With unwearied zeal they laboured in the hospitals, for, notwithstanding every effort, the amount of attendance was lamentably deficient, and it was only possible to provide for the more pressing need of the sufferers.
So far from being able to support a long siege, the vast store-houses were more than half empty, and with respect even to ammunition and arms the supply was lamentably inadequate.
Towards the latter end of the siege, space, air, attendants, and surgical aid were all lamentably inefficient to supply even the pressing needs of the masses of wounded who were brought in.
In one quality Swift was lamentably inferior to his mother--he did not have her capacity for happiness.
And I might here say as Philip Gilbert Hamerton said of Turner, "He was lamentably unfortunate in this: throughout his whole life he never came under the ennobling and refining influence of a good woman.
But Philip Gilbert Hamerton tells us, "Fortunate in many things, Turner was lamentably unfortunate in this: that throughout his whole life he never came under the ennobling and refining influence of a good woman.
Reformed Parliaments have lamentably failed to attain it for us; and I believe will and must forever fail.
Moreover, the Royal forces were still so lamentably small that Sir Jacob Astley openly expressed a fear that the King would be captured in his sleep.
The signs of impending convulsions and chaos can now be discerned, inasmuch as the prevailing order appeareth to be lamentably defective.
Certainly, some being enormously rich and other lamentably poor, an organization is necessary to control and improve this state of affairs.
To have to defend his friends when it was Tante who stood so lamentably in need of defence had begun to work upon his nerves.
For the moment he was merely concerned with the needs of a poor old woman who had sighed lamentably over an empty paper of comfort.
The poor Whigs lamentably confess, he says, their ill usage of him, "but I mind them not.
They have been long and painfully aware, perhaps, that their strife with evil was a serious failure on the whole, and their deliverance from its power lamentably partial.
Is not the picture greatly, lamentably exaggerated, a burst of religious rhetoric?
Both loved their fellow-men; but the great difference between them was that one of them invoked the spiritual power of the Gospel of Christ, which the other lamentably ignored.
For example, while there is an increase in the number of the Christian churches, there is a lamentably steady diminution of attendance at places of religious worship.
The expectations of Mrs. Pendyce, those timid apprehensions of this meeting which had racked her all the way, were lamentably unfulfilled.
While suburban life, that living in little rows of slate-roofed houses so lamentably similar that no man of individual taste could bear to see them, he much disliked.
Had our plan been carried out even in the smallest part by a cursory survey of what lay ahead, I should not now have to tell a story which is lamentably incomplete in one respect.
He would have made his brother Duke such as he was himself,--had not his brother Duke been so lamentably thin-skinned.
Of officers the "Merrimac" had no lack, and good ones they were; but in her crew she was lamentably deficient.
They were lamentablydestitute of arms and munitions of war.
In addition to some particular cases spoken of more at length, the whole criminal code is now lamentably defective.
We have scant sympathy with the sentimentalist who dreads oppression less than physical suffering, who would prefer a shameful peace to the pain and toil sometimes lamentably necessary in order to secure a righteous peace.
This foundation had been lamentably misconceived by the Jewish people; but nevertheless, however imperfectly, they still held by it, and from them this ideal has spread throughout the Christian world.
Here also it continues to be lamentably misconceived, nevertheless it is still retained, and only needs to be recognized in its true light as a universal principle, instead of an unintelligible dogma, to become the salvation of the world.
As for himself, convert and ex-Fellow of a well-known college, he gave a strong inward assent to the judgment of some of his own leaders, that the older Catholic priests of this country are as a rule lamentably unfit for their work.
At supper, when the Sisters and their charges had departed, Father Bowles appeared, and never before had Helbeck been so lamentably aware of the absurdities and inferiorities of his parish priest.
Not that this had surprised him, as conscience had of course forbidden him to represent his nephew as other than he was in respect of that training and those qualifications in which Harry was so lamentably deficient.
It sounded ample--the tailors had not even sent in their bill yet--and yet somehow it was lamentably insufficient.
To help 'mend his Native Country, lamentably tattered, both in the upper-Leather and sole, with all the honest stitches he can take.
But what, Sir Miles, what, my dear Thomas Claypool, can we think of an education which has resulted so lamentably for both these young men?
In the late affairs in France, several officers of great previous repute had been tried and found lamentably wanting.
The young man had led a wild youth; he had fought with distinction under Marlborough; he had married a foreign lady, and mostlamentably adopted her religion.
I remember, about the time of the Crimean war, when the organisation of the English army was found to be so lamentably deficient, there was a society established in Birmingham called by some such name as "The Administrative Reform Association.
