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Example sentences for "great sorrow"

  • A just man, and upright, but with a great sorrow.

  • Mrs. Clive seemed a woman with a great sorrow.

  • Now it seemed to symbolize a great sorrow: to be in subtle harmony with that of the girl at his side.

  • Alas, said Sir Percivale, I had never so great sorrow as I have had for losing of yonder knight.

  • And then he said: Gawaine, Gawaine, ye have set me in great sorrow, for I have great doubt that my true fellowship shall never meet here more again.

  • When Queen Isoud understood that Sir Tristram was in prison she made as great sorrow as ever made lady or gentlewoman.

  • But when Sir Ector saw Sir Lionel, then made he great sorrow.

  • So Balin and the damosel rode into a forest, and there met with a knight that had been a-hunting, and that knight asked Balin for what cause he made so great sorrow.

  • When Morgan le Fay saw him dead she made great sorrow out of reason; and then she let despoil him unto his shirt, and so she let him put into a tomb.

  • It is a great sorrow to him to lose all he had in this horrible way, but he bears it with wonderful faith and patience, and says he never prayed for his son's life after he went into action.

  • I can not tell you with what tender sympathy I think of your return to your desolate home; the agonizing meeting with your bereaved boys; the days and nights that have to be lived through, face to face with a great sorrow.

  • To my great sorrow we found, on reaching the school, that they could not take another one, as they were already overflowing.

  • And the gods were, therefore, in great sorrow.

  • King Dhritarashtra, on hearing the evil news of the death of the Pandavas, wept in great sorrow.

  • So the time wore on, and not one in the minister's happy household knew that each day that passed so peacefully over them was leaving one less between them and a great sorrow.

  • In the silence of her brother's sick-room, Graeme looked a great sorrow in the face.

  • She declared to herself that it was well to be roused from sloth, even by a great sorrow, so that she could find work to do.

  • On the morrow the knights armed themselves, and bade farewell to King Arthur and his queen, and there was much weeping and great sorrow.

  • With that the damsel departed in great sorrow.

  • Alas,' cried Galahad and Perceval, 'that is great sorrow to hear.

  • I have already confessed it, but with my great sorrow is mingled a wicked sentiment.

  • She needs but one thing to make her voice perfect," he said, "and that is a great sorrow.

  • But now she has flown away, leaving a little child for me to take care of, and I am in great sorrow.

  • But Shell and the girl were married, and escaped from the town to a little house in the fields, where they lived in great sorrow for a week.

  • His first wife was in great sorrow, and wept every day.

  • But, as often happens immediately after the occurrence of a great sorrow or recovery from a serious illness, his whole being seemed to undergo a change.

  • Even a great sorrow, like this one, does not change us in a single day.

  • It is seen to follow a great sin, and to be the--terribly mistaken--refuge of a great sorrow.

  • And later, in the midst of great sorrow, she saw intended significance in the occurrence.

  • You are not yet eighteen, and have been capable of a great sorrow!

  • In my mind, for we Irish imagine always, I have made you a stately lady, perhaps not very strong, who is much alone and has had a great sorrow, who helps the world because it is good to help.

  • Towards autumn she had one evening seen him enter, with red eyes and in the agony of a great sorrow; his brother, Abbe Jouve, was dead.

  • Over Paris a great sorrow seemed to be brooding, pending the arrival of a fresh squall.

  • Within her soul, however, a great sorrow lingered, a heart-burning and a consciousness of a gloomy blank.

  • I must then express my great sorrow that I cannot oblige the Duke.

  • I have had a great sorrow since we met," she said.

  • That you should have given yourself to one whom I could not think to be worthy of you was, of course, a great sorrow.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    great cause; great consequence; great contrast; great crime; great deale; great fancy; great heat; great help; great houses; great intelligence; great man; great meeting; great necessity; great orator; great part; great practical; great respect; great rock; great stone; great store; great throb; great tree; great variety; great victory; greatly diminished; greatly reduced