there was still an admiration. The Blind Spot Taxes went up, sidewalks crumbled back into the grass again, the four or five unfenced little wooden houses that were erected and occupied added to the general effect of forlornness. Martie, the Unconquered Nevertheless, as the afternoon advanced a strange new sense of insecurity, unhappiness and forlornness crept increasingly upon him. Jeremy "I don't know more than half the population of New England," said Dan, with apparent levity, but real forlornness. April Hopes In short the forlornness pervading each object that met his eye, told how hard had been the struggle for bread. The Life and Adventures of Maj. Roger Sherman Potter "There speaks the truly rural mind," smiled Howard at his mother, who was looking up at him through her glasses with a pathetic forlornness which sobered him again. Main-Travelled Roads But a feeling of hesitation and forlornness rising, he knew not whence, made him pause irresolute before the window. The Country House And even then he half smiled to himself at the forlornness of the hope that he should ever need a standing place again. We Two, a novel The place had become bleak and tragic and Mr. Lovel felt the forlornness in his bones. The Path of the King There was an utter forlornness, an unspeakable misery in his face as he spoke these words, which gave me back my self-possession by the simple process of first moving me to pity. The Queen of Hearts Nancy's aching sympathy for the poor little forlornness beside her turned suddenly into shocked terror. Pollyanna Then Mr. Edson, who had good abilities, in his forlornness and despair, threw them all to the winds. Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy He tried to cheer Wolf out of his sad-eyed forlornness, and failed. Heritage of the Desert “Yes,” responded Abbot; “if she were a nice, pretty child, one might compassionate her forlornness; but one really cannot care for such a little toad as that.” Jane Eyre My grief and forlornness have made a strange alteration in my former feelings about his coming back. The Queen of Hearts |
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