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Example sentences for "sorrow and"

  • They wept hot tears as in the keen personal pang of sorrow and fellow-feeling and impotence to help.

  • It cannot also be avoided by mere inaction or suicide, for we are continually being forced to action by our nature, and suicide will but lead to another life of sorrow and rebirth.

  • Sorrow and grief of heart Makes him speak fondly, like a frantic man; Yet he is come.

  • I wept bitterly, but feeling at once deeply grieved and strengthened by sorrow and compassion, I began again to labour with all my strength.

  • With difficulty did he ascend the left side of the cavern, and reach a spot where the ground was level, and where they were sleeping, exhausted with fatigue, sorrow and anxiety.

  • The Blessed Virgin was overwhelmed with sorrow and love.

  • Let me in To expiate my sorrow and my sin.

  • Why does that cold, forbidding air Give damps of sorrow and despair?

  • Eager for vivid emotions, she seeks them with an insatiable avidity; and, rather than feel nothing, she prefers painful emotions, finding a certain secret charm even in the fits of sorrow and pains of her imagination.

  • Woman is destined, as well as man, to meet with days of sorrow and bitterness, when a firm, patient will must be her only port of safety.

  • She was simply an overflowing fountain of goodness, and it was a natural to her to hurry to a scene of sorrow and suffering as it is for most people to desire to stay away.

  • The secret was to bear, to endure, not stoically nor stolidly, but with a quiet inclination of the will to sorrow and pain, that were not so bitter after all, when one abode faithfully in them.

  • But I will not destroy it, because it may help some soul that may come after me, into whose hands it may fall, to struggle on in the middle of sorrow and darkness.

  • I too thank the Mother of Sorrows for being near me in my sorrow and in my madness!

  • She looked the very image of sorrow and despair.

  • Lastly, if you are willing to be guided by one who gives you good advice, I would bid you despise a small part of your dominions which is ever the parent of sorrow and bloodshed, in order to reign in safety over the rest.

  • After centuries of sorrow and degradation," said Stephen, "let it not be said that you acquired your right only to create a baron or a squire.

  • After centuries of sorrow and degradation, it should never be said, that we had no sympathy with the sad and the oppressed.

  • Her memory wandered to their meeting in Westminster, and all the scenes of sorrow and of softness of which it was the herald.

  • Teach me, O my Master, in the day of sorrow and tribulation, to understand the meaning of the cross, to know the value of my sufferings, to grasp the power and the secret of Thy rod and Thy staff.

  • But it is difficult, when oppressed by sorrow and affliction, to lift the heart and mind to things above.

  • We know that our Saviour took upon Himself the cross of sorrow and suffering, not alone that He might satisfy for our transgressions and be our ransom from bondage, but also that He might be unto us an example and a leader.

  • Then even temperate minds were attack'd by sorrow and fury; Each one reflected, and swore to avenge all the injuries suffer'd, And to atone for the hitter loss of hopes twice defrauded.

  • The blackest fiend that glooms the midnight air of hell, bleached through the merciful purgation of sorrow and loyalty, may become a white angel and be drawn into heaven.

  • I was therefore at once abandoned to sorrow and to poverty; a small legacy from the count de Bernini being all that now remained to me.

  • With respect to Ferdinand, who yet pined in sorrow and anxiety in his dungeon, the rigour of the marquis's conduct was unabated.

  • He was gloomy and silent; their efforts to amuse him seemed to excite displeasure rather than kindness; and when the repast was concluded, he withdrew to his own apartment, leaving his daughters in a state of sorrow and surprise.

  • And we loved one another, my Sorrow and I, and we loved the world about us; for Sorrow had a kindly heart and mine was kindly with Sorrow.

  • And when we sang together, my Sorrow and I, our neighbors sat at their windows and listened; for our songs were deep as the sea and our melodies were full of strange memories.

  • And when we walked together, my Sorrow and I, people gazed at us with gentle eyes and whispered in words of exceeding sweetness.

  • And when we conversed, my Sorrow and I, our days were winged and our nights were girdled with dreams; for Sorrow had an eloquent tongue, and mine was eloquent with Sorrow.


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