Word: forlorned
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...emerges in his courage and vitality, and in the tenacity with which he held to his ideal of justice through the terrific injustices of his own life and age. Despite the memorable phrases of the Rights of Man, and his orations, readers will be most moved by his little forlorn admissions of the sickness of the age in which he lived, a sickness he recognized dimly that he shared. He seems not to have been driven by a clear vision of a better order; he had simply, like the mobs that were forming, seen too much of evil, and suffered...
Along the walls and in the corners of a Manhattan gallery, eerie creatures of wrinkled plaster and bronze stalked or stood like forlorn little Whiffenpoofs that had somehow lost their way. Slender as spindles, they vaguely resembled men & women emaciated and stretched to the snapping point. They bore themselves with a fragile grace; but their flesh was pitted and pocked, as if the crusted plaster had been dabbed on in a single feverish instant...
Human After All. Most of the fans and Referee Ruby Goldstein had no doubt about it. They gave the decision to Jersey Joe. But two judges voted the other way. As his arm was raised in victory, Joe Louis, a forlorn figure, got booed for the first time in his long ring career. The cheers were for Jersey Joe. The fact is that Walcott probably deserved the decision-even if no one deserved to win a world's heavyweight championship by riding a bicycle the last round. Louis, some $190,000 richer and still champion despite his weary legs...
Bush Christmas is the story of four white Australian children and one black one who set out, under pretense of a short camping trip, to trail a gang of horse thieves. The youngsters follow the bad men into grand, forlorn, unpeopled mountains. They get lost; they run out of food; they lean more & more on the little black boy's irreducible good cheer and his inherent ability to fend for himself. He teaches them not only how to live off the land (fried snakes for Christmas dinner), but also how to make life a merry hell for the horse...
...herbage is no longer green; The birds are to their haunts withdrawn, The leaves are scatter'd through the plain; The sun approaches Capricorn,* And man and creature looks forlorn...