They were to play The Martyr by D'Ennery, in which the title role, one of the showiest and most lachrymose in her repertory, was invariably acted each year by the directress.
On one of those lachrymose days of Sowinska's Janina, who was just starting for the theater, dropped in to see her.
The company had begun to play an act of a very lachrymosedrama entitled The Daughter of Fabricius.
Suddenly he seized my hands and said in a lamentable lachrymose tone: "George, my dear boy, it is my only, child!
Mrs. Gerard converted herself into the adopted mother of every lachrymose American woman and child squatted on her broad marble staircase.
Certainly lachrymose expressions of hope that England would not feel called upon to "intervene" in Germany's "just quarrel" with her neighbors were common to the point of universality in Berlin on the eve of the clash.
It is just the same with his melodramatic and lachrymose "Cromwell.
The child, seeing all the rest of the company in a lachrymose state, also lifted up his voice and wept out of sympathy.
Finally the newcomer said: "This seems a pretty lachrymose shop.
Did he, Frederick," said Mrs Thorne, in a rather less lachrymose tone.
Yes, it is, my boy, and I feel it very deeply," said Mrs Thorne in a lachrymose tone.
He sees no one on the strand, but he hears a shrill, asthmatic, wheezy, lachrymose voice, which he recognises as that of the Dutchman.
Iffland, with his lachrymosedomestic dramas, and Kotzebue's farces, with their stale witticisms, ruled the stage.
Nioche, at first, for answer, simply looked at him in lachrymose silence.
Nioche drained his pungent glass at a long draught, and looked out from eyes more lachrymose in consequence.
After this horrible scene, the Radical deputies found nothing better to do than to issue a lachrymose address inviting Paris to be patient.
Paris, deprived for eighty years of her municipal liberties, accepted as mayor the lachrymose Etienne Arago.
When poets lachrymose recite Beneath the eyes of ladies bright Their own productions, some insist No greater pleasure can exist Just so!
Deeming himself a veteran scarred In love's campaigns Oneguine heard With quite a lachrymose expression The youthful poet's fond confession.
The latter was going to be more lachrymose than ever.
And he certainly is, my child, if he is out in this gale," groaned Miss Heppy in her most lachrymose manner.
He spoke in a thinly fluting voice, with a preciseness of enunciation akin to the more feebly clerical, and with smiles which became almost lachrymose in their expressiveness as he dropped from phrase to phrase of embarrassed circumlocution.
The woman did not cheat him, and Thomas knew enough of life to respect her for this remarkable honesty; she was simply an ailing, lachrymose slut, incapable of effort.
He returned to the bar to await the return of Mrs. Drayton, whose unaccustomed absence gave rise to many sapient conjectures in the boy's lachrymose noddle.
Nothing so wearies and disgusts us, as the lachrymose tone.
This man, a lifelong tempter of Fate, had learned early in the game that the gravest errors in the category of crime came under that lachrymose heading, "wasted energy.
For many minutes he stood before the cage containing the African gazelle, fascinated by the nose and eyes of the lachrymose beast.
The lachrymose explosion came and the drum slipped down from the shoulder of Muggs with a clatter.
