Vulgar plaints of a vulgar jealous person: to what details do I apply my imagination?
Another less metaphorical reflection: the Russian has certainly made positive advances and in his plaints the magic word of marriage must, like an echo, have returned and reverberated.
Miss Grieve's plaints never grow less, though we are sometimes at a loss for appropriate quotations to match them.
Many times each day she is wont to sink into one low chair, and, extending her feet in another, close her eyes and murmur undistinguishable plaints which come to us in a kind of rhythmic way.
And then, having now perceived whither all these plaints or fears tended, she would solve the more or less knotty problem at a stroke.
The girl, though, with loud plaints jumped to catch it, and the boy again caught it first and tossed it again and again, the little girl all the while vainly attempting to recover it.
There is much to be said against the plaintsof this citation, whether one consider its nationalistic implications or its insinuation that Brazil’s Romantic period lacked genuineness.
Thus they out of their plaints new hope resume To find whom at the first they found unsought.
The Gentlewomen which wayted vpon hir, bewayled the rufull state of their Maystresse, whose plaints and scriches were heard throughout the palace, whereof the brute and rumor was great.
I passe not I how men affected be, Nor who commend, or discommend my verse; It pleaseth me if I my plaints rehearse, And in my lynes if shee my loue may see.
There sighs and plaints and wailings uncontrolled The dim and starless air resounded through; Nor at the first could I from tears withhold.
Shrill are the plaints of Louvet; his thin existence all acidified into rage, and preternatural insight of suspicion.
This comic sadness was depicted after the manner of the Psalms in "The Plaints of a Jew.
Joel Jacoby, the son of a strictly orthodox father, introduced into his "Plaints of a Jew" many untrue outpourings of fantastic sentimentality and a feigned sense of pain; but some of his elegies are ardent and beautifully constructed.
Yet he, whose heart['s] of adamant or flint, My tears nor plaintscould mollify a whit.
Should I in pity of thy plaintsor thee, Accursed Barabas, base Jew, relent?
Chastity and beauty, which were deadly foes, Live reconcilèd friends within her brow; And had she pity to conjoin with those, Then who had heard the plaints I utter now?
TO DELIA I Unto the boundless ocean of thy beauty Runs this poor river, charged with streams of zeal, Returning thee the tribute of my duty, Which here my love, my youth, my plaints reveal.
And soon, what followed--plaints about her own headaches--completed the business.
Bassompierre had to be appealed to, debts had to be paid, some of them of that dismal and dingy order called "debts of honour;" ignoble plaints and difficulties became frequent.
But there was one person who heard all the plaintsand all the outbursts of bitterness and despair which Janet was never tempted to pour into any other ear; and alas!
There is no nature of man so obdurate, which on hearing thy groans, and thy long plaints of misery, would not let fall the tear.
Time, however, has joined Florio and Annabella in the fetters of wedlock, and the plaints of the swain are now changed.
Or mine exclaims, that have surcharg'd the air With ceaseless plaints for my deceased son?
Think you to move with lamentable plaints Persephone or Pluto's ghastly spirits, To make him live that's locked in his tomb, And wand'reth in the centre of the earth?
Love works thy heart within his fire, And in my tears doth firm the same; And if I tempt it will retire, And of my plaints doth make a game.
Let now your blisse be turned into bale, And into plaints convert your joyous playes, And with the same fill every hill and dale.
Chastity and Beauty, which were deadly foes, Live reconciled friends within her brow; And had she Pity to conjoin with those, Then who had heard the plaints I utter now?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plaints" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
