Only a few faithful friends were with him at the last, and when next day Mary was informed of her loss she fainted, and with every sign of becoming grief shut herself up according to the custom of royal widows for six weeks in a darkened room.
When at length he heard of it, hisgrief was so great at this proof of his loss of influence over his former pupil, that it is said to have shortened his days.
A little later Charles tried to remove his young sister Katharine from her gloomy surroundings, but her secret abstraction caused her mother such grief that she had to be restored.
The whole figure is exquisitely simple and dignified in its perfect repose; and if the beautiful marble effigy was true to life, we can understand the overwhelming grief of Spain at his loss.
Her grief found vent in a long poem or lament, in which she enumerates her many sorrows: '.
Margaret's grief was heart-rending: we are told that her sobs and cries echoed through the castle.
By a miracle both these wounded men ultimately recovered, but while we were at Enslin we heard that the poor sentry was absolutely prostrated by grief and horror over the unfortunate affair.
The majority of our songs at that Christmas dinner dealt with graves and the flowers that grew upon them, on the death of soldiers and the grief of parents.
The charming creature threw her handkerchief over her head and neck, continuing kneeling, her back towards me, and her face hid upon a chair, and repeatedly sobbed with grief and passion.
The gentlewoman stept out for some, and returning on a sudden, she observed the sweet little fugitive endeavouring to restrain a violent burst of grief to which she had given way in the little interval.
All must soon--But why add I grief to grief, and trouble to trouble?
When Watts came home, I despatched him to the house at Clapham, allowing him no time to indulge his grief or his curiosity.
A burst of grief prevented her from replying--grief that I had rarely witnessed.
It has brought a world of work and care upon you, as well as of grief to us.
It will be a weight and a grief upon me as long as life shall last.
And then came master's death--and the shock and grief of that has made her give way more than she ever did.
Grief and disappointment and broken hope might change and destroy the natural tissues and fibres of her being, but they could not alter her iron will.
Was there nothing butgrief and sorrow, then, under the sun?
Katharine kept sedulously in her cabin, devoured by grief and despair; and the once cheery colonel, full of deep sympathy for his unfortunate daughter, went about softly and sadly during the long days.
I bound my head with garlands, to the gods Pouring libations in thy house with grief Oppress'd.
Aegisthus is from home, or she dared not have indulged her grief even thus far.
But take care: excess of grief makes you utter what may bring you into trouble.
When Hercules is gone the Chorus are staggered by such a mastery of personal grief as this implies.
The village clustered on the rocks for the farewell: a grief perhaps--a performance certainly.
In the grief and terror of that time, it is not unlikely he went mad, an infirmity to which he was still liable; or perhaps a child may have taken a fancy to him and ordained him to be spared.
From these expressions of griefand praise, he would return continually to the case of the rejected pig.
He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got beyond words.
That brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown.
Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds to a light-house.
The reaction of joy was as passionate as his grief had been, and he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom.
A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and pity.
The boys stood appalled at the discovery, and Jerusha shed a torrent of tears, but whether from shame or grief or anger they had no means of knowing.
It was the same to me, and the perusal of the two letters sent by request of Jerusha was a great grief to my husband.
Diana, with blanched face and trembling with grief and excitement.
And when she soothed her friend, through all Her soothing words 'twas plain She had a sore grief of her own, A haunting in her brain.
The Earl likewise charged Richard Talbot with letters and messages of conciliation to his son Gilbert, whose estrangement was a great grief to him, arising as it did entirely from the quarrels of the two wives, mother and daughter.
He closely questioned Nathanael on every detail, and could think of nothing but the happy days he had shared with his brother, and of the grief of his parents.
He responded heartily to Master Heatherthwayte's warm pressure of the hand and piously expressed congratulation on his safety, mixed with condolence on the grief that had befallen him.
Nevertheless, Cis went on supposing and building castles that were pain and griefto her foreboding auditor.
And Susan knelt by the bed in such a paroxysm of grief that her husband, coming in unshod that he might not disturb the girl, apprehended that she had become seriously worse.
She is sick with grief and weariness," said Richard.
A more silent though not less poignant grief marked the countenances of her father and Mr. Reed.
His soul was overwhelmed with grief; but yet it was a grief which gave him more relief than pain.
If, Sir, I had not received a favourable impression of your benevolent disposition, I really should imagine that you were disposed to turn my intense grief into ridicule.
The agitating forces of bitter grief and sullen discontent were in a state of quietude; and though not really happy, yet my spirits were buoyant, rising at times to cheerfulness.
If we imbibe this spirit and act upon it, we shall then endeavour to cheer them with our sympathy in the hours of their grief and mourning, and cheerfully draw from our worldly resources to afford them relief when in want.
Their grief over his loss was virile and invigorating.
At the top of this stem opens a marvelous flower, which is moist and seems to drop tears upon the leaves, inviting them to share its grief for the doom it awaits.
As Achilles watched beside the dead body of Patroclus, so Tarsis would not leave to another the guarding of his lost friend: "In tearless grief Paolo Tarsis kept vigil through the short summer night.
There is something altogether strange about you--something that I do not understand, and that your grief for Lena does not account for; that would not make your cheeks flush, nor your eyes flash as they do now.
He was not married, so I had no aunt or cousins to whom I could attach myself, and it was a joy rather than a grief to me that I was sent to school when very young.
It was a relief to them to see her cry, for now that her grief had a natural vent in tears they hoped that it would gradually become less overwhelming.
Now John Franken had just heard with grief unspeakable the melancholy news of his master's condemnation from two soldiers of the guard, who had been sent by the judges to keep additional watch over the prisoner.
Louise de Coligny, on hearing late at night the awful news, had been struck with grief and horror.
Every one knew of the corroding grief of Nellie Dawson, and there was not a heart that did not go out in sympathy to her.
My heart was sore because of Diccon; but I could speak of that grief to her, and she would grieve with me.
She believed not that you were dead; she was distraught with grief and watching; she thought that love might find what friendship missed; she went to the forest to seek you.
Although this sad event was not unexpected, it was a source of deep grief to Queen Victoria, who had loved her aunt devotedly.
Albert felt the loss so much that we had to choke our grief down all day.
Her father had {048}treated her so affectionately during this visit at his castle that his death, which occurred a few months after her return to Ahlden, was a severe grief to her.
They became friends, and when Mr. Bright was in deep grief after the death of his young and lovely wife, Mr. Cobden made him a visit of condolence.
The first grief that darkened the home of the royal couple was caused by the death of Prince Albert's father, which occurred quite suddenly in January, 1844.
At four my beloved Albert returned with the two boys, very sad, and my grief again burst forth.
The sorrow and grief at his death are most touching, and the country mourns over him as over a father.
Grief was great throughout the kingdom at the death of Queen Caroline.
The story was of an Indian king whose temper never knew a medium, and who in prosperity was hurried into extravagance by his joy, while in adversity grief overwhelmed him with despondency.
Grief and anxiety had stamped lines of care and sorrow upon his face, which gave it what Wilberforce afterwards called "the Austerlitz look.
If such the force of grief In an old hermit parted from his nursling, What anguish must the stricken parent feel-- Bereft for ever of an only daughter.
Vain is the hope of meeting her in dreams, For slumber night by night forsakes my couch; And now that I would fain assuage my grief By gazing on her portrait here before me, Tears of despairing love obscure my sight.
He had bought another bust of Clytie, an altogether superior article in Parian marble which he carried back to the studio in triumph quite expecting to see Jill's grief vanish at sight of it, and tears give place to smiles.
The girl's lip quivered, and she turned away her head to hide her emotion, fearful that any display of grief would hurt him, and sadden his last few hours on earth.
In a moment she was on her feet facing him, grief changed to indignation, scorn and anger in her eyes, while the tear drops glistened still upon her flushed cheeks, and trembled wet and sparkling on her lashes.
