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lachrymose
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    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)
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    I suppose Catherine fulfilled her project, for the next sentence took up another subject: she waxed lachrymose.†  (source)
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    Doc Daneeka demanded, lifting his delicate immaculate dark head up from his chest to gaze at Yossarian irascibly for a moment with lachrymose eyes.†  (source)
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    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.†  (source)
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    You might have thought that Leonora would be just calmly loathing and he lachrymosely contrite.†  (source)
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    "God bless you," the beggar chanted in a lachrymose voice.†  (source)
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    They missed living over Lake Lachrymose with Aunt Josephine.†  (source)
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    I was Byron, and the tree was Byron's tree, lachrymose, down-showering, lamenting.†  (source)
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    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)
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    He was by turns devout and obscene, merry and lachrymose.†  (source)
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    Goodness, man, don't be so lachrymose.†  (source)
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    He commenced by being abjectly lachrymose.†  (source)
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    Newman inquired with interest about Mademoiselle Noemie; and M. Nioche, at first, for answer, simply looked at him in lachrymose silence.†  (source)
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