Woes
[wəʊz]
Examples
- Secrets absurd Leading to woes, Only are heard Under the rose. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The communications were renewed from day to day: they always ran on the same theme--herself, her loves, and woes. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- So short now seemed the remaining voyage of life,--so near, so vivid, seemed eternal blessedness,--that life's uttermost woes fell from him unharming. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- When night fell he was then more at rest, for in sleep he found a certain amount of compensation for the woes of his waking hours. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- To that water--cause of my woes, perhaps now to be their cure, I would betake myself. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Oh, I know it is easy for one to advise calmly on the woes of others. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Before calamity she is a tigress; she rends her woes, shivers them in convulsed abhorrence. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- But he is generally melancholy and despairing; and sometimes he gnashes his teeth, as if impatient of the weight of woes that oppresses him. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Miss Bart asked with a touch of irritation: she had not come to listen to the woes of other people. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Example: The selfishness of Achilles, as remarked by the poet Homer, occasioned a thousand woes to the Greeks--muri Achaiois alge etheke--(Hom. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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