Then, giving way to the desire which possesses the wretched to confide their woes to others, she began to relate her story.
He was about to exclaim: "'Tis true, I had lost my faith, but I thought I had found it again in the compassion which the woes of the world set in my heart.
And this fear explained his returning affection for the people, the concern which he displayed respecting socialism, and the Christian solution which he offered to the woes of earthly life.
Alarmed by this mysterious warning, the unhappy youth accordingly shook off the dust from his feet and returned to London, where he confided his woes to his beloved and generous employer.
The pall Of Dis, I cried, should be the hall Where sad proud men of men should meet and sing The woes of that defeat ambitions bring Hurled from the last vain fight against the wall.
THE SLAVE WOMAN Her eyes are dark with unknown deeps, Old woes and new despair, Her shackled spirit feels the thong That breaks her body bare.
In his play of Richard the Third, he seems to deduce the woes of the house of York from the curses which Queen Margaret had vented against them; and he could not give that weight to her curses, without supposing a right in her to utter them.
I doubt it not; and all these woesshall serve For sweet discourses in our time to come.
But," with a vicious glance at Barbara, "I would condemn the parents who would bring their children up in a dark ignorance of the woes and vices of the world in which they must pass their lives.
I helped to make him presentable as he bellowed his woes into my ear.
When a poor soul has lost use of his leg, noble sirs, these more trivial woes rest lightly in his memory.
Dole and despair henceforth be thy delight, Wrapped now in present and woesto come, To wail the day and weep the weary night; And from this time henceforth I strike thee dumb.
Thus, from infancy to girlhood, Jeanne had heard continually of the woes of the war, and had herself witnessed some of the wretchedness that it caused.
Both were honored as martyrs, and already, in the fierce exasperation of men's spirits against the authors of their doom, there was a prophecy of the unutterable woes which were even at the door.
Think not of good: "It cannot be my fate"; As drop by drop the water fills the pot, So slowly bad men woes accumulate.
This is the refuge safe, the sure retreat; This only from our woes can us release.
To save him from these woes devised by others Altsasti undertook to give him all the trouble he needed.
For Varney too had his grievances against the powers that were; but his woes were personal.
Then, in earliest childhood would have been entombed the limitless woes that are the melancholy occasion of that which I am writing.
When the wretched perceive or feel that their woes arouse compassion, their longing to give vent to their anguish is thereby increased.
CXV WOES Woe to the wolf that eats not flesh, Woe to the knight who drinks not wine, Woe to the maid who counteth love No gift divine.
The man said then in no gentle tone: "Our joys and our woes are not of this world.
The rise of English manufactures brought a new chapter of woes to Ireland.
DEAR LADY LAURA,-- I should have called in the Square last night, only that I feel that Lady Chiltern must be weary of the woes of so doleful a person as myself.
He smiled sunnily at Emma Ellis and was astonished to see tears in her light eyes, but he was used to tears and woes and secret sorrows, so he smiled again and more convincingly and went sturdily on with his meal.
Her zeal for the truth was not a blind, headlong enthusiasm, which sparkles, and glitters, and comes to an end, but a zeal founded on the wants and woes of a perishing world.
The curate in all woes that plague mankind,-- Too learned, for he was but young.
In giving myself up to grief after his death, the very woes I court would be sweet to me, if he were only still alive.
And the four brothers rejoice after the woes they have endured.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "woes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
