wailful

A coil of cord, a colleen coy, a blush on a bush turned first man's laughter into wailful moither.

The men wavered in indecision for a moment, and then with a long, wailful cry the dilapidated regiment surged forward and began its new journey.

Wailful Wrath by the River (Jiang He Shui)

Mr. Lacy gives charming comparisons: Keats hears a "wailful choir," and Tennyson's "very heart faints" at the season.

More frightening, alien terms such as leukodystrophy and DNA mutation and myelin sheath were mentioned to the parents during this tensely wailful period.

But you, Sir Thurio, are not sharp enough; You must lay lime to tangle her desires By wailful sonnets, whose composed rhymes Should be full-fraught with serviceable vows.