Long processions of the citizens of Moscow, carrying the sacred ikons and the vessels of the Mass, left by all the gates of the city, lamenting and singing plaintive songs.
He is forever lamentingand weeping for his Eleonore!
I am glad of it; that will teach him to stoplamenting Eleonore!
In the Christian Irish legend "Imram Maelduin," the voyagers arrive at two islands, that of the lamenting people with complaining voices, and that of the laughing people.
Sometimes he wandered at night crying and lamenting his offence.
Scalchi had again gone into hysterics, and was lamenting loudly the loss of her beloved bird.
Whilst the love-sick Pan was sighing and lamenting his unfortunate fate, the winds gently swayed the reeds, and produced a murmuring sound as of one complaining.
Wherefore he to me, "Of his own greatest fault he knows the harm, and therefore it is not to be wondered at if he reprove it, in order that there may be less lamenting on account of it.
We stalked about the decks together, lamenting our forlorn condition.
One night as his end was fast approaching, he became calm and sensible, and lamenting his hard fate, and the absence of his mother, begged for a little water.
Long before the last batch, which included themselves, was lamenting the absurd discrepancy between appetite and antidote in the shape of anything to eat, the first was ravenous again.
In the evening Mrs. Ranby was lamenting in general and rather customary terms, her own exceeding sinfulness.
As soon as he had left the room, we all joined in lamenting that the blessings of health and strength should ever be produced as arguments for neglecting to secure those blessings which have eternity for their object.
His own offenses being of a different kind, instead of lamenting them, he glories in being free from those which belong to an opposite cast of character.
I ought to be lamenting what I have done; I am ratherlamenting what I miss.
It is the philosophical moralising of an old man who, plaintively lamenting the infirmities of age, casts a regretful glance on by-gone times; yet whose view on the whole is wise and optimistic.
There is that sweet little lodge with no one living in it but old George and his wife, and she was lamenting to me only yesterday that her daughters were married, and there were no young folks left in the house.
As Ariadne sat lamenting her fate, Bacchus found her, consoled her, and made her his wife.
So Kay and Gurhyr Gwalstat went upon the two shoulders of the Salmon, and they proceeded until they came unto the wall of the prison; and they heard a great wailing and lamenting from the dungeon.
And he lifted the bag in his arms, and, lamenting his bad luck, placed the boy sorrowfully behind him.
Renouncing his displeasure against Agamemnon and bitterly lamenting the miseries that had resulted from it, he called on them to proceed at once to the field.
At last he saw the feathers floating on the water, and bitterly lamenting his own arts, he buried the body and called the land Icaria in memory of his child.
He arrived too late to do more than join his friends inlamenting the loss of Florismart, and to rejoice with them in their victory over the Pagan knights.
Isoude passed her days in lamenting the absence and unknown fate of Tristram.
When they had conveyed him to his hut, and laid him upon a mat, all the spectators joined in lamenting his fate, by screaming and howling in the most piteous manner.
Its façade was turned away from the boulevard lest the susceptible artists should be confounded with the ordinary "comediens of the boulevard.
Gilles seized her by the hood, disarranged her coif, so that it fell about her shoulders, "and in his anger cursed God our Creator.
Whilst thou delightest to honour thy bride, laden with gems and shining in gold apparel, we burn with all indignation that is linked with shame, lamenting thy infamies.
So he began to bewail the ill luck of his failures and his dismal misfortunes, condemning their breach of faith, and lamenting that it had not turned out for him as they had promised him.
Then a certain wanton slave of his belly, lamentingthe prohibition against drink, adopted a deep kind of knavery, and found a new way to indulge his desires.
And thou, who hadst been better employed in lamenting thine own disgrace, know it is superfluity to bewail my witlessness; thou shouldst weep for the blemish in thine own mind, not for that in another's.
Footnote 217: The letters he sent to Buckingham are full of tender respect for the queen, lamenting her (certainly unwarrantable) neglect of reciprocity of attention, and silly squabbles in favour of her servants.
In the fourth, the father of the child acknowledges him; and in the fifth, lamenting his son's unhappy fate, he marries Leocadia.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lamenting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: grief; howling; lamentation; moaning; mourning; plaintive; querulous; sorrow; wailing
