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  • VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'War Casualties: Doleful Arrivals Open to Public'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'For years, the ritual of welcoming the war dead back to U.S. soil at Dover has been performed in private by the various services.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: War Casualties: Doleful Arrivals Open to Public 2009

  • But the nation, not given to counting presidential days, regarded the period simply as the Long Doleful Spring that had followed the Terrible Secession Winter.

    'In The Van Of History' 2008

  • Doleful Democrats bemoaned the irony: At a time when Republicans should be back on their heels because of chaos abroad and President Bush's unpopularity, the Democrats 'rejection of a sensible, moralistic centrist has handed the GOP a weapon that could have vast ramifications for both the midterm elections of' 06 and the big dance of '08.

    Lamonterrorism 2006

  • WB's _Supernatural_ premiere was an object lesson in "you should have listened to English folk ballads when growing up": a Doleful Ghost may get involved.

    stacking, scorpions, shows, relocated deathjazz badger 2005

  • So far, three of the four episodes have featured a Doleful Ghost.

    zombies, film news, catchup badger 2005

  • Doleful as an abandoned child, he wondered if any of his teachers missed him.

    Ship Of Magic Hobb, Robin 1998

  • Doleful tidings from Younghusband had caused Withers to summon his lieutenants to this council of war.

    Murder Without Icing Lathen, Emma, pseud 1972

  • It was 'bout 'Hark from de Tombs a Doleful Sound.'

    Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2 Work Projects Administration

  • "We have to hold Duncan Post and Doleful Post at all costs," he added.

    Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols

  • E.J.M. CHAPTER I. Doleful were the accounts received from time to time of Louis M.rtimer's life with his tutor at Dashwood Rectory; and, if implicit credence might be yielded to them, it would be supposed that no poor mortal was ever so persecuted by Latin verses, early rising, and difficult problems, as our hero.

    Louis' School Days A Story for Boys

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