Beaumanoir in the thirteenth century laments the fact that every castellany in France had a differing law of its own, and Glanville still earlier makes a similar complaint of England.
Philolaches in Plautus laments his being debauch'd; and dilates upon the Advantages of Virtue, and Regularity.
Antigone amongst her other Misfortunes laments her dying Young and Single, but says not one word about Haemon.
At New-York his regret is that a railroad has destroyed the beauty of Hoboken, and at New Orleans he laments that marriages between whites and Creoles are interdicted.
One man, at the expense of his villa, is made proconsul of Asia; a second purchases Syria with his wife's jewels; and a third laments that he has exchanged his paternal estate for the government of Bithynia.
St. Peter Baronius, who laments the ruin of this Christian monument, has diligently preserved the inscriptions and basso-relievos.
Yet indeed, although he tries to cheer others, he laments long and deeply himself, as many of his letters show.
So popular were they that when Cicero was a child every Roman boy committed them to memory, as our children do their catechism, and the great orator laments that in the course of his lifetime this practice had become obsolete.
This poetry was essentially chivalric; ideal love for a chosen lady, the laments of disappointed affection, or the charms of spring, formed the constant subjects of their verse.
I want to see whether he anywhere laments over the desolation of his system.
One laments that his mind had so hard a lot; but every real man must, in one way or another, fight a great battle.
The woman laments alone, even as another Marah laments alone in a similar row on another ridge.
Petrarch made the copy, it unfortunately was lost, as Petrus Victorius laments in one of his Epistles(672).
In the Aulularia of Plautus, when Euclio finds his treasure gone he laments in the usual manner.
Besides waste of valuable time, much money was thrown away by these ladies, and the knight laments that one woman's dress would have clothed many poor.
Who now laments but Palamon, compelled No more to try the fortune of the field!
The author laments the indifference shown by poets to the natural phenomena of his day.
So, too, in laments for the dead, the superior brevity and simplicity of Martial bear the palm away.
The author last cited laments the abuses committed upon these occasions.
This evil has been increasing for a long series of years; and honest Stow laments the retrenchments of the grounds appropriated for martial pastimes which had begun to take place in his day.
It is ranked with hunting and hawking, and opposed to dice and card playing by an old Scotch poet, who laments that the latter had in great measure superseded the former.
Yet he constantly laments how isolated he is, mainly by reason of the poverty of his nature, his want of social talent, of animal heat, and of sympathy with the commonplace and the humdrum.
She has still mysterious rents in her skirts, got no one knows how; and her mother still laments over her aptitude for rags, and wishes she could be brought to see the beauty of unstained apparel.
Laments over the degeneracy of pantomime and the decline of the red-hot poker business still occur, but honourable exception is invariably made on behalf of the famous Vokes family.
Sir Gorgius's main regret was that he had never been at a public school; the Colonel, who was once at Eton, laments that he suffers from a neglected education.
She envies the handkerchief he has kissed; she laments that she could not watch his receding ship; she would have "broke her eye-strings" to see the last of it.
She almost forgets herself, and laments only for me!
I understand he very much laments the loss of a college education, which the miser his father could very well have bestowed upon him, had not his heart been as contracted as the mouth of his purse.
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