Lamented

Examples

• Yes, Watson, I went there, and I found very quickly that the late lamented Oldacre was a pretty considerable blackguard. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• She was the mother of fifteen children, when she died lamented and respected by every one who knew her. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Much to be lamented, no doubt, particularly by myself, who am a child of nature if I could but show it; but so it is. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Likewise she overdid her respect, and all that, for the lamented memory of the deceased Mr. Tulkinghorn. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Then Ruth came, and they wept together, and lamented, then Naomi came to comfort them. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• If my lamented friend had taken my advice, the business of the inquest would have been with the body of Mr. Hartright. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• From early youth he had considered his pedigree with complacency, and bitterly lamented his want of wealth. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• But my lamented friend was obstinate. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• When they can be got to believe that the kettle is made of the precious metals, in that fact lies the whole power of men like our late lamented. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Speaking of Amy;--my poor little pet was devotedly attached to poor papa, and no doubt will have lamented his loss exceedingly, and grieved very much. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• It isn't only Lady Cressida, she lamented. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• In this emigration, I exceedingly lamented the loss of the fire which I had obtained through accident, and knew not how to re-produce it. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Here lies Pip March, Who died the 7th of June; Loved and lamented sore, And not forgotten soon. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• My friends lamented my connexion with him, but I was to make the best of it. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Lamented be the hour, said Rebecca, that has taught such art to the House of Israel! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• You have not got my lamented friend to deal with now--you are face to face with Fosco! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Lived universally respected, and died lamented. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• After her marriage, her ladyship still continued her friendship and, indeed, almost up to the time of the very lamented death of that amiable lady. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Raymond then lamented the cureless evil of his situation with Perdita. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I lamented my own folly and wilfulness, in attempting a second voyage, against the advice of all my friends and relations. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• They had been speaking of it as they walked about Highbury the day before, and Frank Churchill had most earnestly lamented her absence. Jane Austen. Emma.
• He was as little as possible like the lamented Hicks, especially in a certain careless refinement about his toilet and utterance. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

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