dolence

For love they weep with beads cornelian-like * And growth of distance greater dolence grows:

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

On June 26th, the same year, I his Lordship embarked at Greenwich for Holland, being appointed her Majesty's envoy ex - traordinary and plenipotentiary, to make the compliments of con - dolence on the death of the Emperor Leopold, as also of congra - tulation to his successor the Emperor Joseph; and to endeavour, by the Queen's mediation, to compose the differences between his Imperial Majesty and his subjects in Hungary.

Peerage of England, genealogical, biographical, and historical Collins, Arthur, 1690?-1760 1812

In - dolence, ill-humor, want ofXdesire to please, va - ried only by pride and selfishness, were, in our best years, nrty lot; — the woman had no heart: —

The Countess and Gertrude; Or, Modes of Discipline 1812

Smith, by pride, or caprice, or in - dolence, or bafhfulnefs, neglefted to attend him, though dbubtlefs warned and prefTed by his friends, and at laft miffed his reward by not going to folicit it.

The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets 1787

We mean not that in - dolence, and love of eafe make no part of the character idles of the prefent age; but rather that they take a different form than that un - der which they appear in the performance before us.

The Monthly Review 1780

My Limbs, alas! never inured to Service, and before 'always indulged in the Luxury of In - dolence, could not fubmit to fuch toilfome Em - jdoyment!

Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces. ... 1774

If this statement were correct, it would not be proper; on the contrary, it would be improper to vote the address Of the honourable baronet i but if the queen or the royal consort had in any instance been waited on with aft address of con - dolence on the death of a member of the royal family, he thought it was now their duty to carry such an address to the Princess of Wales.

The Parliamentary Register: Or an Impartial Report of the Debates that Have Occured in the Two ... 1813

'' Not at all; "faid I, '' I only experience the natural effect of the drefs you have put o-n me, which invites to in - dolence, and produces a fort of apathy, that already begins to gam upon me; and if you perfift in making me wear it, I fliall very foon be on a level with every thing;

Memories of the Baron de Tott, on the Turks and the Tartars 1785