For the ferocious personalities of Churchill, the coarse-fibred friend of his youth, we have a sad strain of lamentation over the growing luxury and effeminacy of the age.
The palace was filled with crying and lamentation and the news of his death reached the King, and the city-people wept, even those at their prayers and women at household cares and the schoolchildren shed tears for Bin-Khakan.
Indeed, the voice of lamentationthat the loved ones of God and His devoted servants have raised on the occasion of this terrible adversity, this grievous calamity, has caused the fire of His bereavement to rage more fiercely than ever.
Then he bemoaned his fortune with tears, and by the sound of his own lamentation was lulled asleep among the litter.
Samson, Benjamin the copyist composed a lamentation written in a most mournful strain.
But this lamentation is followed by a wine-song, one of the jolliest and wildest parodies for the feast of Purim.
By chance, her house was near the road where the mournful procession was passing, and the sound of lamentation came to the ears of the hardhearted Anaxarete, whom now an avenging Deity pursued.
And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee, saying, What city is like Tyrus, like the destroyed in the midst of the sea?
This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament her: the daughters of the nations shall lament her: they shall lament for her, even for Egypt, and for all her multitude, saith the Lord GOD.
But why have I not yet remarked anything of funeral bells, knockers hung with black, bottles of tears, and lamentation in the city?
Not merely lamentation over poor Liana, persecuted by all the nightly arrows of destiny, entered like iron into his open heart, but also amazement at the gloomy intermingling of fate with his young life.
I set aside here the lamentation of the city, together with the rejoicing of the same over the new perspective.
Order thy surroundings on earth in such a way That they may minister to the desire of thy heart; [For] at length that day of lamentation shall come, Wherein he whose heart is still shall not hear the lamentation.
Groaning and lamentationare everywhere in the land.
The lamentation of Andromache, Hecuba, and Helen, with the solemnities of the funeral.
But sit thou on this seat; and in our hearts, Though filled with grief, let us that grief suppress; For woful lamentation nought avails.
When this was done, Isis threw herself upon the chest, and made at the same time such loud and terrible cries of lamentationover it, that the younger of the king's sons who heard her was frightened out of his life.
Moderate lamentationis the right of the dead: excessive grief the enemy to the living.
In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation and weeping Matt.
Defn: The act of one who weeps; lamentation with tears; shedding of tears.
Saint Patrick finds an aged Pagan woman making great lamentation above a tomb which she believes to be that of her son.
At last they agreed to go to his tent without their arms, dressed only in their tunics, and there with weeping and lamentation offered themselves to him and bade him deal with them as with ungrateful and wicked men.
In Ramah was there a voice of lamentation and weeping and great mourning.
The Lord, in plain language, says: I know that there is great suffering in Ramah--much lamentation and bitter weeping.
We came to a fair large River--doubtless the Ancient River Adonis, so famous for the Idolatrous Rites performed here inLamentation of Adonis.
Patuone and Nene immediately took up the body of the fallen chief and made great lamentation over him, and have since placed his body between the bodies of their own relations as a mark of respect.
This news caused mourning andlamentation along our beach, and filled all the Europeans with dismay.
The poet speaks in tones of bitterest lamentation when he sees succumb to Fate all that is bright and fresh and beautiful.
One night he heard a voice of lamentation below, and anxious to ascertain from whom and whence it proceeded, he stole down to the spot and listened.
But I am in no hurry; she wearies me with her everlasting lamentation for Herbert.
All this lamentation touched the kind-hearted candidate and linked itself in his feelings to other lamentations and other sorrows.
Then the Duke, finding that he was himself the cause of all this woe, threw himself upon the two dead lovers, and, with great lamentation and weeping, kissed both of them several times and asked their forgiveness.
We may be sure there was much lamentation and grumbling at St. Alban's when Abbot John de Maryns forbade any monk, who from infirmity could only be carried on a litter, from entering the garden at all.
Then, indeed, as the vast crowds succeeded each other like the ceaseless waves of an incoming sea, the bitter wail of universal lamentation rang through the halls and galleries of the palace.
