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  • The ladies bewailed the high prices of everything and asked the gentlemen if they thought good times would ever come back.†  (source)
  • They agreed that Mrs. Bennet should only hear of the departure of the family, without being alarmed on the score of the gentleman's conduct; but even this partial communication gave her a great deal of concern, and she bewailed it as exceedingly unlucky that the ladies should happen to go away just as they were all getting so intimate together.†  (source)
  • It was the strain of a forsaken lady, who, after bewailing the perfidy of her lover, calls pride to her aid; desires her attendant to deck her in her brightest jewels and richest robes, and resolves to meet the false one that night at a ball, and prove to him, by the gaiety of her demeanour, how little his desertion has affected her.†  (source)
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  • Their ghosts were rumored to walk the halls at night, bewailing their fate and complaining about the food in the Mess.†  (source)
  • What profit to bewail that which has always been and cannot change?†  (source)
  • Colonel Cathcart bewailed the miserable fate that had given him for an invaluable assistant someone as common as Colonel Korn.†  (source)
  • —Every moment she bemoans and bewails herself, and cries out that she does not admit any guilt, that she is the victim of circumstances—the victim of a wicked libertine.†  (source)
  • With groans and cries Misenus they deplore: Then on a bier, with purple cover'd o'er, The breathless body, thus bewail'd, they lay, And fire the pile, their faces turn'd away Such reverend rites their fathers us'd to pay.†  (source)
  • And it seemed to her that all the bitterness of her childhood, the terrors of her tempestuous father, the bewailings of her cruel-tongued mother were suddenly atoned for.†  (source)
  • "I imagine you'll be happy enough, once you get away," Irene told her one day when she was bewailing her approaching departure.†  (source)
  • She read two verses, lips moving, words murmuring in her throat: And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning, Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city!†  (source)
  • Our age is bewailed as the age of Introversion.†  (source)
  • The whole army bewails it and calls down curses upon him... CHAPTER VI†  (source)
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