Sample sentences for LACHRYMOSE

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Definition

tearful, inclined to be tearful, or causing tears

a bittersweet lachrymose story about...

"God bless you," the beggar chanted in a lachrymose voice.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Crime and Punishment
He commenced by being abjectly lachrymose.
Joseph Conrad -- Lord Jim
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.
Miguel de Cervantes -- Don Quixote
Newman inquired with interest about Mademoiselle Noemie; and M. Nioche, at first, for answer, simply looked at him in lachrymose silence.
Henry James -- The American
Doc Daneeka demanded, lifting his delicate immaculate dark head up from his chest to gaze at Yossarian irascibly for a moment with lachrymose eyes.
Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
He was by turns devout and obscene, merry and lachrymose.
W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage
I was Byron, and the tree was Byron's tree, lachrymose, down-showering, lamenting.
Virginia Woolf -- The Waves
You might have thought that Leonora would be just calmly loathing and he lachrymosely contrite.
Ford Madox Ford -- The Good Soldier
Each morning, as my students filed into the class, flipping me a dutiful, lachrymose good-morning, I would turn on the radio to catch the latest news.
Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
CHAPTER X Over the waffles next morning, Pittypat was lachrymose, Melanie was silent and Scarlett defiant.
Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind
The sun was beginning to set over the inky depths of Lake Lachrymose, and a cold evening wind was beginning to blow.
Lemony Snicket -- The Wide Window
"Goodness, man, don't be so lachrymose."
D.H. Lawrence -- Sons and Lovers
I suppose Catherine fulfilled her project, for the next sentence took up another subject: she waxed lachrymose.
Emily Bronte -- Wuthering Heights
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.
Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre
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.
Thornton Wilder -- The Bridge of San Luis Rey
But I would not be lachrymose: I dashed off the salt drops, and busied myself with preparing breakfast.
Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre
The Lake Lachrymose Police Department will be happy to capture a known criminal wanted for fraud, murder, and the endangerment of children.
Lemony Snicket -- The Wide Window
Well, at this very moment the Lachrymose Leeches are probably finding her very sweet indeed.
Lemony Snicket -- The Wide Window
With a little gasp and a big splash she fell into the waters of Lake Lachrymose.
Lemony Snicket -- The Wide Window

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