forlornness

• 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
• And when I see how little there is to impede and bewilder us, I cannot but accept,—should it be for many years,—the forlornness, the want of fit expression, the darkness as to what is to be expressed, even that characterize our time But I do not, therefore, as some of our friends do, believe that it will always be so, and that the church is tottering to its grave, never to rise again. —  Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Vol. II
• ( "Elevator"), down tempo forlornness ( "Hush Hush"), and the intergalactic nymph-like butter pop of "Love The Way You Love Me." —  IGN Music
• Miss Frost also cried as if her heart would break, catching her indrawn breath with a strange sound of anguish, forlornness, the terrible crying of a woman with a loving heart, whose heart has never been able to relax. —  The Lost Girl
• 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

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