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1. “It is a lamentable lapse, I know,” her father answered in the words of apology, but his knowing look at the speaker rebuked the notion
2. 20 And when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice to Daniel, and the king spoke
3. 10 But on the other side there sounded an ill according cry of the enemies, and a lamentable noise was carried abroad for children that
4. lamentable, were set on fire as they bewailed the sudden destruction which was decreed against them
5. cup of salvation, instead of a grievous and lamentable death
6. Lago ends his exposition adding: “In any event, it is lamentable that in this hour of crisis of
7. 2 The Jews suffered great throes of sorrow and wept much; while their hearts all things around being lamentable were set on fire as they bewailed the sudden destruction which was decreed against them
8. 6 Girls who had entered the bridal chamber quite lately to enjoy the partnership of marriage exchanged pleasure for misery; and with dust scattered on their myrrh-anointed heads were hurried along unveiled; and in the midst of outlandish insults set up with one accord a lamentable cry in lieu of the marriage hymn
9. 31 Then they who were before despised and near to Hades yes rather advanced into it partook of the cup of salvation instead of a grievous and lamentable death
10. course; but even in the higher castes there is often a lamentable lack of
11. Nothing made him desist except his own lamentable state of demoraliza-tion
12. That was the most lamentable of her numerous frustrated undertakings
13. � Be assured that your President will hear about this lamentable security debacle
14. In fact, this lamentable state of affair, which just caused the resignation of our greatest generals and admirals, has been enduring since 1945, when President Truman started his first massive cuts in the country’s military budgets, and this without any regard for their effects on our armed forces
15. The loss was lamentable, but he would not let it stand
16. That day was lamentable for all of us
17. The business model of modern television is our lamentable excuse
18. In addition to his lamentable state, Timonus was also in desperate need of a shave and his wrists were red and raw where the ropes had been constantly chaffing at him
19. Even Byron had a wall space allocated to him here, and his lamentable single suitcase of clothes
20. He had no answer but the lamentable truth
21. Fidgeting in her seat, intensely aware of Joel’s scrutiny, Kathy tried to figure out a way to warn him about her parent’s lamentable matchmaking tendencies, without making it appear she herself found him to be prime husband material or was weaving romantic fantasies around him…which if she owned up to it, was precisely what she was wistfully doing
22. It is of course lamentable that our writing to each other should have been, as you say it was, so often the cause of quarrels
23. Dolly was very quick at the answers,--so quick that I suspected her of having been brought up on these very ones, as she no doubt was, but I cut a lamentable figure
24. My uncle's silence was merely ominous of what I was in for, of how strongly, after another night's thinking it out, he felt about my affairs and his own lamentable connection with them owing to God's having given me to him for a niece
25. "Are you going to have a baby, dear?" was all she could think of to say; and it was while Audrey was indignantly asking if one couldn't be angry without going to have a baby, that Conderley came in to announce Fanny's departure, and being in a temper she let that part of her which wasn't a lady emerge, and manifest itself in such lamentable language as the bit about the marines
26. And he thought, as he stared at it, and remembered how lovely it used to be, that she was indeed a poor, lost, drifting soul, for all her grand clothes and glistening car--a trivial poor soul, too, wasting her time trying to cover up the ruin left by her departed youth with this lamentable façade of paint and plaster
27. Lamentable, he recognized, to be such a weak and inferior faster
28. Lamentable when elderly women display emotion, thought Lanks, watching her
29. She knew she had made a lamentable first appearance in the _rôle_ of a retiring mother, but how difficult it was when you felt overwhelmingly to talk objectively
30. lamentable tone possible at every stroke of the whip, his
31. � Did my friend think that he chose all the terrible things that happened to him?� He listed the sadnesses of his life which were indeed substantial and lamentable
32. : "The lamentable results of the Platonic doctrine may be seen in the theology of a Tertullian and an Augustine, –theology called orthodox, –which makes the God of love an Executioner whom innumerable victims will curse eternally
33. Nevertheless we speak the simple truth when we say that if a man in the biological section of the British Association were to declare his opinion that some of the most lamentable conditions of human life were traceable to the action of evil spirits, he would be regarded, by nearly the whole company of learned persons assembled, as an enthusiast past redemption by argument
34. Christ and His apostles steadfastly enforced on their disciples the same lamentable prediction
35. The wide diffusion in this day of scientific and semi-scientific materialism cannot be prevented; there are millions who, led on by Spencer and Maudsley, will not listen to the old doctrine of the Immortality of the Soul, and the more you preach it to them the more fiercely, they revolt, and point to the phenomena of cerebral formation and cerebral decay; but to us the extension of these ideas, however lamentable, is not so fatal a hindrance as it is to the advocates of natural immortality
36. , "The lamentable results of the Platonic doctrine may be seen in the theology of a Tertullian and an Augustine,--theology called orthodox
37. And I do not see one cause or result lamentable at last in the universe
38. Leisurely enough, God knows--and here the advantage of bulkheads comes in--for time is a great friend, a good helper--though in this lamentable case these bulkheads served only to prolong the agony of the passengers who could not be saved
39. What was the bond between these heroic souls and the soul of Captain Nemo? From this collection of portraits could I finally unravel the mystery of his existence? Was he a fighter for oppressed peoples, a liberator of enslaved races? Had he figured in the recent political or social upheavals of this century? Was he a hero of that dreadful civil war in America, a war lamentable yet forever glorious
40. The general, with his head thrown back, hands extended, gaze fixed, looked silently at this dreadful apparition; then seeking the wall to support him, he glided along close to it until he reached the door, through which he went out backwards, uttering this single mournful, lamentable, distressing cry,—"Edmond Dantes!" Then, with sighs which were unlike any human sound, he dragged himself to the door, reeled across the court-yard, and falling into the arms of his valet, he said in a voice scarcely intelligible,—"Home, home
41. If I have committed an additional crime, punish me, but if you will allow that ever since the day of my birth my fate has been sad, bitter, and lamentable, then pity me
42. Each of these would furnish a narrative, but on the whole I am of opinion that none of them unite so many singular points of interest as the episode of Yoxley Old Place, which includes not only the lamentable death of young Willoughby Smith, but also those subsequent developments which threw so curious a light upon the causes of the crime
43. They lay, therefore, all day on Saturday in a lamentable case, as before
44. What could Charles Gould have been thinking of when he brought her out there! It was outrageous! And the doctor had watched the course of events with a grim and distant reserve which, he imagined, his lamentable history imposed upon him
45. For it was not for nothing that the evil bird had uttered its lamentable shriek over his head
46. He stood quivering, and the doctor, perched on the edge of the table, facing thoughtfully the cruel and lamentable sight, his chin in his hand, uttered, without stirring—
47. Never; not for one short hour altogether to herself in this old Spanish house she loved so well! Incorrigible, the last of the Corbelans, the last of the Avellanos, the doctor had said; but she saw clearly the San Tome mine possessing, consuming, burning up the life of the last of the Costaguana Goulds; mastering the energetic spirit of the son as it had mastered the lamentable weakness of the father
48. This dressing her up so prettily by her mother had apparently been to lamentable
49. Father Fauchelevent was rattling in the throat in the most lamentable manner
50. All who heard that voice were chilled, so lamentable and terrible was it; all eyes were turned to the point whence it had proceeded