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- The sweat stood on his brow as he paused under the low arch of the alley- end, tasting the bitter forlornness of the dog banned and set for death in that sunlit city. - "Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France", Stanley J. Weyman.
- They would have shuddered at the dust- windrowed street, the litter of refuse, the dismal lonesomeness, the forlornness, the utter isolation, the desolation. - "'Firebrand' Trevison", Charles Alden Seltzer.
- Desperate necessity, the sense of her own forlornness, the utter impossibility to struggle with an omnipotent foe, who, her husband had taught her, was above all scruples, prejudices, and fears, and who, though he respected law, despised opinion, made the victim yield. - "Coningsby", Benjamin Disraeli.
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