woebegone

• “Are you going to arrest me?” She gazed around, woebegone, at her walls, at her furniture, her house from which she thought she would now be parted. —  Maigret Takes A Room - Georges Simenon - 65
• In short, so helpless and woebegone was his plight, that his party proceeded on their march without him; the captain promised to bring him on in safety in the after part of the day As soon as this party had moved off, Captain Bonneville's men proceeded to construct and fill their cache; and just as it was completed the party of Wyeth was descried at a distance. —  The Adventures of Captain Bonneville
• His pallid face was smudged, his hair stringy, his boots cracked, and his expression woebegone. —  FSF,June2005
• Do you suppose I can ever catch him I'll help," quickly volunteered Tabitha, trying hard to suppress her mirth, so meek and woebegone was the tumbled figure standing in the roadway; and with a nimble spring she landed beside him, tethering her burro to a yucca, growing close at hand. —  Tabitha's Vacation
• There we lay three days, with all anchors over the side, waiting in comfortable security for the gale to blow out; and 'twas at dusk of the third day that we were hailed from the coast rocks by that ill-starred young castaway of the name of Docks whose tale precipitated the final catastrophe in the life of Jagger of Wayfarer's Tickle He was only a lad, but, doubtless, rated a man; and he was now sadly woebegone--starved, shivering, bruised by the rocks and breaking water from which he had escaped. —  Doctor Luke of the Labrador

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