wailful

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Examples

• He suggested that the poems, if the few lines he had seen made a fair sample, were rather of the wailful order.

• The battle was ending without even the poor pomp and circumstance of torn banners and wailful music.

• You must lay lime to tangle her desires By wailful sonnets whose composèd rimep.

• Clouds were gathering overhead, and a wailful wind made one moaning sweep through the trees behind us in the hollow.

• Then over their tops passed a wailful gust of wind, through which we thought came the fall of receding footsteps.