Dolefulnesses [noun]

When Anthony was ready to speak of her Dahlia, she obtruded this question in utter dolefulness.

And the Rector, having laid down his pipe, took to studying his boots with a certain dolefulness.

Sébalt sat with legs across, and his elbow resting on his knee, gazing into the fire with unspeakable dolefulness.

Indeed all I have been doing was to get him to moderate his dolefulness.

My rendering of the famous ballad had, in consequence, acquired a dolefulness not intended by the composer.

"And I didn't make exactly a success of my marriage either," Winnie reflected, in a puzzled dolefulness.

And the rector, having laid down his pipe, took to studying his boots with a certain dolefulness.

"Don't want a birthdays," he announced with a suspicious dolefulness in his voice.

"You are so anxious to have me grow up," he replied, with proper dolefulness.

There was a certain accent of dolefulness in the way he said it.