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Example sentences for "bewailing"

Lexicographically close words:
bevor; bevy; bewail; bewaile; bewailed; bewails; bewar; beware; bewayle; beweep
  1. While he expected with tranquility that I should solicit my pardon, I passed whole days and nights in calling on the name of my father, and in bewailing my lover!

  2. Reduced to the cruel situation of bewailing you both, where shall I find a solace for my miseries?

  3. The omission of what never was in our power cannot cause remorse, and the bewailing what never can become in our power cannot afford comfort.

  4. He made no answer, being occupied in mentally bewailing the loss of the flute, which had been confiscated for the use of the county; so Miss Nancy passed on to the next cell, and knocked there.

  5. But all the domestics wept throughout the house, bewailing their mistress, but she stretched out her right hand to each, and there was none so mean, whom she addressed not, and was answered in return.

  6. Are they indeed bewailing my wretched banishment?

  7. O thou ancient possession of my mistress's house, why dost thou stand at the gates preserving thus thy solitude, bewailing to thyself our misfortunes?

  8. Jove will avenge these wrongs for thee: waste not thyself so, bewailing thy husband.

  9. In this rough habitation dwelt a hermit, whose voice they heard bewailing the sad fate to which his country was doomed.

  10. When the porter opened the door, the Lord High Steward of England had breathed his last, and poor De Fistycuff was bewailing his loved master's death, and his own hard fate, in being thus left alone in a foreign land.

  11. The Colonel once expressed a desire to attend the Governor’s levée; but bewailing the fact that he had not brought his uniform, he proceeded to describe it.

  12. Bobby meanwhile was champing his bit, and bewailing the time that might so much more profitably have been passed at the “Pic,” when a man in the immaculate disguise of a coachman walked hurriedly through the room.

  13. For the governors to equip armed fleets is a very difficult enterprise; for from that time until the present people have been bewailing the heavy costs, and regretting the ruin of the Indians who perished in the shipyards.

  14. He spent his hours out of office in bewailing his luck, celebrating the hardness of the times, and proclaiming the hopelessness of his prospects.

  15. Her first soldier, the tortured victim of a gas-attack, was bewailing the fate of his motherless child.

  16. Chapter III Now, leaving Blanchefleur thus bewailing herself at Babylon, let us return to King Fenis and his Queen.

  17. The minute the old fellow laid eyes upon me, he began bewailing my lot and ordered me to tell him exactly what had happened.

  18. In the meantime the governor of the province had ordered some robbers crucified near the little vault in which the lady was bewailing her recent loss.

  19. The physician, melting into tears, and bewailing himself sadly for being so ill rewarded by the king, prepared for death.

  20. His discourse afflicted us mortally, and we embraced one another with tears in our eyes, bewailing our deplorable lot.

  21. The cavalcade was begun; and, as second actor in this doleful tragedy, I went next the corpse, with my eyes full of tears, bewailing my deplorable fate.

  22. Whilst she was thus bewailing herself, in comes the grand vizier, and asked her if the fishes were ready?

  23. And Madame sighed softly, as if bewailing in her tender heart the woes her obduracy caused.

  24. Ivy has spent all her time in the seclusion of her chamber, bewailing her untoward fate.

  25. Ivy bursts into petulant sobs again, bewailing her fate in having such a hard-hearted mother and wicked husband.

  26. While the Bassa was bewailing his folly, Ibrahim in his turn had opened the book, and blushed deeply as he read the words: 'The chaplet of beads has been defiled by the game of "Odd and Even.

  27. One day she was sitting on the banks of a stream bewailing her wretched lot, when she suddenly caught sight of herself in the water.

  28. Now the brothers were still seated in the court bewailing their sister, and their eyes were dim with weeping so that they could hardly see.

  29. I, thy pensive Bard, ramble in distress, bewailing the loss of thee, illustrious maid!

  30. A whole year was Abraham lamented by the inhabitants of the land; men, and women, and young children joined in bewailing him.

  31. And this delayed the people from pursuing after the Israelites; for they were engaged in bewailing their dead, and in digging graves for them.

  32. I can't imagine you walking about the world with your back hair down, bewailing a hard-hearted lover," said Tom.

  33. It 's like you to say it, and I won't waste any words bewailing myself, because I was a fool.

  34. Then they kept on bewailing the chances that had been let slip, especially Cassius, and they complained bitterly of Decimus.

  35. Well, I have long been bewailing the loss of the Republic, and that was what I was doing, though less strongly; for I had one harbour of refuge.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bewailing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    grief; howling; moaning; mourning; sorrow; wailing; woe