| 1. | Implacable, and many a dolorous groan. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 2. | You take me in too dolorous a sens. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 3. | D'Artagnan was in a dolorous situation which he had not foreseen. - from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 4. | Dolor O, he dolores The voice of the mournful chanter called to dolorous prayer. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 5. | "From this prison here of horror, whence I every hour tend nearer and nearer to destruction, I send you, Monsieur heretofore the Marquis, the assurance of my dolorous and unhappy service. - from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens |
| 6. | I thus "Master say who are these, interr'd Within these vaults, of whom distinct we hear The dolorous sighs. - from The Divine Comedy, Complete by Dante Alighieri |
| 7. | And to all these questions poor Kitty, forced to put on a pleasant face, responded in a stifled voice whose dolorous accent her mistress did not however remark, solely because happiness is egotistical. - from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |