dolours

Then said they to him, “How is it with thee, O King, and how deemest thou for thyself of these thy dolours?”

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

“O my brother, recite me some verses: perchance it may broaden my breast and dispel my dolours and quench the fire flaming in my heart.”

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Replied the other, “I know all about thee and I know that also whereby Allah will dispel thy dolours.”

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

O thou heart-whole and free from dole and dolours I endure,

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

But, for all this, thou shalt have as many dolours for thy daughters as thou canst tell in a year.

King Lear 2004

Well has it been said that whosoever prays to her with faith and constancy can never be lost or cast away: and fitly is she too a haven of refuge for the afflicted because of the seven dolours which transpierced her own heart.

Ulysses 2003

Nan's uncle, moving with hopeless and dragging steps about the sides of Maam hill, ruminating constantly on nature's caprice with sheep and crop, man's injustice, the poverty of barns, the discomforts of seasons, nourishing his sour self on reflections upon all life's dolours, would be coming after that for days upon the girl and Gilian gathering berries or on some such childish diversion in the woods behind the river.

Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Neil Munro

Do you think this little wee wife with her hair getting grey -- not so grey either, though -- was always in old maid dolours in her garret thinking of hoasts and headaches and cures for them, and her brothers 'slippers and her own rheumatics on rainy days?

Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Neil Munro

Colin again in the dolours, poor company for them that would harbour any delusion of youth.

Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Neil Munro

“Well then my Lord, (quoth the Duchesse) sithens it pleaseth you not, that I renewe my dolours past, which have taken ende by your meane, I shall humbly beseche you to excuse mee, if this daye I haue not geuen you that honour and good entertainement whiche you deserued: assuring you that before you shall departe this countrey, I wyll make you amendes according vnto your own discretion.”

The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter