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Example sentences for "mourn"

Lexicographically close words:
mounting; mountings; mounts; mourant; mourir; mourned; mournefull; mourner; mourners; mourneth
  1. In the deepest dungeon of the castle of Najarra she was left to mourn over her unparalleled misery.

  2. They seemed to be aware of the hopelessness of their struggle, and to mourn in anticipation of the moment when they should faint in fight, and unrelieved darkness should lord it over the fields of the heavens.

  3. We Europeans fight a battle, leave fifty thousand dead or dying by inches on the field, and a hundred thousand to mourn them, desolate; but we are civilised and Christians.

  4. The young man felt the bitterness of remorse all his days; and the sister, when she heard the fate of her little brother whom she had promised to protect and cherish, wept many tears, and never ceased to mourn him till she died.

  5. Her life was so hidden from the world, that few knew her except the children and the house-dog, and some birds which were pets, and they mourn her loss.

  6. If your child dies before leaving childhood, you will undoubtedly mourn as sincerely as did Rachel, and your good minister will come to comfort you.

  7. But the bare boughs and broken boards on her side signify that her hopes are wholly wrecked by the death of the duke, for whom she doth mourn without hope of comfort or redress.

  8. To mourn excessively for the departed as lost," continued Dr.

  9. Did not the ancient patriarch mourn for his son as dead?

  10. Let friend forbear to mourn and weep, While in the dust I sweetly sleep; This frailsome world I left behind, A crown of glory for to find.

  11. This number comprised forty-three heads of families; as many widows, and one hundred and fifty-five fatherless children, were left to mourn the fatality.

  12. There were few families that did not mourn a relative, and some of the older inhabitants remember to have heard their elders speak of it with a shudder.

  13. Well might I mourn that He was gone Whose light I hailed when first it shone, When, breaking forth as nature's own, It showed my youth 1842.

  14. Awl the mourning there iz in this wurld was introduced bi man; man warnt made tew mourn any more than he was made to crawl.

  15. Twas the old scene of the dolly repeated, The boy had to manhood grown; A hand crushed his plaster idol And left him to mourn all alone.

  16. She heard the mourn of wolves, the hoot of an owl, the distant cry of a panther, weird and wild.

  17. The murmuring of insects seemed augmented into a roar; the mourn of wolf and scream of cougar made her start; the rising wind moaned like a lost spirit.

  18. I was terribly shocked for the moment, as you may imagine; but, dear me, I was living just then among scenes as terrible and shocking, and I had little time to spare to mourn over poor Rupert.

  19. Again had the Spaniards bitter cause to mourn over the victory of those who called themselves their allies.

  20. She would go to London to see her sister; to nurse her if she were sick; to mourn for her if she were dead.

  21. Even in the glorious year of her son's restoration sorrow pursued her, and she had to mourn a daughter and a son.

  22. This done, he withdraws and leaves them there to condole their misery, and to mourn under their distress: so all that day they spent their time in nothing but sighs and bitter lamentations.

  23. Also this Giant hath wounded me as well as thee, and also cut off the bread and water from my mouth, and with thee I mourn without the light.

  24. Indeed, it says their wives shall mourn apart, but it saith not, they shall do so together.

  25. And again, These are they that mourn for the abominations that are done among men (Eze 9:4).

  26. And how bitterly did David mourn for his son, who died in his wickedness?

  27. All those souls, therefore, that shall be counted worthy to have this look shall mourn apart, or by themselves, when they have it.

  28. I mourn our common bereavement, for thy death this day has been a blow to all of us, even to the strongest men.

  29. In Turin," begins the ballad, "counts and barons and noble dames mourn for the death of the Baron Lodrone.

  30. On the death of a chief or any exalted person, the female relatives of the deceased assemble to mourn for a specific period, and betray their sorrow by loud sobs and lamentations by day and dances by night.

  31. Poor soul, lost soul, dying soul, what a hard heart have I that I cannot mourn for thee!

  32. I cannot tell of visions and dreams as my friend Christiana can, nor know I what it is to mourn for my refusing of the counsel of those that were good relations.

  33. They shall look upon him whom they have pierced, and mourn for him as one mourneth for his only son, and they shall be in bitterness for him as one is in bitterness for his first-born.

  34. No intimate, this woman that is dead: Mourn not too much!

  35. Children: he made his widow mourn too much By this endowment of the other Bride-- Nor understood that gold and jewelry Adorn her in a figure, not a fact.

  36. I mourn for thy sake, in this altered lot.

  37. Here I live In trusting ease; and here you drive At causing me to lose what most Yourself would mourn for had you lost!

  38. John Sherman:-- I mourn with the family and kindred of General Sherman.

  39. It seems providential that the country has not to mourn the loss of an army through the loss of the mind of a General into whose hands were committed the vast responsibilities of the command in Kentucky.

  40. Our countrymen mourn one of our and the world's greatest heroes, but yours is the deeper grief for the loss of the father, brother, friend.

  41. The door was slammed to with violence, and the enraged woman retired, disgusted with 'Yankee' habits, to mourn over the loss of her plump pair of chickens.

  42. As once his fellow soldiers we mourn universally for the dead commander, whose great heart made us all his own and made his own virtues seem to us like personal benefactions.

  43. Mrs. Endicott and I mourn with you and for you.

  44. I--I alone would mourn the flowers That fade in Love's deserted bowers!

  45. His soul did mourn and grieve and pray to God continually, that it might be delivered from the mortality, corruption, and temptation which it felt in its fleshly tabernacle.

  46. Keep your hearts as true and close to God as possible, and make sure of his love, that you may know you have not an unregenerate, miserable soul to mourn for, and then all other grief is the more curable and more tolerable.

  47. By an ill end and formal reason; when we mourn not for sin as sin, but as one sin hindereth another, or as it marred some ill design.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mourn" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ache; agonize; bemoan; bewail; bleed; compassionate; cry; deplore; dirge; discomfort; dismay; distress; fret; grieve; keen; knell; lament; moan; mope; mourn; pain; pine; regret; repine; sigh; sorrow; cry; deplore; dirge; discomfort; dismay; distress; fret; grieve; keen; knell; lament; moan; mope; mourn; pain; pine; regret; repine; sigh; sorrow