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lachrymose
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  • "The Tides of Lake Lachrymose," Violet said, reading the title of the top book.†   (source)
  • "A body of water as big as Lake Lachrymose," the driver said, "can have anything occur on it.†   (source)
  • The Lachrymose Leeches reached the sailboat and began tapping on the wooden side.†   (source)
  • With a little gasp and a big splash she fell into the waters of Lake Lachrymose.†   (source)
  • "Lake Lachrymose is actually very pretty," Klaus said thoughtfully.†   (source)
  • Lake Lachrymose felt like a friend to me.†   (source)
  • I bet the Lachrymose Leeches won't even show up."†   (source)
  • We have to find her books on Lake Lachrymose and find out where Curdled Cave is.†   (source)
  • "Ivan Lachrymose—Lake Explorer," Violet read.†   (source)
  • "She's frightened of anything to do with Lake Lachrymose," Mr. Poe said, "but she didn't say why.†   (source)
  • I am not on top of the hill, overlooking Lake Lachrymose, on that gloomy morning.†   (source)
  • The Lachrymose Leeches swarmed around the sinking sailboat, gnashing their tiny teeth.†   (source)
  • Perhaps if you lived somewhere far from Lake Lachrymose, you might feel better.†   (source)
  • "The Bottom of Lake Lachrymose," Klaus said, reading the next one.†   (source)
  • Well, at this very moment the Lachrymose Leeches are probably finding her very sweet indeed.†   (source)
  • It was all chewed away by the Lachrymose Leeches.†   (source)
  • The Lachrymose Leeches are usually quite harmless, preying only on small fish.†   (source)
  • "The Lachrymose Leeches," Aunt Josephine said, "are quite different from regular leeches.†   (source)
  • If you don't wait an hour after eating, the Lachrymose Leeches will smell food on you, and attack."†   (source)
  • The sun was beginning to set over the inky depths of Lake Lachrymose, and a cold evening wind was beginning to blow.†   (source)
  • I'd like to build an inventing studio for myself, perhaps over Lake Lachrymose, where Aunt Josephine's house used to be, so we can always remember her."†   (source)
  • "You don't think he would allow the Lachrymose Leeches to chew off his leg," Aunt Josephine said, "just to play a prank on you?†   (source)
  • We need her books on Lake Lachrymose.†   (source)
  • The Lake Lachrymose Police Department will be happy to capture a known criminal wanted for fraud, murder, and the endangerment of children.†   (source)
  • By the time the creature reached the spiky metal gate, the orphans were already on the stormy waters of Lake Lachrymose.†   (source)
  • Sunny said glumly, which probably meant something like "Maybe he wants to put the Lachrymose Leeches in our beds."†   (source)
  • The Lachrymose Leeches hit the side of the boat, widening the crack in the side and rocking the boat again.†   (source)
  • From floor to ceiling, the wall was a window, just one enormous curved pane of glass, and beyond the glass was a spectacular view of Lake Lachrymose.†   (source)
  • But I still cannot imagine what it was like to watch Aunt Josephine's house topple into Lake Lachrymose.†   (source)
  • Just a few yards away the water was rippling as the Lachrymose Leeches swam toward Captain Sham's sailboat.†   (source)
  • The three siblings struggled into their life vests as the stormy waves of Lake Lachrymose took them farther and farther away from the shore.†   (source)
  • The sad truth was that the wood was too wet from Hurricane Herman and from Lake Lachrymose to create enough friction to start a fire.†   (source)
  • Outside, the wind was blowing harder, and it had started to drizzle as Hurricane Herman got closer and closer to Lake Lachrymose.†   (source)
  • Leeches are blind, but they aren't stupid, and the Lachrymose Leeches knew that they were not eating a banana.†   (source)
  • As they walked up the hill in silence, the children looked down at Lake Lachrymose and felt the chill of doom fall over their hearts.†   (source)
  • The lump was the bag of peppermints that Mr. Poe had given the Baudelaires the day they had arrived at Lake Lachrymose, and it had given her an idea.†   (source)
  • The orphans couldn't help wondering how a woman who was so afraid of Lake Lachrymose could live in a house that felt like it was about to fall into its depths.†   (source)
  • The Lachrymose Leeches made a quiet, whispering sound on the water as they swam, as if the Baudelaire orphans were surrounded by people murmuring terrible secrets.†   (source)
  • But Violet, Klaus, and Sunny sat on the dock and watched the sun come up over Lake Lachrymose and wondered exactly what the moral was of their time with Aunt Josephine.†   (source)
  • "Lachrymose Trout," Violet read.†   (source)
  • Now that the Lachrymose Leeches were getting frustrated, everyone on board the sailboat was quite anxious to see what would happen when frustration brought out the worst in leeches.†   (source)
  • "A Lachrymose Atlas," Violet said.†   (source)
  • I wish I could write that Count Olaf was captured as he tried to flee, or that Aunt Josephine came swimming up to Damocles Dock, having miraculously escaped from the Lachrymose Leeches.†   (source)
  • And out beyond the dock was the inky blob of Lake Lachrymose, huge and dark as if a monster were standing over the three orphans, casting a giant shadow below them.†   (source)
  • The storm was rising, and the children could tell that the wind and the rain wanted nothing more than to grab them and throw them into the raging waters of Lake Lachrymose.†   (source)
  • Klaus grabbed A Lachrymose Atlas, not wanting to think what would be happening if they were still leafing through the book and had not looked up at the window.†   (source)
  • After all, the three children had just disembarked from the Fickle Ferry, which had driven them across Lake Lachrymose to live with their Aunt Josephine, and in most cases such a situation would lead to thrillingly good times.†   (source)
  • She probably meant something along the lines of "We didn't sail a stolen sailboat across Lake Lachrymose in the middle of Hurricane Herman just to stand nervously at the mouth of a cave," and her siblings had to agree with her and follow her inside.†   (source)
  • The piece of advice is as follows: If you ever need to get to Curdled Cave in a hurry, do not, under any circumstances, steal a boat and attempt to sail across Lake Lachrymose during a hurricane, because it is very dangerous and the chances of your survival are practically zero.†   (source)
  • And we can never know exactly what was happening to Aunt Josephine as the children sat on the dock, unable to help her, but I will say that eventually—about the time when the Baudelaire orphans were forced to attend a miserable boarding school—two fishermen found both of Aunt Josephine's life jackets, all in tatters and floating alone in the murky waters of Lake Lachrymose.†   (source)
  • I was Byron, and the tree was Byron's tree, lachrymose, down-showering, lamenting.†   (source)
  • It is true that the Limeans were given to interpolating trivial songs into the most exquisite comedies and some lachrymose effects into the austerest music; but at least they never submitted to the boredom of a misplaced veneration.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER X Over the waffles next morning, Pittypat was lachrymose, Melanie was silent and Scarlett defiant.†   (source)
  • You might have thought that Leonora would be just calmly loathing and he lachrymosely contrite.†   (source)
  • He was by turns devout and obscene, merry and lachrymose.†   (source)
  • He commenced by being abjectly lachrymose.†   (source)
  • "Goodness, man, don't be so lachrymose."†   (source)
  • "God bless you," the beggar chanted in a lachrymose voice.†   (source)
  • I suppose Catherine fulfilled her project, for the next sentence took up another subject: she waxed lachrymose.†   (source)
  • Newman inquired with interest about Mademoiselle Noemie; and M. Nioche, at first, for answer, simply looked at him in lachrymose silence.†   (source)
  • The best fun was with Madame Joubert: Miss Wilson was a poor sickly thing, lachrymose and low-spirited, not worth the trouble of vanquishing, in short; and Mrs. Grey was coarse and insensible; no blow took effect on her.†   (source)
  • But I would not be lachrymose: I dashed off the salt drops, and busied myself with preparing breakfast.†   (source)
  • M. Nioche drained his pungent glass at a long draught, and looked out from eyes more lachrymose in consequence.†   (source)
  • Of Don Galaor, the brother of Amadis of Gaul, it was whispered that he was over quarrelsome, and of his brother that he was lachrymose.†   (source)
  • Master Nicholas, the village barber, however, used to say that neither of them came up to the Knight of Phoebus, and that if there was any that could compare with him it was Don Galaor, the brother of Amadis of Gaul, because he had a spirit that was equal to every occasion, and was no finikin knight, nor lachrymose like his brother, while in the matter of valour he was not a whit behind him.†   (source)
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