1 Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure, now that it was truly their own food, produced by themselves and for themselves, not doled out to them by a grudging master.
2 An allowance of brandy was doled out to each.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED 3 And after the first flush of freedom wore off, and his true helplessness dawned on the freedman, he came back and picked up his hoe, and old master still doled out his bacon and meal.
4 The tunes were either very lively or very doleful, and he sang words to some of them.
5 There was one who raised a doleful cry.
6 The men's faces grew doleful from the interpreting of omens.
7 The expression of her face was an odd mixture of shrewdness and cunning, over which was oddly drawn, like a kind of veil, an expression of the most doleful gravity and solemnity.
8 So it was not very pleasant when she opened the door of her room, to see Martha standing waiting for her with a doleful face.
9 The clock of the Invalides struck a quarter to twelve; the west wind bore on its moistened gusts the doleful vibration of the three strokes.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 82. The Burglary. 10 She passed into another ballad, this time a really doleful one.
11 If he does go, the change will be doleful.
12 We had a doleful parting, and when I took my place by Magwitch's side, I felt that that was my place henceforth while he lived.
13 I picture my small self in the dimly-lighted rooms, sitting with my head upon my hand, listening to the doleful performance of Mr. Mell, and conning tomorrow's lessons.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 5. I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME 14 He has been very silent and doleful of late.
15 One sent forth the praises of Athelstane in a doleful panegyric; another, in a Saxon genealogical poem, rehearsed the uncouth and harsh names of his noble ancestry.