Lamenting

Examples

• We passed about a week together, during which time I was continually talking of poor Meyler and lamenting his precarious state of health. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Some were lamenting, and in restless motion; but, these were few. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Laurie smiled, but he liked the spirit with which she took up a new purpose when a long-cherished one died, and spent no time lamenting. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Epidemic diseases, I believed, were often heralded by a gasping, sobbing, tormented, long-lamenting east wind. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• You are a mere infant, but you'll go next, Jo, and we'll be left lamenting, said Laurie, shaking his head over the degeneracy of the times. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Burns, lamenting that his share uptears the bed of the wee modest crimson-tipped flower and sorrowing that he has turned the Mousie from its bit o' leaves and stibble by the cruel coulter. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• And instead of having any shame or self-control, he will be always whining and lamenting on slight occasions. Plato. The Republic.
• He did believe it, as the noise without shook the window, rattled at the door below, and went about the house clamouring and lamenting. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• The Roman writers were always lamenting the effeminacy of the age. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• She could feel her soul crying out in her, lamenting desolately. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Keep your damned head and get the anger out and stop this cheap lamenting like a damned wailing wall. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.

Typed by Alphonse