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Sentences starting with forlorn

Forlorn as was the hotel at Union, the landlord's daughters were beginning to draw the lines in rural refinement. [4]

Sentences ending with forlorn

Then, when she was freed again--she saw it all quite clearly--two heads had been cut off in the courtyard of the Hall of justice: Orion's and Paula's--and she was left alone, quite alone and forlorn. [10]
The village went to its rest on Tuesday night, sad and forlorn. [5]
There they grouped themselves about, in couples and threes, and mumbled in bated voices, and looked timid and homeless and forlorn. [5]
And was she not burdened and friendless and forlorn! [4]
I am so forlorn. [4]
Her dog has been wandering about the grounds today, comradeless and forlorn. [5]
So toppled my airy castle to the earth and left me stricken and forlorn. [5]

Short sentences using forlorn

It is a forlorn hope. [11]

More example sentences with the word forlorn in them

Come, vagrant, outcast, wretch forlorn In leather jerkin stained and torn, Whose talk has filled my idle hour And made me half forget the shower, I'll do at least as much for you, Your coat I'll patch, your gilt renew, Read you,--perhaps,--some other time. [6]
He presented himself with a somewhat forlorn countenance to Dr. Fordyce Hurlbut, as suffering from some of the less formidable symptoms of that affection. [6]
All her sympathies were excited by the thought of this forlorn stranger in his solitude, but she felt the impossibility of giving any complete expression to them. [6]
And how fair was the forlorn bride in these days of waiting and of weary unsatisfied longing! [10]
Now they are wandering, forlorn, hopeless, and homeless, the victims of a great disaster. [5]
He dragged himself upstairs, and brooded in his room a long time, disconsolate and forlorn, with Luigi's Indian knife for a text. [5]
It was forlorn to have to turn out in a strange place at such a time, and the blinking lights in the station made it seem night still. [5]
Yes, I seemed to have flown back out of that age into this of ours, and then forward to it again, and was set down, a stranger and forlorn in that strange England, with an abyss of thirteen centuries yawning between me and you! [5]
But it seemed to be a forlorn place; those who had studied it most agreed in considering it a "cold, crude, silent, and desolate" ruin of nature, without the possibility, if life were on it, of articulate speech, of music, even of sound. [6]
One was tempted to ask: "What forlorn hope have you led? [6]
There was a timid knock at the door, and a forlorn little figure, clad in a rumpled calico, with an old shawl over her head, half concealing an eager and pretty face, stood in the doorway, and hesitatingly came in. [4]
How she dreaded this most forlorn of all a teacher's tasks! [6]
Right gladly will they serve the son of him who hath done so generously by them--and the more that that son is himself as poor and as forlorn as any that be sheltered here this day, or ever shall be. [5]
Wilson was elected, the twins were defeated--crushed, in fact, and left forlorn and substantially friendless. [5]
I was in the next boat to the General's, for, with Clark and twenty-two other volunteers to the forlorn hope, I was to show the way up the heights, and we were near to his person for over two hours that night. [11]
Still others said that the vision came but once, and then only to the sinless dying forlorn in distant lands and pitifully longing for some last dear reminder of their home. [5]
Do not think that the old look upon themselves as the helpless, hopeless, forlorn creatures which they seem to young people. [6]
The face was that of a devotee, not of peace but of war--of some forlorn crusade. [11]
When he realised that all his reasoning was wasted, that all worldly argument was vain, he made one last attempt, a forlorn hope, as though to put upon record what he believed to be the truth. [11]
She had a taste for poetry, and an admiration of poets; but, what was better, she was modest and simple, and a perfect sister and mother and grandmother to the two little forlorn twins who had been stranded on the Widow Hopkins's doorstep. [6]
In the treacherous sunlight we see Venice decayed, forlorn, poverty-stricken, and commerceless--forgotten and utterly insignificant. [5]
Tears of emotion stood in Nefert's eyes, and when Uarda flung herself into her arms she said: "The forlorn swan has found its kindred, the floating leaf has reached the shore, and must be happy now! [10]
Was there a single afflicted person, one forlorn soul whom she had directly and personally helped, or sheltered from the storm for a moment, one bereaved being whose eyes she had dried by her own direct personal sympathy? [11]
But it seems she was to leave Philadelphia on Wednesday, and will be at that forlorn little station of Asquith at half-past nine to-night. [9]
He looked so seedy and forlorn, so homeless and friendless and forsaken, that I yearned toward him as a brother. [5]
Thus stripped, he roamed about Normandy in a forlorn condition, occasionally entertained by honorable persons who had heard of his misfortunes, and seeking always means of continuing his travels, wandering from port to port on the chance of embarking on a man-of-war. [4]
It promised to remain so, and I wished I had had better sense than to enter upon such a forlorn enterprise. [5]
The writer met recently, in the Colorado desert of Arizona, a forlorn census-taker who had been six weeks in the saddle, roaming over the alkali plains in order to gratify the vanity of Uncle Sam. [4]
Union, on the railway, is the forlornest of little villages, with some three hundred inhabitants and a forlorn hotel, kept by an ex-stage-driver. [4]
Suppose she were poor and hungry, a woman wandering forlorn, how stony and pitiless these insolent mansions! [4]
Without the presence or the fear of these exotic maladies, the forlorn voyagers of the Mayflower had sickness enough to contend with. [3]
He was prepared only as a forlorn hope is prepared, with energy, with personal courage, with knowledge; and never were these more needed. [11]
What forlorn people one sees stranded on their desolate shores! [6]
Probably there is not anywhere a more rusty, forlorn town, and this in spite of its magnificent situation. [4]
It was untenanted, neglected; its windows were unwashed, a pane of glass was broken; its threshold appeared untrodden, its whole aspect forlorn and desolate. [6]
I almost pity myself when I think of what a forlorn stranger I was in their company. [9]
And you owe me no grudge, I know, for you understood how forlorn I must be and came to see me. [10]
I stand here, lone and forlorn, without an ancestor. [5]
I am the lineal descendant of that infant--I am the rightful Duke of Bridgewater; and here am I, forlorn, torn from my high estate, hunted of men, despised by the cold world, ragged, worn, heart-broken, and degraded to the companionship of felons on a raft! [5]
We did not know whether to smile or to drop a tear, as we contemplated these baits hung out to tempt the coins from the exiguous purses of ancient maidens, forlorn widows, withered annuitants, stranded humanity in every stage of shipwrecked penury. [6]
I have entered it once since, when it was tenantless and silent and forlorn, but to me it was a holy place and beautiful. [5]
So I think it more for a lively young fellow to be ready to play nurse than for one of those useful but forlorn martyrs who have taken a spite against themselves and love to gratify it by fasting and watching. [6]
McGilveray knew that it might be impossible to reach the fuse--there was no time to spare, and he had set about to row the devilish machine out of range of the vessels which were carrying Wolfe's army to a forlorn hope. [11]
Follow the pitiful inventory of insignificances of the forlorn being he describes with a pathetic humor more likely to bring a sigh than a smile, and then mark the grand hyperbole of the last two lines. [6]
We actually went into camp in a snow-drift in a desert, at midnight in a storm, forlorn and hopeless, within fifteen steps of a comfortable inn. [5]
We wander forlorn in a lack-lustre landscape. [6]
He was young, ignorant, good-natured, well-meaning, trivial, full of romance, and given to reading chivalric novels and singing forlorn love-ditties. [5]
And here am I, old, forsaken, forlorn, and alone, arranging to get that argument out of somebody again. [5]
What business had I to be trying experiments on this forlorn old soul? [6]
She felt a hopelessness of their ever being extricated together from that forlorn place; a dull conviction that she was very ill, perhaps dying; but no fear or anxiety. [12]
I have seen him passing along several times recently --drooping, forlorn, the spring gone from his step, a pathetic figure. [5]
He had met her now and then in her walks to and from school and meeting, and had been taken with her beauty and her apparent unconsciousness of it, which he attributed to the forlorn kind of household in which she had grown up. [6]
As soon as he has delivered his message the book-binder puts a coat on his back, and he joins the forlorn brotherhood of "back volumes," than which, so long as they are unindexed, nothing can be more exasperating. [3]
Again and again he had been engaged in perilous sorties and leading forlorn hopes. [11]
She felt herself going round and round and round in a circle, not forlorn enough to rebel or break away, but dazed and wondering and shrinking. [11]
We could not get near the fire, so we moved at large in the artic spaces, among a multitude of people who sat silent, smileless, forlorn, and shivering--thinking what fools they were to come, perhaps. [5]
Merciful night hid from his view the forlorn station and the ragged town. [9]
I was a forlorn old tree, but now that this blossoming vine has wound itself about me and become the life of my life, it is very different. [5]
He had been forlorn in his great house of late, but no such cause as that was needed to move him to cast his eye on the fair widow of his very reverend brother's best friend. [10]
I am as forlorn as thou. [5]
Many watering-places look forlorn and desolate in the intervals of "the season. [6]
These were two forlorn and aged sisters who lived in a log hut in a lonely place up a cross road four miles from Mrs. Taylor's farm. [5]
But this woman's face was so forlorn, apart, and lonely, that the old spirit of the Open Road worked its will. [11]
We were miserable enough, before; we felt still more forlorn, now. [5]
Her glory is departed, and with her crumbling grandeur of wharves and palaces about her she sits among her stagnant lagoons, forlorn and beggared, forgotten of the world. [5]
One musket could defeat the forlorn hope of any army. [11]
The Sunday morning dawned brightly, and the church bells ringing brought me to my feet, and out into Piccadilly, in the forlorn hope that I might see my lady on her way to morning service,--see her for the last time in life, perhaps. [9]
So Livy and Clara (Spaulding) sat down forlorn, and cried, and I retired to a private, place to pray. [5]
A thing not captured by a forlorn hope seemed not worth having. [11]
And you are but a thought--a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities! [5]
The attendance was better at the chapel; more of the penitent and forlorn came to him for help. [4]
He sat down beside the forlorn chief, and in the silence their souls spoke to each other. [11]
I should have been a forlorn creature but for the presence of my companion. [6]
Let him not be discouraged at his apparent little influence, even though every sally of every young life may seem like a forlorn hope. [4]
Narrandera mourns, Cameron answers not When the roll of the scathless we cry Tongariro, Goondiwindi, Woolundunga, the spot Is mute and forlorn where ye lie. [5]
Abide with me, and you shall not die of thirst, like the forlorn wretches left to the mercies of the pitiless salt waves. [6]
She smiled good-naturedly, and replied, "It is a forlorn home for anything above a lichen or a toadstool; but that is no wonder, when you know what the air is which they breathe. [6]
With three ships and one hundred and fifty persons, mostly artificers, he embarked on the 1st of April, 1610, and reached the Chesapeake Bay on the 5th of June, just in time to meet the forlorn company of Gates and Somers putting out to sea. [4]
A lively, wholesome, and encouraging discourse, such as it would do many a forlorn New England congregation good to hear. [6]
It might, after all, be a little more cheerful for her forlorn patients. [4]
They had forgotten all about the enemy; they thought only of this one forlorn unit of the foe. [5]
She looked so aimless and forlorn that, though I did not remember her at first, I thought she might be ill, and spoke to her, and asked her what was the matter. [4]
The pavements that afternoon, as Hodder and the forlorn woman left the cool porticoes of St. John's, were like the floor of a stone oven, and the work horses wore little bonnets over their heads. [9]
When he got abroad at last he was hardly grateful that he had been spared, remembering how lonely was his estate, how companionless and forlorn he was. [5]
We can call a host of other witnesses if we like, among them cranky, happy-go-lucky Fletcher Bartlett, who has led forlorn hopes in former years. [9]
A forlorn fishing-station, a dreary hotel? [4]

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