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express strong regret

He was too well accustomed to suffering, and had suffered too much where he was, to bewail the prospect of change very severely.
Dickens, Charles -- Oliver Twist Or The Parish Boy's Progress

And you both come to bewail the deed to me, as if you were the people to be pitied
Bronte, Emily -- Wuthering Heights
And she burst into sobs with the despairing vehemence with which people bewail disasters they feel they have themselves occasioned.
Tolstoy, Leo -- War and Peace
Don't worry too much," said Mo, whenever Elinor bewailed their stupidity.
Cornelia Funke -- Inkheart
It is a flame spirit in you ever gathering more of itself, While you, heedless of its expansion, bewail the withering of your days.
Kahlil Gibran -- The Prophet
Yet, lest they faint At the sad sentence rigorously urged, (For I behold them softened, and with tears Bewailing their excess,) all terrour hide.
John Milton -- Paradise Lost
Then she bewailed the marriage bed whereon Poor wretch, she had conceived a double brood, Husband by husband, children by her child.
Sophocles -- Oedipus the King
Three times over, Erik fiercely bewailed his fate: "You don't love me!
Gaston Leroux -- The Phantom of the Opera
—I came not to bewail this evil chance with your Grace, until I had done my best to remedy it.
Sir Walter Scott -- Ivanhoe
She was so pathetic in her sobbing and bewailing, that I felt as if I had said I don't know what to hurt her.
Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield
The ladies bewailed the high prices of everything and asked the gentlemen if they thought good times would ever come back.
Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind
In magnificent solitude he marched toward the house, while Hugh bewailed his sin and the overclouding of august favor.
Sinclair Lewis -- Main Street
Thy ambition, Thou scarlet sin, robb'd this bewailing land Of noble Buckingham, my father-in-law.
William Shakespeare -- Henry VIII
What profit to bewail that which has always been and cannot change?
Kamala Markandaya -- Nectar in a Sieve
The whole army bewails it and calls down curses upon him....
Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
"That he will," returned Sancho, "for he seems in a mood to bewail himself for a month at a stretch."
Miguel de Cervantes -- Don Quixote
She spoke about her husband's passion for dice with the deepest grief; she bewailed it to everybody who came to her house.
William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair
And you both come to bewail the deed to me, as if you were the people to be pitied!
Emily Bronte -- Wuthering Heights
There would come a day, in fact, years later, when Laila would no longer bewail his loss.
Khaled Hosseini -- A Thousand Splendid Suns
Colonel Cathcart bewailed the miserable fate that had given him for an invaluable assistant someone as common as Colonel Korn.
Joseph Heller -- Catch-22

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