But if she had lamented the disorders of her son she soon wept his irreparable loss; and the death of Athalaric, who, at the age of sixteen, was consumed by premature intemperance, left her destitute of any firm support or legal authority.
Instead of six legions, forty monks were embarked for that distant island, and the pontiff lamented the austere duties which forbade him to partake the perils of their spiritual warfare.
Boys of extraordinary beauty and in the flower of youth were supposed to have been drowned, or devoured by raging dogs, and their death was lamented at the harvests and other periods of the hot season.
It has often been lamented that the author never constructed the edifice which it is believed he had designed, and of which these thoughts were the splendid materials.
The discovery made him thankful, and he lamented that he had no one to thank.
A good man lamented to me that it was his lot always to be in bad society, and never to meet good men who could elevate him.
The Chinese lamentedand were crushed by his death.
Hildebrand saw and lamented the countless evils of the day, especially those which were loosening the bands of clerical obedience, and undermining the absolutism which had become the great necessity of his age.
Such, certainly, was the power they exerted in other days; and perhaps it is to be lamentedthat the frolic atmosphere diffused by those comic productions is ours no more to make merry and revel in.
I did not regret beauty, which had never been mine to lose, but I lamented the woful change from plainness to downright ugliness.
He lamented the growing ill feeling between the English and themselves, and confirmed what all old men declare, that the new class of civilian officers is inferior in every quality, except cleverness, to the old Haileybury men.
He lamented the quarrels which divided them, and was sure I was doing a good work in bringing them together.
Called also on Sir Jotendro, who lamented Mr. Gladstone’s apostasy from the principles he had proclaimed in Midlothian.
He lamented the decay of religious institutions here in Lucknow.
Many of the officers lamented the hard fate which had doomed them to service in the East, while the more fortunate regiments had been earning fame and quick promotion in the Crimea and in the recent Persian campaign.
He has already told my uncle and myself much with regard to his relationship to the Hohenwalds, and has deeply lamented that Castle Hohenwald is closed even to near connections.
Both lamented your seclusion, and wished they might convince you of their friendly regard.
And for three whole days they lamented and rent their hair, they and the Doliones.
And one with tears thus lamented to her fellow: "Wretched Alcimede, evil has come to thee at last though late, thou hast not ended with splendour of life.
But apart the maidens huddled together lamented beside the daughter of Aeetes.
Thus bitterly they lamented their fate, until the severity of the pain had well nigh exhausted their strength, and left them in a condition which will be described in the next chapter.
I see, sir," returned he of the tall figure, "that you take me for a descendant of the good and much lamented Story.
Mr. Hastings, in his defence before the House of Commons, and in the defences he has made before your Lordships, has lamented his own situation in this particular.
Over an hour the wedding-breakfast lasts, and then the great lady swims off complacently with a flap of her late lamented bridegroom's tail still sticking out of her mouth.
She was a mythical pike, one of those old-time fish about which the late lamented angler had told wonderful tales in his day.
She shewed at the same time the most pregnant marks of contempt, and again lamented the labour she had undergone, through her ignorance of the absurd taste of her guests.
And while she lamented this wrong, and allowed want of judgment to kick out at it, unjust it may have been, but true it is, that she received a still worse visitation.
It is to belamented that the reputation of the deceased so often suffers from the defective prudence of the surviving.
But Jesus neither stayed him, nor lamented when he had departed; but he seemed like unto one in whom all tears and sorrow had been swallowed up in a certain unfathomable depth of joy.
To them it seemed that, if Jesus was indeed about to be taken from them, then it mattered not whether he were taken in a chariot of fire or by whatever other means: and they lamented over him as over one already dead.
I have had so many little plagues here, that I have almost lamented that I left H----.
An eminent ecclesiastic of the Church of England not long ago characterized the present age as pre-eminently the age of doubt, and lamented that whether he took up book, or magazine, or sermon, he was confronted with some form of it.
Once she had humorously lamentedthat she had never been to Simpson's restaurant in the Strand.
Feeling very diplomatic, she lamented the fate of Speyer, and declared that never, never should she be so misguided as to visit it, and added of her own accord that the principles of restoration were ill understood in Germany.
The holy apostles themselves often lamentedtheir temptations and sorrows.
He lamented the war, and admitted the folly of keeping it up; but it was carried on by the Chippewas in self-defence, and by volunteer parties of young men, acting without the sanction of the old chiefs.
He filled many honourable offices for the republic; but lamented that they drew him away from that learning for which he says he was born, and to which alone he was devoted.
Those of the younger Dousa, whose premature death was lamented by all the learned, struck me as next in merit.
He diedlamented by many good men, but more lamented by none than by you, my Virgil.
In the same manner they report that Anacreon of Teios burned for the Samian Bathyllus; who often lamented his love to an inaccurate measure on a hollow lyre.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lamented" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
