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The term "forlornly" is often used in literature to intensify the mood by highlighting a sense of desolation, melancholy, or aimless abandonment. It not only describes the physical posture or facial expressions of characters—such as standing, gazing, or laughing in a way that conveys inner despair [1, 2, 3]—but also colors the atmosphere of settings, from creaking houses to weather-beaten landscapes, imbuing them with an air of isolation and neglect [4, 5, 6]. Moreover, its placement in sentences often transforms a simple action into one laden with emotional weight, suggesting both psychological and sometimes even physical despondency in the narrative [7, 8, 9].
  1. He was clothed in a thin armour of ice from head to foot and it trickled from him in little showers as he stood forlornly before us.
    — from RecollectionsWith Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number ofOriginal Letters, of which one by George Meredith andanother by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced infacsimile by David Christie Murray
  2. "I haven't got any," said Meg forlornly.
    — from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott
  3. “Oh, no, it takes me to make such a mistake,” said Anne forlornly.
    — from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
  4. Against the twilight rises the trapezoidal top of the stack, which has stood forlornly here through the washing and bleaching of the wintry weather.
    — from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy
  5. Here we saw the masts of H.M.S. Pegasus sticking up forlornly out of the water half-a-mile on our port bow.
    — from From Dartmouth to the Dardanelles: A Midshipman's Log by Wolston B. C. W. (Wolston Beaumont Charles Weld) Forester
  6. He slunk forlornly through the deserted camp, smelling the rubbish-heaps and the discarded rags and tags of the gods.
    — from White Fang by Jack London
  7. She could not roam about and amuse herself, for the burned breadth would show, so she stared at people rather forlornly till the dancing began.
    — from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
  8. In the meantime the boys were gazing very forlornly at Wendy, now equipped with John and Michael for the journey.
    — from Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
  9. He seemed frozen into a statue of despair, sitting with his head bowed forlornly, and his vacant eyes on the floor.
    — from Little Golden's Daughter; or, The Dream of a Life Time by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.

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