Dolours

Word DOLOURS
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What do we mean by dolours?

A painful grief or suffering.

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The word "dolours" in example sentences

Then said they to him, “How is it with thee, O King, and how deemest thou for thyself of these thy dolours?” ❋ Unknown (2006)

O thou heart-whole and free from dole and dolours I endure, ❋ Unknown (2006)

“O my brother, recite me some verses: perchance it may broaden my breast and dispel my dolours and quench the fire flaming in my heart.” ❋ Unknown (2006)

Replied the other, “I know all about thee and I know that also whereby Allah will dispel thy dolours.” ❋ Unknown (2006)

But, for all this, thou shalt have as many dolours for thy daughters as thou canst tell in a year. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Well has it been said that whosoever prays to her with faith and constancy can never be lost or cast away: and fitly is she too a haven of refuge for the afflicted because of the seven dolours which transpierced her own heart. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Nan's uncle, moving with hopeless and dragging steps about the sides of Maam hill, ruminating constantly on nature's caprice with sheep and crop, man's injustice, the poverty of barns, the discomforts of seasons, nourishing his sour self on reflections upon all life's dolours, would be coming after that for days upon the girl and Gilian gathering berries or on some such childish diversion in the woods behind the river. ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)

Do you think this little wee wife with her hair getting grey -- not so grey either, though -- was always in old maid dolours in her garret thinking of hoasts and headaches and cures for them, and her brothers 'slippers and her own rheumatics on rainy days? ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)

Colin again in the dolours, poor company for them that would harbour any delusion of youth. ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)

On the rocky edge of the islet at one part showed the white fringe of the waves now more peaceful; to the north brooded enormous hills, seen dimly by the stars, couchant terrors, vague, vast shapes of dolours and alarms. ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)

The remembrance hereof ought to make us patient in the days of affliction, and so to comfort us, that when we see tyrants in their blind rage tread under foot the saints of God, we despair not utterly, as if there were neither wisdom, justice, nor power above in the heavens, to repress such tyrants, and to redress the dolours of the unjustly afflicted. ❋ John Welch (N/A)

Give us, O Lord! hearts to visit thee in time of affliction; and albeit we see no end of our dolours, yet our faith and hope may conduct us to the assured hope of that joyful resurrection, in which we shall possess the fruit of that for which we now labour. ❋ John Welch (N/A)

_Ave Maria_ the _Via Crucis_ at Caravita, and devotion of the dolours of the B. Virgin at S. Marcello, etc. ❋ Charles Michael Baggs (N/A)

“Well then my Lord, (quoth the Duchesse) sithens it pleaseth you not, that I renewe my dolours past, which have taken ende by your meane, I shall humbly beseche you to excuse mee, if this daye I haue not geuen you that honour and good entertainement whiche you deserued: assuring you that before you shall departe this countrey, I wyll make you amendes according vnto your own discretion.” ❋ William Painter (N/A)

Only abstain from external iniquity '-- which he supplements elsewhere with the more positive advice,' Be fervent in reading, fervent in prayer, and merciful to the poor, according to your power, and God shall put an end to all dolours, when least is thought [according] to the judgment of man. ' ❋ A. Taylor Innes (N/A)

My romance was not in the things of glitter and chocolate-box gaiety, but rather in the dolours and silences of the ❋ Thomas Burke (1915)

But for all this thou shalt have as many dolours for thy daughters as thou canst tell in a year. ❋ Unknown (1914)

Many sick folk were healed of divers sicknesses and dolours only to have touched his hood. ❋ 1230-1298 (1900)

Then the tempest broke, and the building wrought by a strong man's labours, and toils, and hopes, and joys, and dolours had been lifted, and torn, and rent, and scattered as a hill-bothy of poles and straw-bundles, or a moorland shelter of heather and bushes is scattered by the fury of a northern mountain-blast. ❋ Richard Dehan (1897)

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