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Definition
to express grief or regret
- "My dear, my little girl!" he lamented.Chapter 6 (3% in)
- He assembled the class, he lamented that any Winnemac Man could place a pancreas in a banker's hat, and he demanded that the criminal be manly enough to stand up and confess.Chapter 3 (20% in)
- He said goodby, with lamentations and considerable beer; he found a room for Leora nearer to the hospital; and he emerged as Martin L. Arrowsmith, M.D., house physician in the Zenith General Hospital.Chapter 10 (99% in)
- He crawled past her lamentations and the man's sorrow and drove home, empty of heart.Chapter 15 (80% in)
- As he turned and turned in his hotel bed he lamented, "And probably the Sondelius lecture will be rotten.Chapter 17 (62% in)
- "I should go to bed at midnight," he lamented, "but it is a cardinal sin to interrupt good talk.Chapter 17 (88% in)
- Sondelius came to Martin lamenting, "Slim—if I may call you so, like Terry—I think you and your Gottlieb are right.Chapter 32 (78% in)
There are no more uses of "lament" in Arrowsmith.
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