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- adjective rare
sorrowful
Etymologies
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Examples
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Tancredo (6th) is the other sorryful soul who holds the district in the rich southern Denver suburbs.
Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Novak: GOP Could Lose Five Or More Senate Seats Next Year 2009
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Tancredo (6th) is the other sorryful soul who holds the district in the rich southern Denver suburbs.
Novak: GOP Could Lose Five Or More Senate Seats Next Year 2009
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Tancredo (6th) is the other sorryful soul who holds the district in the rich southern Denver suburbs.
Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Novak: GOP Could Lose Five Or More Senate Seats Next Year 2009
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Tancredo (6th) is the other sorryful soul who holds the district in the rich southern Denver suburbs.
Novak: GOP Could Lose Five Or More Senate Seats Next Year 2009
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His sorryful cry raised up as high as the heavens.
Blue Ridge Country Jean Thomas 1945
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Duirng Duff's wedding scene, the mufti announces, "Families, friends, infidels, we are gathered here ..." as she prepared to marry some sorryful schmuck.
unknown title 2009
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If ye maake it a haard job for me, be gorra I’ll inuake ye sorryful!”
Tropic Days 2003
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If ye maake it a haard job for me, be gorra I'll inuake ye sorryful! "
Tropic Days 1887
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"I bery sorryful when slaver people carry me off from my home in Pongo country.
In the Wilds of Africa William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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If He should lead the poor wandering lassie to Susan's door, and she comes back, crying and sorryful, led by that good angel to us once more, thou shalt never say a casting-up word to her about her sin, but be tender and helpful towards one 'who was lost and is found;' so may God's blessing rest on thee, and so mayst thou lead Susan home as thy wife. "
Lizzie Leigh Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837
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