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  • That my walk across London ended at the church on Clapham Common, and that a cowardly Briony limped back to the hospital, unable to confront her recently bereaved sister.†   (source)
  • She spent her holidays in Ayemenem, largely ignored by Chacko and Mammachi (grown soft with sorrow, slumped in their bereavement like a pair of drunks in a toddy bar) and largely ignoring Baby Kochamma.†   (source)
  • But if the guy has any questions, and he may, what I'd like to do is refer him to you—give him your number, eldest son, mother recently bereaved, blah blah blah —†   (source)
  • But she hadn't waited and he attended her funeral more put out with her than bereaved.†   (source)
  • Noise and activity are the refuges of the bereaved and the guilty.†   (source)
  • And me a bereaved widow, practically.†   (source)
  • It was customary for a home that had suffered a bereavement to be filled with relatives and well-wishers for many days, but this practice was presently circumscribed by the dangers involved in making a journey in the city, and while people did come to see Saeed's father and Saeed, most came furtively, and could not stay long.†   (source)
  • A bereavement, some other loss?†   (source)
  • Due to the Whites' near-fanatical fundamentalist religious beliefs, Mrs. White had no friends to see her through her period of bereavement.†   (source)
  • As the author Mary Pipher wrote about refugees who had been resettled in Nebraska in her book The Middle of Everywhere, "The refugee experience of dislocation, cultural bereavement, confusion and constant change will soon be all of our experience.†   (source)
  • I relate this because some ten years after the conflict, that is to say when the wounds of bereavement had only superficially healed, my father was called into Mr John Silvers' study to be told that this very same personage — I will call him simply 'the General' — was due to visit for a number of days to attend a house party, during which my father's employer hoped to lay the foundations of a lucrative business transaction.†   (source)
  • And with a bereaved stillness born of this knowledge, as May slipped by, she watched the separate world outside grow warm and green.†   (source)
  • The Sullivans and the Browns would go on to organize "While We're Waiting" faith-based retreats for bereaved parents.†   (source)
  • And ....one of our bereaved.†   (source)
  • The letter, after expressing gratitude to the townspeople for having opened their "homes and hearts" to the bereaved family, turned into a plea.†   (source)
  • Not only am I unemployed and homeless, but I also have a pregnant woman, bereaved dog, elephant, and eleven horses to take care of.†   (source)
  • Yossarian was unmoved by the fustian charade of the burial ceremony, and by Milo's crushing bereavement.†   (source)
  • For that's all this is—very skilled dodgers stealing money from the bereaved for a little glint of hope.†   (source)
  • The night was railing against the morning of which it was bereaved, and the cold was cursing the warmth for which it hungered.†   (source)
  • The nation, said the President in a formal message to the Senate, had lost "her most esteemed, beloved, and admired citizen...I feel myself alone, bereaved of my last brother."†   (source)
  • The Lord never sends you more than you can bear— That was an ancient Maycomb phrase employed by its fragile ladies who sat up with corpses, supposed to be profoundly comforting to the bereaved.†   (source)
  • But for Ira, John, and Rene, the personages who mattered were the three bereaved "Gold Star" mothers.†   (source)
  • To mourn is not the same as to be in mourning, which means wear ing a black armband and sitting in the parlor, talking to people who call on the bereaved.†   (source)
  • A bereaved expression crossed his face, as if he were someone attending the funeral of a close friend.†   (source)
  • I'm flying back to Blackburne Airport, where I'll create a scene, the bereaved husband and father who's gone crazy over the killing of his wife and children.†   (source)
  • No. I mean, is there no mourning in the home of the bereaved that such blasphemy is permitted?†   (source)
  • How do you explain that to bereaved parents?†   (source)
  • At meetings of The Compassionate Friends, Joe had never seen any bereaved parent capable of this effervescence.†   (source)
  • That's all I remember hearing, but when I got off the plane a few minutes later and the Bereaved Widow came toward me all in Bergdorf Goodman black, I had the Wrong Expression on my face.†   (source)
  • "Heavenly Father," he intoned in a hollow-sounding voice, "we ask you this morning to comfort us in our bereavement.†   (source)
  • They are mostly bereaved family members.†   (source)
  • When the move was completed there were ten pups at this second den, all much of a size and age and, as far as Ootek could tell, all treated with identical care and kindness by the several adults, now including the bereaved male.†   (source)
  • There was something actually indecent about the idea, like laying siege to a recently bereaved widow.†   (source)
  • Passionate, recalcitrant, stubbornly undefeated by failure or hurt or disgrace or bereavement, all the while heedlessly wasting of her gifts, she knows to the last that there is a world that remains out there, a world living and mysterious, and that she is of it.†   (source)
  • He nodded and threw a confused, ghastly smile which he vaguely intended as consolation for the bereaved.†   (source)
  • At the end of the evening he started to say how bereaved he would feel when his two young friends left Moscow-the town would be like a desert, a Sahara; but he became so sentimental that he began to sob, and he had to start: all over from the beginning.†   (source)
  • And yet, clearly as she felt that she realized what the bereavement would mean to Jay's mother, and wrong as she was even to entertain such an idea, she could not help feeling that even more, his death would mean great relief and release.†   (source)
  • Then the house was suddenly full of relatives, friends, hysteria, and confusion and I quickly left my mother and the children to the care of those impressive women, who, inNegro communities at least, automatically appear at times of bereavement armed with lotions, proverbs, and patience, and an ability to cook.†   (source)
  • The tone of their protests had been Annie's exactly , not bereavement but outrage.†   (source)
  • But then, the bereaved are so easily imposed upon.†   (source)
  • As a member of the family, one of the bereaved, he was the object of a great deal of attention.†   (source)
  • Her eyes were full of compassion, and Cholly remembered that he was the bereaved.†   (source)
  • Since when have strangers donned clothes of indigo before the bereaved cries out his loss?†   (source)
  • I've lived with my bereavement so long now that I cannot think of him alive.†   (source)
  • There was nobody to do it except Uncle O. V., and he was the bereaved too.†   (source)
  • It was now a thing of mingled bereavement and anxiety, inextricable and bewilderingly intense.†   (source)
  • Bereavement.†   (source)
  • I believe she had the idea of making a match with my father; he was putting forth his best qualities, and taking some care with himself; and such a man, so recently bereaved and with so many children, must have seemed to Mrs. Burt like a fruit ready to fall from the tree.†   (source)
  • He must speak to the bereaved, clasp their hands, witness their tears, receive their thanks, hear the news now creeping in from every quarter as the morning drew on; that the Imperiused up and down the country had come back to themselves, that Death Eaters were fleeing or else being captured, that the innocent of Azkaban were being released at that very moment, and that Kingsley Shacklebolt had been named temporary Minister of Magic.†   (source)
  • Such bereavement, witnessed at close range, makes even the most eloquent apologia for high-risk activities ring fatuous and hollow.†   (source)
  • Two days later, halfway through the service, it seemed as though Ruth was going to be the lone member of the bereaved family there.†   (source)
  • Even I could see that for the bride to start fall cleaning the day after the wedding, in the middle of the hottest summer on record, was the same as announcing to the world that the first Mrs. Blakeslee was sloven and her house too dirty to live in — and that the Blakeslee daughters hadn't cared enough for their poor bereaved papa to keep it clean for him.†   (source)
  • After Uncle Al recovers from his violent but short-lived bereavement, he organizes a farewell befitting "our beloved Lucinda.†   (source)
  • Gus and Wes listened to Sergeant Towser with looks of stoic surprise and said not a word about their bereavement to anyone else until Doc Daneeka himself came in about an hour afterward to have his temperature taken for the third time that day and his blood pressure checked.†   (source)
  • In that regard, he was like most other men in his situation; bereaved mothers went to the meetings faithfully and found comfort in talking with others whose children had been taken, but nearly all the fathers turned inward and held their pain close.†   (source)
  • For the six guests of honor on the platform—the three flagraising "heroes" and the three bereaved mothers—this moment must have throbbed with wildly competing emotions.†   (source)
  • And an old man who knew death from the brutalities of war and who insisted on seeing the bereaved husband and father-he was accompanied by a woman in a nurse's uniform, properly topped by a hat and a dark mourning veil.†   (source)
  • My idea of a nice way to live would be a quiet little parlor, the only one in town, with a selection of caskets, all prices, and a markup that allowed a little leeway to show generosity to the bereaved.†   (source)
  • She sat up tall on the stile, feeling that he would look right through her-Virgie Rainey on a stile, bereaved, hatless, unhidden now, in the rain-and he did.†   (source)
  • It was as if there had never been such a dusk before and night were falling now for the first time in order to console him in his loneliness and bereavement; as if the valley were not always girded by a panorama of wooded hills on the horizon but the trees had only taken up their places now, rising out of the ground in order to comfort him with their presence.†   (source)
  • Awaiting the train would be the bereaved father, the importunate mistress, a hearse, an unctuous mortician, perhaps someone else ...A faithful retainer, a woman.†   (source)
  • This leads to nearly terminal recriminations between Willard—described as having "a marvelous Princetonian tilt to his head, besides a considerable feline grace"—and the bereaved Ramona, "her slender lissomeness barely concealing the full voluptuous surge which lurked beneath."†   (source)
  • A sense of loss that was as suffocatingly painful as actual bereavement welled up in me; I gagged on a wet heave of nausea.†   (source)
  • After setting down my tense, distraught little funeral tableau so permeated by human desolation and bereavement, I felt I had earned the right to a few beers and the fellowship of Sophie and Nathan.†   (source)
  • The doctor had no near relatives, and in his wild bereavement—so deep and burningly felt that she could not help but be moved by it—Sophie found herself acting as a kind of surrogate kin, a younger sister or daughter.†   (source)
  • In the later, emended (and, I am convinced, truthful) version of her story she told me she felt no real bereavement over the seizure of her father and husband—she was by this time too alienated from both of them for it to affect her deeplybut she was forced to feel on another level shock that hammered at her bones, glacial fear and a devastating sense of loss.†   (source)
  • I could only surmise from what she said about her first six months at Auschwitz that the shock and grief caused by Eva's death created a bereavement which might have destroyed her, too, had it not been for Jan and his survival; the very fact that the little boy still lived, even though beyond her reach, and that she might somehow eventually get to see him was enough to sustain her through the initial phases of the nightmare.†   (source)
  • I had no voice to answer Sophie after all this; certainly I had nothing to say when her own voice now rose slightly to make a quick blunt statement which, ghastly and heartbreaking as it was to me as a revelation, seemed in light of all the foregoing to be merely another agonizing passage embedded in an aria of unending bereavement.†   (source)
  • 'A loss?' repeated Fanny, relinquished by the bereaved Sparkler, and taking her seat.†   (source)
  • Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved.†   (source)
  • 'I must regret that I intrude in the midst of your bereavement,' said Hercule Poirot.†   (source)
  • Pray for the woman and the children that are bereaved.†   (source)
  • And Kumalo stood watching him, and said in his heart, 0 child bereaved, I know your reasons.†   (source)
  • And this wife, these children, they are bereaved because of my son.†   (source)
  • All ages and sexes went visiting, honeymooners, young mothers showing off new babies, convalescents, the bereaved, girls whose parents were anxious to remove them from the dangers of unwise matches, girls who had reached the danger age without becoming engaged and who, it was hoped, would make suitable matches under the guidance of relatives in other places.†   (source)
  • Of course, at the precise moment of terror, bereavement, or physical pain, you may catch your man when his reason is temporarily suspended.†   (source)
  • Thrown off their balance by bereavement and anxiety, they were burning their houses under the odd delusion that they were killing off the plague in the holocaust.†   (source)
  • I had lived a lonely childhood and a boyhood straitened by war and overshadowed by bereavement; to the hard bachelordom of English adolescence, the premature dignity and authority of the school system, I had added a sad and grim strain of my own.†   (source)
  • In very breathing they draw meat and drink from some beautiful attenuation of unreality in which the shades and shapes of facts—of birth and bereavement, of suffering and bewilderment and despair—move with the substanceless decorum of lawn party charades, perfect in gesture and without significance or any ability to hurt Miss Rosa ordered that one.†   (source)
  • I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely a function of the mind and that of the minds of the ones who suffer the bereavement.†   (source)
  • Then he lost his church, he lost the Church, and the bitterest thing which he believed that he had ever faced—more bitter even than the bereavement and the shame—was the letter which he wrote them to say that from now on he could send them but half the sum which he had previously sent.†   (source)
  • A girl in the flower store kept a record in a special file of all the orders that came in for a cop's funeral, and then Tony just ran through the file after the funeral and checked the names by his master list of perennially bereaved friends and if your name was on the master list it had sure-God better be in the file for Murphy's funeral, and I don't mean any bunch of sweet peas, either.†   (source)
  • Mostly the bereaved pick a verse.†   (source)
  • About a year after Nakamura-san retired, she was invited by an organization called the Bereaved Families' Association to take a train trip with about a hundred other war widows to visit the Yasukuni Shrine, in Tokyo.†   (source)
  • The doctor could not tell if Tarrou had found peace, now that all was over, but for himself he had a feeling that no peace was possible to him henceforth, any more than there can be an armistice for a mother bereaved of her son or for a man who buries his friend.†   (source)
  • It is as though upon a face carved by a savage caricaturist a monstrous "burlesque of all bereavement flowed.†   (source)
  • He was decorously clad in black, his linen frilly and starched, and his manner was all that custom demanded from an old friend paying a call of sympathy on one bereaved.†   (source)
  • man whom he had given permission fourteen years ago to squat in, the abandoned fishing camp with the year-old grandchild—Jones, partner porter and clerk who at the demon's command removed with his own hand (and maybe delivered too) from the showcase the candy beads and ribbons, measured the very cloth from which Judith (who had not been bereaved and did not mourn) helped the granddaughter to fashion a dress to walk part the lounging men in, the side-looking and the tongues, until her increasing belly taught her embarrassment—or perhaps fear; —Jones who before '61 had not even been allowed to approach the front of the house and who during the next four years got no nearer than the kitche†   (source)
  • The Baptist and Methodist ministers who performed them had no set prayers but extemporized as the circumstances demanded and seldom stopped before all mourners were in tears and the bereaved feminine relatives screaming with grief.†   (source)
  • I entered the house of bereavement, the lowly dwelling where another erring mortal lay while her soul faced the awful and irrevocable judgment, peace to her ashes.†   (source)
  • Thus until the end of August our fellow citizens could be conveyed to their last resting-place, if not under very decorous conditions, at least in a manner orderly enough for the authorities to feel that they were doing their duty by the dead and the bereaved.†   (source)
  • and lived all his life in a kind of silken prison lighted by perpetual shaded candles, breathing for air the milklike and absolutely physical lambence which his mother's days and hours emanated, had seen little enough of sunlight before, let alone out-of-doors, trees and grass and earth; and last of all, the other woman, Judith (who, not bereaved, did not need to mourn Quentin thought, thinking Yes, I have had to listen too long) who stood just inside the cedars, in the calico dress and the sunbonnet to match it, both faded and shapeless—the calm face, the hands which could plow or cut wood and cook or weave cloth folded before her, standing in the attitude of an indifferent guide in†   (source)
  • She thought of the servants of her neighbors who had stood loyally beside their white owners, protecting their mistresses while the men were at the front, refugeeing with them through the terrors of the war, nursing the wounded, burying the dead, comforting the bereaved, working, begging, stealing to keep food on the tables.†   (source)
  • It did not matter to them (Quentin and Shreve) anyway, who could without moving, as free now of flesh as the father who decreed and forbade, the son who denied and repudiated, the lover who acquiesced, the beloved who was not bereaved, and with no tedious transition from hearth and garden (granted the garden) to saddle, be already clattering over the frozen ruts of that December night and that Christmas dawn, that day of peace and cheer, of holly and goodwill and logs on the hearth; not two of them there and then either but four of them riding the two horses through the iro†   (source)
  • For these last, who had now for company only their newborn grief, for those who at this moment were dedicating themselves to a life-long memory of bereavement-for these unhappy people matters were very different, the pangs of separation had touched their climax.†   (source)
  • of the two stones as 'Colonel' and 'Mrs Colonel; then through the Cumberland Gap and down through the Tennessee mountains, travelling at night to dodge Yankee patrols, and into Mississippi in the late fall of '64, where the daughter waited whose marriage he had interdict and who was to be a widow the next summer though apparently not bereaved, where his wife was dead and his son self-excommunicated and —banished, and put one of the stones over his wife's grave and set the other upright in the hall of the house, where Miss Coldfield possibly (maybe doubtless) looked at it every day as though it were his portrait, possibly (maybe doubtless here too) reading among the lettering more o†   (source)
  • And there was Jarvis, bereaved of his wife and his son, and his daughter-in-law bereaved of her husband, and her children bereaved of their father, especially the small boy, the bright laughing boy.†   (source)
  • But there came a picture to him of the house of bereavement, of all the cars of the white people that would be there, of the black-clothed farmers that would stand about in little groups, talking gravely and quietly, for he had seen such a thing before.†   (source)
  • —(that at least regarding which he should have needed no word nor warning even if Judith would have sent him one, sent him acknowledgement that she was beaten, who according to Mr Compson would no more have sent him acknowledgement that he had beat her than she waited (who Miss Coldfield said was not bereaved) and met him on his return, not with the fury and despair perhaps which he might have expected even though knowing as little, having learned as little, about women as Mr Compson said he had, yet certainly with something other than the icy calm with which, according to Miss Goldfield, she met him—the kiss again after almost two years, on the brow†   (source)
  • ago she died without regaining consciousness and without pain they say and whatever they mean by that since it has always seemed to me that the only painless death must be that which takes the intelligence by violent surprise and from the rear so to speak since if death be anything at all beyond a brief and peculiar emotional state of the bereaved it must be a brief and likewise peculiar state of the subject as well and if aught can be more painful to any intelligence above that of a child or an idiot than a slow and gradual confronting with that which over a long period of bewilderment and dread it has been taught to regard as an irrevocable and unplumbable finality, I do not know it.†   (source)
  • strange woman would therefore carry on the tradition, accomplish the hereditary evil and harm under another name and upon and among people who will never have heard the right one; daughter doomed to spinsterhood who had chosen spinsterhood already before there was anyone named Charles Bon since the aunt who came to succor her in bereavement and sorrow found neither but instead that calm absolutely impenetrable face between a homespun dress and sunbonnet seen before a closed door and again in a cloudy swirl of chickens while Jones was building the coffin and which she wore during the next year while the aunt lived there and the three women wove their own garments and raised their ow†   (source)
  • And no tears, no bereavement this time too, whether or not it was because she had no time to mourn since she ran the store herself now until she found a buyer for it, not keeping it open but carrying the keys to it in her apron pocket, hailed from the kitchen or the garden or even from the field since she and Clyde now did all the plowing which was done, now that Jones wa†   (source)
  • carry them, hollow fragile and without weight, back to the warehouse until they should be needed again; the pageant, the scene, the act, entering upon the stage—the magnolia-faced woman a little plumper now, a woman created of by and for darkness whom the artist Beardsley might have dressed, in a soft flowing gown designed not to infer bereavement or widowhood but to dress some interlude of slumbrous and fatal insatiation, of passionate and inexorable hunger of the flesh, walking beneath a lace parasol and followed by a bright gigantic negress carrying a silk cushion and leading by the hand the little boy whom Beardsley might not only have dressed but drawn—a thin delicate child with†   (source)
  • (Ay, wake up, Rosa; wake up—not from what was, what used to be, but from what had not, could not have ever, been; wake, Rosa—not to what should, what might have been, but to what cannot, what must not, be; wake, Rosa, from the hoping, who did believe there is a seemliness to bereavement even though grief be absent; believed there would be need for you to save not love perhaps, not happiness nor peace, but what was left behind by widowing—and found that there was nothing there to save; who hoped to save her as you promised Ellen (not Charles Bon, not Henry; not either one of these from him or even from one another) and now t†   (source)
  • a child, still living in that womb-like corridor where the world came not even as living echo but as dead incomprehensible shadow, where with the quiet and unalarmed amazement of a child I watched the miragy antics of men and women my father, my sister, Thomas Sutpen, Judith, Henry, Charles Bon—called honor, principle, marriage, love, bereavement, death; the child who watching him was not a child but one of that triumvirate mother-woman which we three, Judith Clytie and I, made, which fed and clothed and warmed the static shell and so gave vent and scope to the fierce vain illusion and so said, At last my life is worth something, even though it only shields and guards the antic fury of a†   (source)
  • Then something like a bereaved affection and self-pity swept over him.†   (source)
  • It is bereavement that has brought you to this!†   (source)
  • Ramsden seems to know the nature of the bereavement.†   (source)
  • The blow of her bereavement seemed to have destroyed her reasoning faculty.†   (source)
  • 'I was aware that you sustained a bereavement, sir, some time ago,' said Mr. Chillip.†   (source)
  • It was sad to witness the grief of my bereaved grandmother.†   (source)
  • Chapter 4 The blinds of Mrs. Peniston's drawing-room were drawn down against the oppressive June sun, and in the sultry twilight the faces of her assembled relatives took on a fitting shadow of bereavement.†   (source)
  • —dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it wastes away and dissolves into correctness, knowing it will never visit his bereaved ear again.†   (source)
  • Gold untold of by tale that grimly is cheapened,
    And now at the last by this one's own life
    Are rings bought, and all these the brand now shall fret,
    The flame thatch them over: no earl shall bear off
    One gem in remembrance; nor any fair maiden
    Shall have on her halse a ring-honour thereof,
    But in grief of mood henceforth, bereaved of gold,
    Shall oft, and not once alone, alien earth tread,
    Now that the host-learn'd hath laid aside laughter,
    The game and the glee-joy.†   (source)
  • It's really easier to face bereavement, dishonor, and the perdition of one's soul—than this kind of prolonged hunger.†   (source)
  • When the last sad rites of bereavement are over, do you know for certain that you have done your best for the Departed?†   (source)
  • At any rate we could send him to the guillotine first to cool his ardour, then, when there is a diplomatic fuss about it, we can apologise—humbly—to the British Government, and, if necessary, pay compensation to the bereaved family.†   (source)
  • By way of cheering the bereaved husband the churchwarden during dinner talked of a recent fire at Blackstable which had partly destroyed the Wesleyan chapel.†   (source)
  • Then with a mutual impulse the two bereaved women flung themselves into each other's arms and had a good, consoling cry, and then parted.†   (source)
  • I was there to protect and defend the little creatures in the world the most bereaved and the most lovable, the appeal of whose helplessness had suddenly become only too explicit, a deep, constant ache of one's own committed heart.†   (source)
  • The man made it clear, however, that he fancied himself a specialist whose activities had to take place backstage, with only the results of his endeavors displayed for pious review by the bereaved—all of which aroused Hans Castorp's mistrust.†   (source)
  • And if Francoise then, inspired like a poet with a flood of confused reflections upon bereavement, grief, and family memories, were to plead her inability to rebut my theories, saying: "I don't know how to espress myself"—I would triumph over her with an ironical and brutal common sense worthy of Dr. Percepied; and if she went on: "All the same she was a geological relation; there is always the respect due to you†   (source)
  • Bereaved now of a father, now of a brother, now of more than these, they came seeking a life work in planting New England schoolhouses among the white and black of the South.†   (source)
  • They said that Whereas Almighty God in his beneficent mercy had seen fit to remove to a sphere of higher usefulness some thirty-six realtors of the state the past year, Therefore it was the sentiment of this convention assembled that they were sorry God had done it, and the secretary should be, and hereby was, instructed to spread these resolutions on the minutes, and to console the bereaved families by sending them each a copy.†   (source)
  • He got in all the details, and that is a good thing in a local item: you see, he had kept books for the undertaker-department of his church when he was younger, and there, you know, the money's in the details; the more details, the more swag: bearers, mutes, candles, prayers —everything counts; and if the bereaved don't buy prayers enough you mark up your candles with a forked pencil, and your bill shows up all right.†   (source)
  • If you said a patient couldn't live another month the family prepared itself for a bereavement, and if then the patient lived on they visited the medical attendant with the resentment they felt at having tormented themselves before it was necessary.†   (source)
  • But Judy, though she must have been apprised of Miss Bart's return, had not even recognized it by the formal note of condolence which her friend's bereavement demanded.†   (source)
  • It was Sue, whose coloured clothing, which she had never thought of changing for the mourning he had bought, suggested to the eye a deeper grief than the conventional garb of bereavement could express.†   (source)
  • They formed a pretty, suggestive, pathetic sight, of whose pathos and beauty they were themselves unconscious, and would not discover till, amid the storms and strains of after-years, with their injustice, loneliness, child-bearing, and bereavement, their minds would revert to this experience as to something which had been allowed to slip past them insufficiently regarded.†   (source)
  • That bereaved lady, fifteen years older than he, fell presently at deadly feud with her only relative, Lady Scadgers; and, partly to spite her ladyship, and partly to maintain herself, went out at a salary.†   (source)
  • I longed to be his; I panted to return: it was not too late; I could yet spare him the bitter pang of bereavement.†   (source)
  • He looked, of course, with the utmost scorn on Katerina's unexpected adventure, but he was very fond of the bereaved "kiddies," and had already taken them a picture-book.†   (source)
  • Then all her time and tenderness were devoted to the consolation and comfort of the bereaved old father, who was stunned by the blow which had befallen him, and stood utterly alone in the world.†   (source)
  • Leaving the bereaved old man alone with his sorrows, Duncan immediately returned into the open air, too much excited himself to seek the repose he had recommended to his veteran friend.†   (source)
  • The Duke of Foodle sends a splendid pile of dust and ashes, with silver wheel-boxes, patent axles, all the last improvements, and three bereaved worms, six feet high, holding on behind, in a bunch of woe.†   (source)
  • Yet he was pursuing his ordinary avocations, smiling mechanically to fellow-tradesmen, and arguing with bargainers—as bereaved men do after a while.†   (source)
  • The latter's distraction at his bereavement is a subject too painful to be dwelt on; its after-effects showed how deep the sorrow sunk.†   (source)
  • By an arrangement of Rivenoak's, some of the women around her had been employing the time in endeavoring to persuade the bereaved widow that there was still a hope Deerslayer might be prevailed on to enter her wigwam, in preference to entering the world of spirits, and this, too, with a success that previous symptoms scarcely justified.†   (source)
  • my poor, my bereaved father!†   (source)
  • ED. THE PUBLIC BEREAVEMENT†   (source)
  • Tom discovered Charing Village presently, and rested himself at the beautiful cross built there by a bereaved king of earlier days; then idled down a quiet, lovely road, past the great cardinal's stately palace, toward a far more mighty and majestic palace beyond—Westminster.†   (source)
  • Even organ-grinders earn their living, and everyone will see at once that we are different, that we are an honourable and bereaved family reduced to beggary.†   (source)
  • The very suddenness of her bereavement dulled, to some extent, Thomasin's feelings; yet, irrationally enough, a consciousness that the husband she had lost ought to have been a better man did not lessen her mourning at all.†   (source)
  • I went with a burdened spirit, and happened to sit next a poor, bereaved mother, whose heart was still heavier than mine.†   (source)
  • But while poor Silas's loss served thus to brush the slow current of Raveloe conversation, Silas himself was feeling the withering desolation of that bereavement about which his neighbours were arguing at their ease.†   (source)
  • [Tom's eyes were starting from their sockets—yes, it was a cruel day for the bereaved youth, everybody thought.†   (source)
  • 'Good Lord!' says he, 'Camilla, what can it signify so long as the poor bereaved little things are in black?'†   (source)
  • "This language, sir," said the marquis, "addressed to people in bereavement and grief is beyond all qualification."†   (source)
  • He had given them over as dead, and time had accustomed him to the bereavement; he had not ceased mourning for them, yet, as something distinguishable, they had simply dropped out of his plans and dreams.†   (source)
  • It must have been in reference to this outrage that Chanticleer, the next day, accompanied by the bereaved mother of the egg, took his post in front of Phoebe and Clifford, and delivered himself of a harangue that might have proved as long as his own pedigree, but for a fit of merriment on Phoebe's part.†   (source)
  • In due time the bereaved Farfrae had learnt the, at least, proximate cause of Lucetta's illness and death, and his first impulse was naturally enough to wreak vengeance in the name of the law upon the perpetrators of the mischief.†   (source)
  • And if he asked me why I wanted it, and why I thought I had any right to it, I would tell him, little as he cared for such poor dreams, that I had loved Estella dearly and long, and that although I had lost her, and must live a bereaved life, whatever concerned her was still nearer and dearer to me than anything else in the world.†   (source)
  • The King continued to struggle in the woman's strong grasp, and now and then cried out in vexation— "Unhand me, thou foolish creature; it was not I that bereaved thee of thy paltry goods."†   (source)
  • It was a great augmentation of my uneasiness to be bereaved, at this eventful crisis, of the inestimable services of Miss Mills.†   (source)
  • Fancy, at every village and homestead almost through the three kingdoms, the great news coming of the battles in Flanders, and the feelings of exultation and gratitude, bereavement and sickening dismay, when the lists of the regimental losses were gone through, and it became known whether the dear friend and relative had escaped or fallen.†   (source)
  • The disposition to hoard had been utterly crushed at the very first by the loss of his long-stored gold: the coins he earned afterwards seemed as irrelevant as stones brought to complete a house suddenly buried by an earthquake; the sense of bereavement was too heavy upon him for the old thrill of satisfaction to arise again at the touch of the newly-earned coin.†   (source)
  • This grim chief had thought it a degradation to permit his sister to become the wife of a pale-face of the Yengeese at all, and had only given a reluctant consent to the arrangement-one by no means unusual among the Indians, however—at the earnest solicitations of the bereaved widow; and it goaded him to the quick to find his condescension slighted, the honor he had with so much regret been persuaded to accord, condemned.†   (source)
  • I judged him to be a bachelor from the frayed condition of his linen, and he appeared to have sustained a good many bereavements; for he wore at least four mourning rings, besides a brooch representing a lady and a weeping willow at a tomb with an urn on it.†   (source)
  • Then, with assumed gravity, he said to the bereaved mother, "Sister, pray to the Lord that every dispensation of his divine will may be sanctified to the good of your poor needy soul!"†   (source)
  • As Henchard did not reply Donald practised a piece of music sotto voce, till, getting near the bereaved people's door, he stopped himself with— "Ah, as their father is dead I won't go on with such as that.†   (source)
  • Fury and pride in the bereaved are curbed when he accepts the penalty.†   (source)
  • And many complaints were made unto Sir Arthur of great wrongs that were done since the death of King Uther, of many lands that were bereaved lords, knights, ladies, and gentlemen.†   (source)
  • Idaios left the beautiful chariot, leaping down, but dared not stand his ground over his brother; nor could he have himself eluded death unless Hephaistos had performed the rescue, hiding him in darkness—thus to spare his father full bereavement, were he lost.†   (source)
  • Dad kept throwing around the word "bereavement," which sounds like the word for being attacked by beavers.†   (source)
  • If I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.†   (source)
  • What can man's wisdom In the restoring his bereaved sense?†   (source)
  • Thus, measuring things in Heaven by things on Earth,
    At thy request, and that thou mayest beware
    By what is past, to thee I have revealed
    What might have else to human race been hid;
    The discord which befel, and war in Heaven
    Among the angelick Powers, and the deep fall
    Of those too high aspiring, who rebelled
    With Satan; he who envies now thy state,
    Who now is plotting how he may seduce
    Thee also from obedience, that, with him
    Bereaved of happiness, thou mayest partake
    His punishment, eternal misery;
    Which would be all his solace and revenge,
    As a despite done against the Most High,
    Thee once to gain companion of his woe.†   (source)
  • And many complaints were made unto Sir Arthur of great wrongs that were done since the death of King Uther, of many lands that were bereaved lords, knights, ladies, and gentlemen.†   (source)
  • Hath wine bereaved me mine eyen sight?'†   (source)
  • 42:36 And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.†   (source)
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