dolorously

• “A pad piziness," the boat-steerer reiterated, dolorously, in the silence which followed.”

  The Lost Poacher

• “She nodded dolorously and wrote something on the form.”

  Simon & Schuster: Shortcut Man

• “Mrglik said dolorously, “We could have such chase.””

  Simon & Schuster: Agent Q, or The Smell Of Danger!

• “Somewhere up in the village, a donkey creaked dolorously into voice.”

  Simon & Schuster: Wildwood

• “The story, set in Washington, D.C., in 1963, is told through the exploits of a 13-year-old prep-school student, Adam Stafford; he's played, dolorously, by Cameron Bright.”

  The Wall Street Journal: 'Crossing Over': Melting-Pot Dregs

• “Mr. Dubster soon came again, saying, somewhat dolorously, 'I have looked high and low for my glove, but I am no nearer.”

  Camilla

• “He then kept an unremitting watch from one window to another, for some passenger from whom he could claim aid; but, much as he had boasted of the numbers perpetually in sight, he now dolorously confessed, that, sometimes, not a soul came near the place for half a day together: 'And, as to my workmen,' continued he, 'the deuce can't make 'em hear if once they begin their knocking and hammering.”

  Camilla

• “It pierced the ears with a shower of tiny lances; it made the heart beat jubilantly — and checked it dolorously.”

  The Moon Pool

• “Little phrases which indicated dolorously the subject of his preoccupation often escaped him in the street:”

  New Grub Street

• “The puerile media kewl kidz will be kept entertained and busy until November with meritless scandals and hilarious GOP manufactured putdowns of the hapless Dems while Ed Gillespie clutches his Mikimoto pearls and moans dolorously about the barbarity of Democratic "political hate speech.”

  Hullabaloo

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