These things are so dreadfully patched and darned," said Peter, in a lamentable tone.
Thereupon the nine blind men on the opposite shore set up a lamentable wail, crying, "What has happened, O Khoja?
No lamentable anthem pealing high Can match the gift of pious minstrelsy.
In the Lyra Innocentium and the miscellaneous poems are many verylamentable verses.
Ah lamentable ruine from roialtie to miserable calamitie, procured by them cheefelie that should haue beene the pillers of the kings estate, and not the hooked engins to pull him downe from his throne!
She ought to cultivate the penetration to look beneath the surface in so important a matter, and then fewer lamentablemistakes would be made.
Has not my son been taken from me through the baseness that has been practised against his sister, and the lamentable spectacle afforded him by my own powerlessness?
It seemed to her lamentable that she should have to sit down in the overheated, sticky air of the office among all those clerks, and write.
His life, he felt, was full of lamentable privations: other people had everything, he had nothing.
Having finished it but not having drawn a word of comment from Daniel, she again took up the violin and played a rather lamentable selection by Wieniawski.
It was, indeed, a lamentable condition of moral darkness; but the error, though grievous, has its attractive side.
There were also women of the lower orders looking stupefied, and giving themselves lamentable airs; and well-dressed ladies, carelessly dragging their silk gowns along the floor.
People passed to and fro, bareheaded, running, and laughing; and with the bawling noise of the crowd, was mingled the lamentable strains of the barrel organs.
At the back, against the wall, hung some lamentable rags, petticoats and trousers, puckered against the bare plaster.
Then seizing the unconscious Therese in his arms, he capsized the skiff with his foot, as he fell into the Seine with the young woman, whom he supported on the surface, whilst calling in a lamentable voice for help.
In the mind's eye they saw themselves wandering about the arcade in a lamentable fashion, dreaming of colossal games at dominoes.
The dealer in imitation jewelry pointed out the emaciated profile of the young widow to each of her customers, as an interesting and lamentable curiosity.
It was a lamentable mistake, for had the Russian forces been driven pell-mell from the field, Sebastopol might have surrendered, and thousands of brave and valuable lives on both sides might have been saved.
There was no difficulty in obeying these orders, for the attraction had ceased, the sun shone forth in all his glory, and the shepherd vanished with a lamentable scream.
Among the other poems thus read by Raleigh to Spenser at Kilcolman was the 'lamentable lay' to which reference had just been made--the piece in praise of Elizabeth which bore the name of Cynthia.
The contrast between the beginning and the end of his career, the glorious and high path entered upon, and so soon and suddenly quitted for the pay of the placeman and the bitterness of the bigot, cling to his memory with a lamentable effect.
Never did despotic power create a spectacle more glorious at its commencement or more lamentablein its issue.
You may hold him up as a lamentable victim of that species of wretched farming which, under the baneful shadow of protection, could do no more than render British agriculture by far the finest and the most productive in the world.
They are lamentable objects; and some, when they are fully seen, are dramatically ludicrous, for the whelming mud from which they still take flight has half unclothed them.
These lamentablelanes are staked out with corpses.
It seems to me that he has suddenly smelt the sign--the pathetic, lamentable appeal of the dead.
Without being noticed by the two men I leave the drama narrowly developing in this lamentable corner and its jostling and traffic and hubbub.
The seizure of the Spanish treasure-ships, with its lamentable catastrophe, took place on the 5th of October.
Stewart said to him, "May I take the liberty of asking why, under so hot a fire, and after so lamentable an accident, you have attached so much importance to a circumstance apparently so trifling?
No, madam; thislamentable story happened before I was born.
The Diet had strenuously endeavored to have added to that treaty some conditions to which they supposed the lamentable state of the country would have extorted an acquiescence, even from the heart of a conqueror's power.
It is easy to capture a meeting of honest-hearted veterans by such lamentable prestidigitation as was exhibited on Fast Day, and to pass any resolutions desired, by appealing to their enthusiasm.
That it was lamentable we had so little; and that instead of taking faith for the rule of their conduct, men amused themselves with trivial devotions, which changed daily.
That it was lamentable to see how many people mistook the means for the end, addicting themselves to certain works, which they performed very imperfectly, by reason of their human or selfish regards.
I met one the other day, who had a most lamentable state of things to report.
How lamentable would be your situation and mine, if, while so near the grave, we were deprived of that hope, which takes from it all its gloom.
Susan did not require too much encouragement to tell her lamentable tale, and Aunt Polly in return advised her to leave her place when her month was up, informing the family of her intention, that they might supply themselves.
