Wept

Examples

• Not a single one but has at some time wept. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Now I wept: Helen Burns was not here; nothing sustained me; left to myself I abandoned myself, and my tears watered the boards. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• She wept, however, as she bade me farewell, and entreated me to return happy and tranquil. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• At this dreadful reflection, Mrs. Nupkins wept mental anguish, and Miss Nupkins followed on the same side. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• He stood up to defend Aspasia, he was seized by a storm of very human emotion, and as he spoke he wept--a gleeful thing for the rabble. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I record it here as a notable but not discreditable fact that not even our pilgrims wept. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• They wept,--both the two savage men. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• But, this impulse yielded to, I speedily put her out of the classe, for, upon that poignant strain, she wept more bitterly than ever. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• When his second assailant fell, the woman clasped her children to her breast and wept for joy. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I wept on the blessed shores of Galilee. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The nightingale's song was then the only voice of the hour: in listening to it, I again wept. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Wagg wept before Fiche and implored his dear friend to intercede for him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I saw him--I wept--I cried--I fell at his odious knees. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• She herself wept as Elizabeth spoke, but she did not answer. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• That's a fair young lady to be pitied by and wept for by! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• She is still remembered, still wept. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I wept to see her, and she wept to see me; I, because she looked so fresh and pleasant; she, because I looked so worn and white. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Though stoical, I was not quite a stoic; drops streamed fast on my hands, on my desk: I wept one sultry shower, heavy and brief. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• She was in a state of inexpressible admiration of Mrs. Bounderby, and, like an unaccountable old woman, wept, 'because she was such a pretty dear. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Gramercy for the few drops of thy sprinkling, replied De Bracy; but this damsel hath wept enough to extinguish a beacon-light. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• I discovered more distinctly the black sides of Jura, and the bright summit of Mont Bl?nc; I wept like a child: Dear mountains! Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• My cousin wept also. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• She wept over her little girl; she looked, she spoke, as if she dreaded the occurrence of some frightful calamity. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• How she laughed and wept over it--how love, and hope, and prayer woke again in her bosom as the baby nestled there. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Then Ruth came, and they wept together, and lamented, then Naomi came to comfort them. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• As these considerations occurred to her in painful succession, she wept for him, more than for herself. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• She was one who wept without showing many traces, like a child. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I have remembered Who wept for a parting between the living and the dead. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• She spoke and wept with that gentleness which makes such words and tears omnipotent over a loving-hearted man. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• At last Mrs. Pryor wept. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

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