All 12 Uses
lament
in
Little Women
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- A LAMENT (FOR S. B. PAT PAW)†
p. 109.6lament = express grief or regret
- Here lies Pip March,
Who died the 7th of June;
Loved and lamented sore,
And not forgotten soon.†p. 123.1 *lamented = expressed grief or regret - There was a queer smile about Mr. Brooke's mouth as he opened at poor Mary's lament.†
p. 141.9lament = express grief or regret
- And Mr. Brooke looked so contented and cheerful that Meg was ashamed to lament her hard lot.†
p. 142.7
- No one cried, no one ran away or uttered a lamentation, though their hearts were very heavy as they sent loving messages to Father, remembering, as they spoke that it might be too late to deliver them.†
p. 178.4lamentation = passionate expression of grief or sorrow
- The fever flush and the look of pain were gone, and the beloved little face looked so pale and peaceful in its utter repose that Jo felt no desire to weep or to lament.†
p. 201.3lament = express grief or regret
- You are a mere infant, but you'll go next, Jo, and we'll be left lamenting," said Laurie, shaking his head over the degeneracy of the times.†
p. 266.3lamenting = expressing grief or regret
- Pere la Chaise is very curious, for many of the tombs are like small rooms, and looking in, one sees a table, with images or pictures of the dead, and chairs for the mourners to sit in when they come to lament.†
p. 340.2lament = express grief or regret
- To which pathetic appeal Daisy would answer with a coo, or Demi with a crow, and Meg would put by her lamentations for a maternal revel, which soothed her solitude for the time being.†
p. 420.6lamentations = passionate expressions of grief or sorrow
- Laurie smiled, but he liked the spirit with which she took up a new purpose when a long-cherished one died, and spent no time lamenting.†
p. 437.1lamenting = expressing grief or regret
- The songs she sang, without lament,
In her prison-house of pain,
Forever are they sweetly blent
With the falling summer rain.†p. 515.8lament = express grief or regret - How Jo did enjoy her 'wilderness of boys', and how poor, dear Aunt March would have lamented had she been there to see the sacred precincts of prim, well-ordered Plumfield overrun with Toms, Dicks, and Harrys!†
p. 523.3lamented = expressed grief or regret
Definitions:
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(1)
(lament) to express grief or regret
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Although lament typically refers to a feeling or simple vocal expression, it can refer to a vocal expression as complex as a sad song or poem. It can even refer to sad, but non-vocal music -- as when Tennessee Williams references background music in A Streetcar Named Desire.