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Example sentences for "bewails"

Lexicographically close words:
bevy; bewail; bewaile; bewailed; bewailing; bewar; beware; bewayle; beweep; bewept
  1. The Finnish Mataleena, going to the well for water, sees the reflection of her face, and bewails her lost charms.

  2. He is warned by an angel, at the expiration of that period, that he will lose her if he does not go back, bewails himself to his patron, and is conveyed home in a sleep.

  3. She bewails the lost beauty of her hands, and is remanded to the cavern for another seven years.

  4. As often as the soul is affected with hearty remorse for sin, she bewails herself, and sends up secret groans to the throne of mercy.

  5. It bewails the loss of Tulan, and the bard seeks in vain for any joyous theme to inspire his melody, reflecting on all that has bloomed in glory and now is gone forever.

  6. In a similar strain as in the last poem, the bard bewails the briefness of human life and friendships.

  7. And then he bewails the fact that when he arrives in the Highlands he will have to be contented 'with an acre or two of oaten cake, a hogshead of Milk, and a Cloaths basket of Eggs morning, noon, and night.

  8. He is not aware, however, that Fidessa has beguiled him, since he openly regrets she is not present to escape with him, and he again bewails the fact that Una was not as pure as his fancy painted!

  9. The maiden goes to the pasture-ground, embraces her variegated cow, leans on her neck and bewails her fate.

  10. Kai Khosru bewails the loss of his brother Firud all the night through, till the cock crows; when morning comes he thinks of avenging him.

  11. Yet another, blest with children, mournfully bewails the misdeeds of son or daughter.

  12. It is a star the lover admires, or it is the nightingale who bewails his sad lot.

  13. But the lady's heart has been already won by Sala, the son of the miller of Tardetz, and she bitterly bewails being "sold like a heifer.

  14. The Wife of Some Great Officer Bewails His Absence~ Shrill chirp the insects in the grass; All about the hoppers spring.

  15. Thereupon Sandrina announces to Nardo her intention of leaving the place to escape the attentions of the Podesta, and complains of the faithlessness of men; Ramiro entering, bewails the inconstancy of women, and Nardo the cruelty of Serpetta.

  16. Minka, left alone, bewails her fate and wants to stab herself, whereupon De Nangis suddenly appears in search for the King.

  17. Far from loathing his father, he only bewails the hardness of him, for whose love he craves in vain.

  18. She bewails her fate, in having at the behest of Thoas, King of the Scythians, to sacrifice two strangers, who have been thrown on his shores.

  19. When the dead hero is brought to the Giebichung's hall, Gutrune bewails him loudly.

  20. In the first poem Guðrún incites her sons to avenge their sister and then bewails her many misfortunes.

  21. His wife bewails her troubles in the following words (ib.

  22. Not one among ye,' cried Hacket, who was spokesman for the rest, 'not one among ye bewails this bloody deed more bitterly than do we.

  23. Wherein art thou better than one who bewails himself for his mistress, if thou lament thy exercises and porticoes and comrades, and all such pastime?

  24. For if to be solitary it sufficeth to be alone, then say that Zeus is solitary in the conflagration,[1] and bewails himself.

  25. No deadly pest its purity assails, To spread infection o'er your hills and vales, Save when a guilty race, great sins bewails In expiating.

  26. Here one bewails a brother's fate, There one a sire demands, Cut off, alas!

  27. Spain weeps her wounded, wails a lost navy; Fails them, bewails them, Says them an Ave.

  28. Dumas quotes the Marquis d'Argenson's memoirs, where the courtier of 1750 bewails the degeneracy of the times neither more nor less than does the dramatic author of a century later.

  29. This sentence recalls Augustine's own experience as a boy, which he bewails in his Confessions.

  30. Yet, if the disasters he bewails had been lamented after the Christian religion had been diffused, and had begun to prevail, is there a man of our adversaries who would not have thought that they were to be imputed to the Christians?

  31. For seven months Orpheus bewails the death of Eurydice and regards all other living creatures with indifference.

  32. This most precious gift of heaven to suffering souls is denied to the man who here bewails his dismal fate.

  33. At the contemplation of this extremity of hopeless misery the poet drops the plural number, in which he has been personating his people, as abruptly as he assumed it a few verses earlier, and bewails the dread calamities in his own person.

  34. Nevertheless in weaving a wreath of imagination round the sufferings it bewails it cannot but clothe them with a rich significance.

  35. Zion bewails her friendless condition, declaring, "there is none to comfort me.

  36. It must not be forgotten that the phrase which gives rise to these ideas concerning the debt of guilt occurs in the doleful Book of Lamentations, and at the close of an elegy that bewails the awful fate of Jerusalem in the strongest language.

  37. In deploring the losses suffered by the daughter of Zion the elegist bewails the failure of her prophets to obtain a vision from Jehovah.

  38. Dallington more specifically bewails the fact that the traveller finds a "great scarcitie" of such tutors, and directs him to a certain M.

  39. A fifth, night and day, bewails his evil fate.

  40. The mother bewails her boy: "Poor little one!


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bewails" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.