| 1. | Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peac. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 2. | She passed into another ballad, this time a really doleful one. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 3. | And doleful dumps the mind oppress. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 4. | Let doleful tidings greet his mother's ear. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 5. | Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 6. | "Yet how, on this dark and doleful evening, could you so suddenly rise on my lone heart. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 7. | Then death rock me asleep, abridge my doleful day. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 8. | Here's one to a very doleful tune how a usurer's wif. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 9. | A disturbed and doleful mind he brought to bear upon them, and slowly and heavily the day lagged on with him. - from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens |