lorn

• “Dickens made Mrs. Gummidge very funny; but the Gummidge of real life is not merely a limp, "lorn" creature -- she is a woman who began by being unhealthily vain, and ends by being venomously malignant.”

  Side Lights

• “And thou, lorn Wisdom's child, where'er thou art —”

  The Age Reviewed

• “Perhaps purchasing a gas or electric heater may deter the love lorn bucks in his area, if he doesn't take up huntin '.”

  10-Point Buck Attacks Upstate New York Man

• “Wandering about like love-lorn Wildebeest and groping the female (and male) staff”

  Violence in the workplace « Mudpuddle

• “I'm an angst-filled, love-lorn, chick on the edge of heterosexual desperation, but no matter how hard I try, I can't ever imagine partaking in vagina pie.”

  The Huffington Post: I Did Not Have Sexual Relations With That Woman: Reasons A-E Why I Didn't Either

• “I dug their love-lorn laced lyrics and the beats were amazing.”

  The Huffington Post: Alyssa Miele: Neon Indian, Miniature Tigers, Nite Jewel, the Dom and Prefuse 73 Rock Governor's Island

• “Blessed with a backstory that directly invokes Vlad the Impaler, Oldman plays Dracula as a love-lorn mortal who declares war on God, thereby achieving damned immortality.”

  The Guardian: The 10 best screen vampires

• “Wilmington, N.C. I'm hanging out, waiting to hear John McCain deliver his latest new stump speech -- the text seems less toxic than recent efforts -- but I couldn't let Bill Kristol's latest advice to the vote-lorn column pass.”

  Kristol Blue Deflation - Swampland - TIME.com

• “--- In his role as a guardian of the innocent, Geralt, the witcher from Rivia, meets incestuous kings with undead daughters, vengeful djinns, rancorous maidens, shrieking harpies, love-lorn vampires and despondent ghouls.”

  Andrzej Sapkowski - The Last Wish (Book Review)

• “The tops of buildings tremble like children lorn and lost.”

  NPR: The Low Anthem: Shimmering Americana

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