Use "lamenting" in a sentence

1. once again lamenting the slowness of their colleagues

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2. One woman was lamenting the fact that her mother-in-law always

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3. Whittaker Chambers, lamenting on the imminent demise of Western Civilization, observed that ―a nation cannot save itself unless it wants to be saved

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4. She sat wringing the scrap of cloth in her intertwined fingers, lamenting the dear departed

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5. She forced her eyes off the lamenting family

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6. Sis then began lamenting about how her old fiance left her for a busty tramp

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7. They also laughed and pointed in my direction, probably lamenting on how my pants fell down in the middle of practice, and my Doremon underwear had been exposed

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8. 2 And I was grieving over Zion, and lamenting over the captivity

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9. The clouds parted traumatically, lamenting in their imposed separation, weeping in their forced denial to be one, when I shuddered at the bolt of lightning that angrily reared its ugly head, declaring its decision to sever and annihilate

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10. 42 And the man continued his journey on his ass with bitterness of soul, lamenting and weeping

11. 12 And the sons of Jacob and the sons of Esau went barefooted round about, walking and lamenting until they reached Kireath-arba

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12. 39 And all the weepers and mourners went at a distance opposite to the bier, going and weeping and lamenting, and the rest of the people went after the bier

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13. And having so said, He commands His angels that we be thrown out of paradise; And as we were being driven along, and were lamenting, your father Adam entreated the angels, saying, Allow me a little, that I may entreat God, and that He may have compassion on me, and pity me, for I only have sinned; And they stopped driving him; And Adam cried out with weeping, saying, Pardon me, Lord, what I have done; Then says the Lord to His angels, Why have you stopped driving Adam out of paradisee It is not that the sin is my, or that I have judged ill? Then the angels, falling to the ground, worshipped the Lord, saying, Just you are, Lord, and you judge what is right; And turning to Adam, the Lord said, I will not permit you from now on to be in paradise; And Adam answered and said, Lord, give me of the tree of life, that I may eat before I am throw out; Then the Lord said to Adam, you shall not now take of it, for it has been assigned to the cherubim and the flaming sword, which turns to guard it on account of you, that you may not taste of it and be free from death forever, but that you may have the war which the enemy has set in you; But when you are gone out of paradise, if you shall keep yourself from all evil, as being destined to die, I will again raise you up when the resurrection comes, and then there shall be given you of the tree of life, and you shall be free from death forever; And having so said, the Lord commanded us to be thrown out of paradise

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14. He concluded his letter by lamenting that “…The $1,500 that an election would cost is a small price to pay to spare our city of such an agony and to put real democracy to work”

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15. for legislators to claim they favor popular policies while lamenting the lack of opportunity to vote on them

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16. 42 And the man continued his journey on his ass with bitterness of soul lamenting and weeping

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17. 12 And the sons of Jacob and the sons of Esau went barefooted round about walking and lamenting until they reached Kireath-arba

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18. In commending Richard and lamenting the loss of his leadership, I shared with him one of my father’s favorite quotes, the words of the late Peter Kiewit, entrepreneur and former owner of the Omaha World-Herald (now the largest employee-employerowned newspaper in the United States), because they so perfectly fit Dean Cole: I do not choose to be a common man

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19. And having so said He commands His angels that we be thrown out of paradise; And as we were being driven along and were lamenting your father Adam entreated the angels saying Allow me a little that I may entreat God and that He may have compassion on me and pity me for I only have sinned; And they stopped driving him; And Adam cried out with weeping saying Pardon me Lord what I have done; Then says the Lord to His angels Why have you stopped driving Adam out of paradisee It is not that the sin is my or that I have judged ill? Then the angels falling to the ground worshipped the Lord saying Just you are Lord and you judge what is right; And turning to Adam the Lord said I will not permit you from now on to be in paradise; And Adam answered and said Lord give me of the tree of life that I may eat before I am throw out; Then the Lord said to Adam you shall not now take of it for it has been assigned to the cherubim and the flaming sword which turns to guard it on account of you that you may not taste of it and be free from death forever but that you may have the war which the enemy has set in you; But when you are gone out of paradise if you shall keep yourself from all evil as being destined to die I will again raise you up when the resurrection comes and then there shall be given you of the tree of life and you shall be free from death forever; And having so said the Lord commanded us to be thrown out of paradise

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20. 2 And I was grieving over Zion and lamenting over the captivity which had come on the people

21. Next thing she was weeping and wailing, lamenting for something - for so long

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22. The bodies of the Nuns who have died in this holy place -- all the humble sisters who over the decades have guarded the shrine of Saint Cuthbert -- shall rest side-by-side under the dust of our grass-grown graveyard, as if merely asleep, until to rise again on the Day of Judgment, when the Lord's trumpet shall sound, and all the dead shall come forth from lonely tombs to render their accounts to Him, and the spirits of the righteous shall be lifted on the arms of angels and shall forever reign with Christ where sorrow shall vanish, envy shall fade away, and pain and lamenting shall flee before the shining faces of the Saints

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23. lamenting the fact that he’d missed the classic recital on television because he lost track of

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24. lamenting their desperation to the night

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25. ―Oh, I wouldn‘t think of it,‖ Arayus replied, lamenting that Aaronson had beat him to it

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26. Thus, lamenting over the limitations of birth and missing on the opportunities of life would only lead one to a state of frustration

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27. In the repetitiveness of work, of contacts with the usual colleagues commenting time or lamenting

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28. All of them were lamenting as they heard the words of one of their leaders

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29. getting depressed and lamenting the state of the world

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30. lamenting the fact that he had little money to afford them

31. This must be Faye’s way of demeaning her husband in front of others during his presence by questioning his manhood and lamenting her own lack of opulent jewels

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32. Now they are weeping and lamenting all the present with many worries

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33. century; for, after lamenting the evils both of

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34. Joseph Torsella, the US representative to the United Nations for Management and Reform has recently called for a ban on drunken diplomats at the world body’s budgetary negotiations, lamenting that the already laborious process of getting 193 countries to agree to anything is being further hindered by officials consuming alcohol

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35. Was this old man lamenting over his past? How else then would he sing

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36. All of the women were sure that it would be only a few moments before death would take her, and therefore they started shouting and crying and lamenting

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37. However, the last prophecy struck everyone present with trepidation, such that one could hear believers, especially women, crying and lamenting aloud

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38. Is it then to be wondered at that I should argue that if it happens to both my friends in a set where there are only two, the entire world must be divided into those who give up and those who are given up, with a Greek chorus of lamenting and explanatory relatives as a finish? Really one might think that love, and its caprices, and its tantrums--you see I'm in my shrewish mood--makes up the whole of life

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39. “Do not even begin lamenting your youth again

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40. Imagine, with the vast landscape of the splendid world spread out before you, not moving freely in it on and on rejoicing and praising God, but sitting quite still lamenting in one spot, stuck in sediment

41. Being a wise man, Herr Dremmel lost no time in fidgeting or lamenting over the inevitable, but having heard the doctor's summing up, which was expressed in the one firm word repeated over and over again like a series of blows, _ausgeschlossen_, he ruled Ingeborg out of his thoughts as a wife and proceeded to train himself to contemplate her as a sister

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42. Nicole allowed herself an inward groan, lamenting the chore that awaited her return

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43. Those that are asking the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, that are lamenting after the Lord, and are pricked to the heart for sin, O shew them the good and the right way, and lead them in it

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44. Cast dust on their heads–As a phrase, this alludes to mourning and lamenting and infers that these

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45. For ourselves—while rendering just homage to the many noble qualities of our Unitarian brethren, and lamenting, in the interests of truth, the excesses of the falsely socalled Athanasian orthodoxy, which have occasioned and perhaps excused in part the reaction towards a purely humanitarian view of Christ’s person,—we must nevertheless abjure as scarcely deserving refutation these efforts of critical artifice

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46. In the same manner we adhere in the following pages to the ancient interpretation of these and other predictions respecting the rise and domination of an evil spiritual and temporal power at Rome, lamenting only that the theologians of the Anglican branch, assisted by some extreme and less learned sects of 'Plymouth Brethren,’ have labored so hard of late years to shake the faith of Protestants in that wellestablished application of the prophecies

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47. Up the two terrace flights of steps the rain ran wildly, and beat at the great door, like a swift messenger rousing those within; uneasy rushes of wind went through the hall, among the old spears and knives, and passed lamenting up the stairs, and shook the curtains of the bed where the last Marquis had slept

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48. Some were lamenting, and in restless motion; but, these were few

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49. Here one shepherd is sighing, there another is lamenting; there love songs are heard, here despairing elegies

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50. And if your misfortune should prove to be one of those that refuse admission to any sort of consolation, it was my purpose to join you in lamenting and mourning over it, so far as I could; for it is still some comfort in misfortune to find one who can feel for it

51. And I swear," added Don Quixote, "by the order of knighthood which I have received, and by my vocation of knight-errant, if you gratify me in this, to serve you with all the zeal my calling demands of me, either in relieving your misfortune if it admits of relief, or in joining you in lamenting it as I promised to do

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52. You are a mere infant, but you'll go next, Jo, and we'll be left lamenting," said Laurie, shaking his head over the degeneracy of the times

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53. I will buy some ewes and everything else requisite for the pastoral calling; and, I under the name of the shepherd Quixotize and thou as the shepherd Panzino, we will roam the woods and groves and meadows singing songs here, lamenting in elegies there, drinking of the crystal waters of the springs or limpid brooks or flowing rivers

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54. The oaks will yield us their sweet fruit with bountiful hand, the trunks of the hard cork trees a seat, the willows shade, the roses perfume, the widespread meadows carpets tinted with a thousand dyes; the clear pure air will give us breath, the moon and stars lighten the darkness of the night for us, song shall be our delight, lamenting our joy, Apollo will supply us with verses, and love with conceits whereby we shall make ourselves famed for ever, not only in this but in ages to come

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55. Why they were different, Robert exclaimed to her himself in the course of a quarter of an hour's conversation; for, talking of his brother, and lamenting the extreme gaucherie which he really believed kept him from mixing in proper society, he candidly and generously attributed it much less to any natural deficiency, than to the misfortune of a private education; while he himself, though probably without any particular, any material superiority by nature, merely from the advantage of a public school, was as well fitted to mix in the world as any other man

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56. For two days Aladdin remained in the dark, crying and lamenting

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57. When I refused to go, and when she found her entreaties did not move me, she went lamenting to her husband and brother

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58. Ulbrickson summoned up a deeper level of despair, calling the Bears the clear favorites before lamenting, “We have been handicapped this year by inclement weather

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59. Two bartenders were lamenting the crash of the stock market, as if they were losing millions

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60. Amalia Ivanovna raged about the room, shrieking, lamenting and throwing everything she came across on the floor

61. On the tape, I could be heard lamenting the fact that after years of contemplating the balance between ambition and equanimity, I still didn’t have an answer

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62. They were still standing over him, cursing their ill luck, and Bombur's clumsiness, and lamenting the loss of the boat which made it impossible for them to go back and look for the hart, when they became aware of the dim blowing of horns in the wood and the sound as of dogs baying far off

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63. Then the many boats could be seen dotted dark on the surface of the lake, and down the wind came the voices of the people of Esgaroth lamenting their lost town and goods and ruined houses

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64. In every letter I opened, my father repeated the same apologies, marking and lamenting every single missed birthday or Christmas

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65. [Krzyzewski] doesn’t want them celebrating that incredible alley-oop dunk, and he doesn’t want them lamenting the fact that the opposing team just stole the ball and had a fast break that led to an easy layup

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66. Loaded carts stood at the house next to Ferapontov’s and women were wailing and lamenting as they said good-by

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67. It’s she! She kept on lamenting and crying,’ continued

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68. The servant-woman was lamenting in a corner, the cure was praying, and his sobs were audible, the doctor was wiping his eyes; the corpse itself was weeping

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69. She began with a good portion, but she liked it so much that she took another of the same size, and she was lamenting the fact that urbane etiquette did not permit her to help herself to a third, when she learned that she had just eaten, with unsuspected pleasure, two heaping plates of pureed eggplant

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70. Instead of tuning in to somebody else’s success, listen for people lamenting an investment gone bad

71. She had found a seat, where in excessive trembling she was enduring all these fearful thoughts, while the other three, no longer under any restraint, were giving vent to their feelings of vexation, lamenting over such an unlooked-for premature arrival as a most untoward event, and without mercy wishing poor Sir Thomas had been twice as long on his passage, or were still in Antigua

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72. This wish was levelled principally at Julia, who had just applied for permission to go to town with Maria; and as Sir Thomas thought it best for each daughter that the permission should be granted, Lady Bertram, though in her own good-nature she would not have prevented it, was lamenting the change it made in the prospect of Julia’s return, which would otherwise have taken place about this time

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73. Why they WERE different, Robert exclaimed to her himself in the course of a quarter of an hour’s conversation; for, talking of his brother, and lamenting the extreme GAUCHERIE which he really believed kept him from mixing in proper society, he candidly and generously attributed it much less to any natural deficiency, than to the misfortune of a private education; while he himself, though probably without any particular, any material superiority by nature, merely from the advantage of a public school, was as well fitted to mix in the world as any other man

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74. This wish was levelled principally at Julia, who had just applied for permission to go to town with Maria; and as Sir Thomas thought it best for each daughter that the permission should be granted, Lady Bertram, though in her own good-nature she would not have prevented it, was lamenting the change it made in the prospect of Julia's return, which would otherwise have taken place about this time

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75. Her days were spent in a kind of slow bustle; all was busy without getting on, always behindhand and lamenting it, without altering her ways; wishing to be an economist, without contrivance or regularity; dissatisfied with her servants, without skill to make them better, and whether helping, or reprimanding, or indulging them, without any power of engaging their respect

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76. Near Tristan, Iseult of the White Hands crouched, maddened at the evil she had done, and calling and lamenting over the dead man

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77. And lastly, in a street near the poultry market, a group of small burgesses, numbering about forty, whose clothes were in tatters, and whose faces, through the combined effects of fear, hunger, and cold, retained scarcely any semblance of humanity, waited till the suite approached the end of the street, then fell on their knees, stretching out their arms to the Emperor, bewailing what they had suffered, lamenting their utter ruin, and begging for mercy and bread!

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78. Trembling in every limb they would plod on until the snow, forming balls under their feet, absolutely prevented all progress; then, stumbling over a piece of wood or the dead body of a comrade, they would fall and lie groaning and lamenting while the snow covered them up, leaving on the surface nothing but an almost invisible hillock—a soldier’s grave

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79. Long processions of the citizens of Moscow, carrying the sacred ikons and the vessels of the Mass, left by all the gates of the city, lamenting and singing plaintive songs

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80. Amalia Ivanovna raged about the room, shrieking, lamenting and 716 of 967

81. She was twenty-five now, and must be fated to be an old maid, and “with such beauty, too!” The mother spent whole nights in weeping and lamenting, while all the time the cause of her grief slumbered peacefully

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82. None were crying except the children, who had been waked out of their sleep, though the women who had dragged out their chattels were lamenting in sing-song voices

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83. People crowded in a close circle round him; they were all shaking their heads and lamenting

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84. The landlady wailed without ceasing, lamenting for Semyon Ivanovitch, and cursing him for having taken advantage of her lone, lorn state

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85. 1 They started lamenting and got ready to lay him out

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86. Loaded carts stood at the house next to Ferapóntov’s and women were wailing and lamenting as they said good-by

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87. It’s she! She kept on lamenting and crying,” continued the woman

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88. Reflecting and lamenting in this way, Mr

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89. I am far from lamenting over the needless — for me — loss of a rouble; but I cannot help expressing my indignation at the recollection of your public outrage upon me, to the detriment of my honour, and what is more, in the presence of several persons of good breeding, though not belonging to my circle of acquaintance

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90. concluded a speech of two hours in length, by lamenting the state of the country, and invoking the spirit which "rides the whirlwind and directs the storm," to guide the nation to a happy result