Word: forlornly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Leave me to bear forlorn my load of care...
...example of a captain set by F. W. Thayer. To Tyng the College extends her warmest praise, for his pluckiness in facing Ernst's swift delivery with his broken finger; at New Haven he appeared as a mountain of strength to infuse confidence into what Yale regarded as a forlorn hope, and New Haven knows full well how successful he was. Ernst demonstrated by his effective pitching that the loss of Tyng in the second game was the sole cause of Yale's heavy batting. To the graduates of the Nine of 1878 the Crimson bids a last farewell...
...wanted "some more noted college" to lend a little prestige to the affair." Therefore they "proceeded to attitudinize in a peculiarly enticing manner before Harvard." "But Harvard had acquired considerable sagacity in its adversity, and probably remembering another (Association' to which it belonged once upon a time, and the forlorn hope it was compelled to lead there by some precocious 'Western upstarts,' it politely declined the proffered honor." We are not called upon to defend ourselves from insinuations of this sort, even when they are thrown out by a paper which has for a motto, "Above all Sects is Truth...
Lifeless, useless, stale, forlorn...
Seared and withered, leaf forlorn...