Adjective : forlorn glances. ,forlorn of comfort. From Dictionary.com.
Hugh stirred feebly in the dark of a great forlornness and loneliness. From Wordnik.com. [Red Pottage] Reference
The old sense of forlornness, of being alone and uncared for, returned to her. From Wordnik.com. [Little Lost Sister] Reference
But probably some forlornness crept into the overtones, for the neighbor stopped. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Book of Stormgate]
It had an air of ludicrous forlornness, with its damaged paint and its tied-up harness. From Wordnik.com. [The Path of a Star] Reference
And at the same time, never had she felt so acutely the agony of her own female forlornness. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Chatterley's Lover] Reference
A forlornness would descend on her like a shroud then and would lift only when Eid had passed. From Wordnik.com. [A Thousand Splendid Suns]
Sara felt the stricture of forlornness and fear about her heart loosen suddenly at sight of her. From Wordnik.com. [Sara, a Princess] Reference
She was now more sensible than ever of the forlornness of her own condition, and of the danger of. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of the Forest] Reference
Our choice in this moment of utter forlornness will change the form and the content of the universe. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi Awraham Soetendorp: Retrieving G-d's Hidden Rays of Light: A Global Partnership Is Emerging] Reference
Then Mr. Edson, who had good abilities, in his forlornness and despair, threw them all to the winds. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy] Reference
Adeline sat lost in thought: the forlornness of her circumstances came heightened to her imagination. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of the Forest] Reference
It is needless to add, that a deep sense of forlornness and insecurity was the result of these reflections. From Wordnik.com. [Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities.] Reference
About him there is a forlornness that the quick eye never fails to discover in the manners of the homeless man. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
Around that time, Drake called a friend, who said he could feel "the fear ... the dread, the forlornness" in Drake's voice. From Wordnik.com. [Former NSA executive Thomas A. Drake may pay high price for media leak] Reference
"How can I draw life into this metal construct?" asked the thinking machine, an eerie forlornness crackling through his speakers. From Wordnik.com. [An East Wind Coming]
They went on round the house, peeping into window after window, peering into dim, dusty rooms that bad a look of utter forlornness. From Wordnik.com. [The Rockingdown Mystery]
To anger succeeded a mood of desperate forlornness. From Wordnik.com. [The Price She Paid] Reference
He was obsessed by the solitary idea of his own forlornness. From Wordnik.com. [The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel] Reference
But there were no tears in her eyes, no forlornness in her voice. From Wordnik.com. [The Grain of Dust] Reference
Cecily had nothing to say; she leant back in a limp forlornness while. From Wordnik.com. [Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House] Reference
We had subjected ourselves to all this forlornness simply for pleasure. From Wordnik.com. [In the Wilderness] Reference
Somehow, the despair and the forlornness had gone out of Dolly's heart. From Wordnik.com. [The End of a Coil] Reference
When I got into an empty carriage I was conscious of some sense of forlornness. From Wordnik.com. [Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales] Reference
Somehow this sudden severance from the old days had brought with it a forlornness. From Wordnik.com. [Jill the Reckless] Reference
The house had that strange air of forlornness which seems to proclaim sorrow within. From Wordnik.com. [Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland] Reference
Her reply began with a hint of forlornness that vanished with her smile, as she warned. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Lady of the Big House] Reference
There, then, he sat, holding up that imbecile candle in the heart of that almighty forlornness. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick, or, the whale] Reference
But Anne, lonely in her new quarters, had appreciated the forlornness of the old drake and had adopted him. From Wordnik.com. [Mistress Anne] Reference
When they met he yielded to an impulse which the invalid's forlornness inspired, and went on to see him off. From Wordnik.com. [The Landlord at Lion's Head — Complete] Reference
A sense of desolation, a forlornness greater than she had ever known in all her short life descended upon her. From Wordnik.com. [Across the Mesa] Reference
It is reported that unmarried ladies such as Miss Baker generally regret the forlornness of their own condition. From Wordnik.com. [The Bertrams] Reference
On the bridge itself sat a young man who surprised me by saying "hello" and gazing at me with an odd forlornness. From Wordnik.com. [Blogposts | guardian.co.uk] Reference
I recognized her at a glance (by her general forlornness), and called to the driver to stop: "How is Miss Grief?". From Wordnik.com. [Stories by American Authors (Volume 4)] Reference
But a feeling of hesitation and forlornness rising, he knew not whence, made him pause irresolute before the window. From Wordnik.com. [The Country House] Reference
The heart depressed by drudgery, hardship, forlornness, craves not merely moral guidance but exhilaration and ecstacy. From Wordnik.com. [The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement] Reference
And even then he half smiled to himself at the forlornness of the hope that he should ever need a standing place again. From Wordnik.com. [We Two, a novel] Reference
No wonder that, overcome by the sense of her utter forlornness, she hid her face with her fettered hands and wept in despair. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Backwoods] Reference
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