Letters from Bordeaux bring accounts no less lamentable: the peasants are driven by hunger from their abodes into that city, and make lamentations in the streets without redress.
The common people regarded it with a mixture of respect and superstition, partly out of sympathy for the fate of its ill-starred namesake, and partly from the tales of strange sights and doleful lamentations told concerning it.
So piteous, indeed, were the lamentations of Claudia, that they forced tears even from the eyes of Roque, where they were seldom or never seen before.
Indeed, the sad lamentations of the poor knights for the loss of their mistresses sometimes makes me cry like any thing.
Poor Sancho at the same time made sad lamentations for his master's death; for he gave him up for lost, not doubting but that the lions had already got him into their clutches.
That day the dust was committed to dust, amid the lamentations of all who had known little Edward.
So, on and on, with brief intervals only, all through the loud and boisterous lamentations of the visitors over her beloved one, far into the stillness of the night.
Amazonia of Thessalonica from her tomb bids husband and children cease their lamentations and be only glad while they remember her.
The lamentations over decayed towns and perished empires remind us that the distance which separates the age of the Caesars from our own is in relation to human history merely a chapter somewhere in the middle of a great volume.
And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah; and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day.
Deeply moved, he mounts into the upper chamber of the gate-house, breaking out into loudlamentations over his son.
This intelligence, when communicated to our Winnebago children, brought forth great lamentations and demonstrations of regret.
Such of the Indians as had not attended the treaty at Rock Island and been instrumental in the cession of their country, were loud in their condemnation of the step, and their lamentations over it.
One day he saw a poor tradesman seized in his shop by two bailiffs, who thrust him into a hackney coach, despite the lamentations of his weeping wife and family, and drove off to the Marshalsea.
And no night hath ever followed day, no morning dawned on night, but hath heard the mingled sounds of feeble infant wailings and of lamentations that follow the dead and the black funeral train.
Then he had them thrust into a deep prison where were many other knights, whose groans and lamentations filled the air with doleful sounds.
Many miles farther had he gone when he found himself near a roadside castle, from whose walls there came to his ears dismal lamentations in ladies' voices.
Here they halted and looked about them, and ere long saw approaching a knight of seemly aspect, who made the bitterest lamentations as he advanced.
As he wandered through that part of Cornwall in quest of adventures, he came one day past a great rock from which dire lamentations seemed to issue.
And at the sound of her cries came the Earl of Limours, and they who journeyed with him, whom her lamentations brought out of their road.
Thereupon she raised a loud and piercing shriek, and her lamentations were much greater than they had been before; for she considered in her mind, that, had Geraint been alive, he durst not have struck her thus.
A second later, the lamentations recommenced; in higher if more liquid volume.
For the accidental breaking of far less worthwhile things, at home, she and her brothers and sisters had often been thrashed most unmercifully: Her lamentations soared to high heaven.
My husband has told me he must make the attempt," she answered steadily, "he shall not say that I kept him back with tears and lamentations from what he holds to be his duty.
In less than ten minutes the whole surrounding space was crowded with human beings, who, now that their first mute horror was over, broke out loudly into lamentations and cries of fear and despair.
The succeeding letters become day by day weaker and more dispirited, nor have the lamentations with which they are filled a sufficiently manly tone.
Select a few of the striking passages of Lamentations and show how they apply to the facts of history.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lamentations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
