The women bewailtheir virginity for three nights before their marriage.
Among the Flatheads the bravest of the men and women ceremoniallybewail the loss of a warrior by cutting out pieces of their own flesh and casting them with roots and other articles into the fire.
Leave the vain disappointed girl to bewail her sorrow in sad and lonely seclusion; where her tears will flow unheeded.
Do you weep over this havoc caused by treacherous death, or do you bewail the fall of your leader's spirit?
I was contented until now, and rejoiced in my misery, and triumphantly thought of the time when I was wont to bewail my broken heart and lost soul.
He had summoned courage to bewail the terrible scene, weeping and mourning over her cruelty and his shame.
And she said unto her father, Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may go up and down upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my fellows.
Therefore I will bewailwith the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen.
How many will they be who will bewail their deceased forefathers, carrying lights to them.
In vain did it bewail itself recognising that it was born to no good end.
At which she began to sob, and bewail her ruin and the dishonour of her family.
When our two friends met the next morning, the count began to bewail the misfortune of his captivity, and the backwardness of friends to assist each other in their necessities.
We will charitably suppose that, in a great majority of such instances, she will bewail it.
Being asked the reason of his abundant tears, he answered: "I weep for my sins: if we had only once offended God, we could never sufficiently bewail this misfortune.
With what floods of tears can we sufficientlybewail so grievous a misfortune, and implore the divine mercy in behalf of so many souls!
And when the Danava hosts had been destroyed, all their females began to bewail in that city, like unto cranes in autumn.
And grieved exceedingly he began to bewail the unworthy fate that had laid his father low.
And embracing his dead son, Medhavi's father began to bewail his fate.
To bewail the loss of a person we love is a happiness compared with the necessity of living with one we hate.
But it was a waste of time to bewail what could not be helped, and nothing was to be gained by staying where he was.
It was idle to bewail the necessity which compelled them to leave so many precious articles behind.
In mentioning this circumstance Camoens has not fallen into the common error of little poets, who on every occasion bewail the outrage which the Goths and Vandals did to the arts and sciences.
The wars of the present day call whole nations to arms; there is scarcely a family that has not had to bewail lost ones.
Jeremiah apostrophizes the country, bidding herbewail her imminent ruin.
But the day of grace being past, nothing is left for the prophet himself but to bewail the ruin of his people (ver.
Unlike certain modern poets, who bewail the sorrows of the world as the mere infliction of a harsh and arbitrary and inevitable Destiny, Jeremiah makes no doubt that human sufferings are due to the working of Divine justice.
Bewail your sins, for the jaws of hell are open; woe to you, husbands and wives; woe to you, parents and children.
After his words, were heard voices: "We bewail our sins!
A band of afflicted people come to bewail her death.
My will waits upon yours; I can no longer have one of my own; but at any rate your oracle has severed me from two sisters, and the king, my father, whom my supposed death has all three reduced to bewail me.
Were we not one and all born fools, and if we did but measure it as it is now and ever shall be, with the wisdom of the sage, we should never cease to bewail ourselves, from the nurse's rod to the scythe of death.
Let me call as witnesses those who by dint of toil have reached the pinnacle, and who no sooner have arrived than they forthwith bewail the too easy accomplishment of their wish.
You will be ashamed of your own boldness, you will be sorry you were so light-hearted, and begin to bewail that in its sore straits your soul has been unable to break through the wedged phalanx of your foes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bewail" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
