desolée

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I am _desolée_ at this apparent want of courtesy, but I am sure you see the necessity. "

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  • I am _desolée_ at this apparent want of courtesy, but I am sure you see the necessity. " —  Fairy Fingers A Novel
  • '_Mon cher Alfred -- Figure-toi comme je suis desolée_ --' —  England, My England
  • She sent her love to me, and assured me she was very sorry, _desolée_, that she could not delay, to pay me a visit. —  The Late Miss Hollingford
  • "I am _desolée_ to be obliged to inform madame that Madame de Fleury is at this moment so much absorbed by her toilet that I fear I shall have no opportunity of making known the honor of madame's visit. —  Fairy Fingers A Novel
  • Dans la trêve desolée de cette matinée, ces hommes qui avaient été tenaillés par la fatigue, fouettés par la pluie, bouleversés par toute une nuit de tonnerre, ces rescapés des volcans et de l'inondation entrevoyaient —  Counter-Attack and Other Poems
 

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