Doors close abruptly in hero's face with a dirgeful ding-dong.

About then a small brass band struck up a dirgeful tune, and Pan, who fancied himself a musician, listened critically.

The coffins were carried into the nave as the steeple bell tolled dirgeful single notes.

For this album, the band picked up the pace of their sound from the dirgeful slowness of World Coming Down.

To the dirgeful sound of a cello, it gratuitously showed an editorial cartoon of a miner's spike driven into the heart of the nation.

Visitors poured up the hill to the Kennedy graves here at Arlington National Cemetery, the sweltering summer heat compounding the day's dirgeful tinge as they left flowers and notes.