Catch-22 vocabulary

The squadron stood insensate, bereft of everything human but Doc Daneeka, who roosted dolorously like a shivering turkey buzzard beside the closed door of the medical tent, [...].

Joseph Heller. Catch-22, p.142 (1961)

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By way of "defining his position" he held up his foot, and snuffled very dolorously.

Ambrose Bierce. Cobwebs from an Empty Skull

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"Madam," quoth he with a most dolorous mien, "so I value my life, I must needs do my lord's bidding. He has bidden me take your daughter and…" He said no more, but [Griselda] by what she heard, and read in his face, and remembered of her husband's words, understood that he was bidden to put the child to death.

Giovanni Boccaccio. The Decameron, volume 2