The two girls, clever Lissa and thoughtful Ruth, were now grown up, and far from the childish griefs of postponed drives; they had built up a very pretty legend round the figure of Nicky these three years of the war.
With all the rest, contentment with their lot seemed chastened by griefsexperienced and gone by.
By these griefsand terrors, they say, men merit grace, provided they love God.
So he names that as the putting off of the body of sins which we ordinarily call contrition, because in these griefs the natural concupiscence is purged away.
In true griefs and terrors this sentence is perceived.
True terrors, true griefs of mind, do not allow the body to indulge in sensual pleasures, and true faith is not ungrateful to God, neither does it despise God's commandments.
His life had been crowded with griefs and with vengeful preparations--too much crowded for love.
Strange magic of thy wit and style, Which to their griefsmankind can reconcile!
It is confess'd, yet must our griefs dispute That which thine own conclusion doth refute, 10 Ere we begin.
To die nor let me wish nor fear; among My joys mix griefs, griefs that not last too long: My age be happy; and when Fate shall claim My thread of life, let me survive in fame.
The ragged crew, which are enwrapt in chains Through grates, more freedom have of sight than she, Which in them both produced such griefs and pains Too sharp and loud to be expressed by me.
My griefs are such as but to hear Would poison all thy joys, 10 The pity which thou seem'st to bear My health, thine own destroys.
But Burns lived in the valley, touched by the joys and griefs of lowly lives.
And, therefore, though the griefs and graves of men must often make me dumb, I will still dare to believe with Jesus that God is good and "Love creation's final law.
You must find in your way many troubles and griefs (and we ought to find them), but be not discouraged.
We can well be satisfied to have sorrows unutterable and griefs inexpressible, if heavenly visitants will but come to us.
And albeit hitherto life had brought me an hundredfold more reasons for thanksgiving than sorrow, meseemed that it had many griefs in store.
Wee dare not question your Lordships' proceedings; wee only desire to open our griefs where the remedy is to be expected.
Forget thy own pains and griefs in ministering to those which others have.
This is a pang, believe the experienced say Of him who speaks, which does all griefs outgo.
While thus to him her griefs Orlando showed, The lady's shining eyes with tears o'erflowed.
To have so many comrades in my care, Some little soothes the griefs that so molest.
Friendship throws a greater lustre on prosperity, while it lightens adversity by sharing in its griefs and troubles.
If our inward griefs were written on our brows, how many who are envied now would be pitied.
My griefs at home had robbed me of my appetite, and I had taken no breakfast.
Just then a light flashed through my mind, and I recalled an incident which had occurred just after the closing of the bank on the preceding day, which my private griefs had driven out of my head.
For nearly half a century Tennyson was not only a man and a poet; he was a voice, the voice of a whole people, expressing in exquisite melody their doubts and their faith, their griefs and their triumphs.
His sympathetic soul made all their joys and griefs his own.
Childhood can weep over its sorrows; it is only later griefsthat refuse the healing balm of tears.
But the griefs of childhood quickly pass away; and Arthur in a few days became calm and cheerful.
If my passion were not vehement, and my torment without comparison, I would wish my fained griefs to be laughed to scorne, and my dissembled payne rewarded with flouts.
Thus they passed the iorney in pleasaunt talk, recompensing the 2 Louers with al honest and vertuous intertainment for their griefs and troubles past.
For myself, I am to bury my griefs and indignities in the castle of Grodno.
More than this, he mourned over the multitude of privategriefs which he saw or apprehended on every side--griefs resulting from the slaughter that was going on at the seat of war--as acutely as if they had been his own losses.
For then the griefs that still come to us, when so borne, are transmitted into 'light affliction which is but for a moment.
It is something, surely, amid all the griefs and sorrows of this sorrow-haunted and devil-hunted world, to rise to this lofty region and to feel that there is a living personal joy at the heart of the universe.
In His voluntary identification with us, He has borne our griefsand carried our sorrows.
The name of Jesus tells of the child born in Bethlehem, who knows the experience of our lives by His own, and not only bends over our griefs with the pity and omniscience of a God, but with the experience and sympathy of a man.
And he did not see why his child's life should be shadowed by carrying the griefs of others.
It helps the cold griefs by the joints, taking away the pains, and warms the cold part, being fast bound to the place, after a bathing or sweating in a hot house.
The water of Borrage and Bugloss distilled when their flowers are upon them, strengthens the heart and brain exceedingly, cleanses the blood, and takes away sadness, griefs and melancholy.
The decoction of the common Tansy, or the juice drank in wine, is a singular remedy for all the griefs that come by slopping of the urine, helps the stranguary and those that have weak reins and kidneys.
It is very comfortable to the stomach in all the cold griefs thereof, helps both retention of meat, and digestion, the decoction or powder being taken in wine.
This is an herb of Venus, and excellent for the womb to strengthen and remedy all the cold griefs of it, as Plantain doth the hot.
The seed is conducing to all cold griefs of the head and stomach, bowels, or mother, as also the wind in them, and helps to sharpen the eye-sight.
And if of the former griefs any parts remain, the same medicine after twenty days, is to be applied again.
It is helpful in all diseases and griefs of the spleen, and melancholy that arises from the windiness of the hypochondria.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "griefs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
