She stared so boldly and so forlornly and so desperately that her heart could have done her talking for her. |
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He was looking forlornly over the spilt broth, and egg and bacon sandwich that were lying, muddied up and trod on, on the ground. |
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To those who had watched forlornly as his political hopes ground to a halt in 1989, 1994 and 1998, it seemed he was tempting fate. |
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But I have been gazing forlornly at my unoccupied bird bath since I was given it for Christmas. |
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As a technologically illiterate parent, I could only wave forlornly from the other side of the widening technological divide. |
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Instead, the stubble of last year's spring barley crop sticks forlornly out of the waterlogged ground where the winter wheat should have been. |
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The few city centre shopkeepers that had bothered to open waited forlornly for customers. |
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However, if you see me sniffing forlornly tomorrow morning on the Northern Line, have a heart, eh? |
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It shows the ship lying forlornly on her starboard side, almost completely capsized. |
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All he could do was stand in the rubble of his precious memories, and forlornly point out random spots now cluttered with cranes and building supplies. |
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She had lost the final point of that service game in disarray, falling over in mid-rally and desperately, but forlornly, flailing at the ball to try to get it back. |
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I toddled drowsily into the kitchen, rubbing the sleep from my eyes and feeling a whole lot better, to find Dolly sitting at the closed door, gazing forlornly out. |
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A TELEVISION advertisement in India for a mobile-phone operator opens with four friends staring forlornly at their car's smashed windshield. |
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At times he will eat nothing but the fish, and at other times the fish is left to sit forlornly on the plate, while he consumes every French fry within reach. |
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On busier roads, elderly, scarved women sat by piles of potatoes and onions hoping forlornly for a sale. |
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What were once shoreside amenities now stand forlornly in the middle of the desert, a 300-yard hike from the beach. |
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A woman wearing a silk skirt stares forlornly into a mirror. |
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After much fuss, the miracle fabric unexpectedly unravels, leaving him standing forlornly in his underpants. Barney Southin is deputy editor of Economist.com. |
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We huddle forlornly on some thin white towels I borrowed from our chalet. |
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The branches are coated with a thin skin of plaster or white paint so that, at first sight, they seem bleached of life, sapless and forlornly skeletal. |
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