All 15 Uses of

lament

in

One Hundred Years of Solitude

"We'll never get anywhere," he lamented to Ursula.
Chpt 1 *

lamented = expressed grief or regret

On the first contact the bones of the girl seemed to become disjointed with a disorderly crunch like the sound of a box of dominoes, and her skin broke out into a pale sweat and her eyes filled with tears as her whole body exhaled a lugubrious lament and a vague smell of mud.†
Chpt 2

And as she was lamenting her misfortune, convinced that the wild behavior of her children was something as fearful as a pig's tail, Aureliano gave her a look that wrapped her in an atmosphere of uncertainty.†
Chpt 3

Jose Arcadio Buendia, sunk in an abyss of unawareness, was deaf to her lamentations.†
Chpt 6

But at the time when Ursula went to lament by his side he had lost all contact with reality.†
Chpt 6

Nothing made him desist except his own lamentable state of demoralization.†
Chpt 10

But when she saw her eating with her hands, incapable of giving an answer that was not a miracle of simplemindedness, the only thing that she lamented was the fact that the idiots in the family lived so long.†
Chpt 12

It was such a definite lament that Jose Arcadio Buendia woke up beside her and was happy with the idea that his son was going to be a ventriloquist.†
Chpt 13

The nun lunched at the house while she waited for the train back, and in accordance with the discretion they asked of her, she did not mention the child again, but Fernanda viewed her as an undesirable witness of her shame and lamented the fact that they had abandoned the medieval custom of hanging a messenger who bore bad news.†
Chpt 15

Ursula cried in lamentation when she discovered that for more than three years she had been a plaything for the children.†
Chpt 17

Both looked back then on the wild revelry, the gaudy wealth, and the unbridled fornication as an annoyance and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to fund the paradise of shared solitude.†
Chpt 17

Never a lament had been heard from that stealthy, impenetrable woman who had sown in the family the angelic seed of Remedios the Beauty and the mysterious solemnity of Jose Arcadio Segundo; who dedicated a whole life of solitude and diligence to the rearing of children although she could barely remember whether they were her children or grandchildren, and who took care of Aureliano as if he had come out of her womb, not knowing herself that she was his great-grandmother.†
Chpt 18

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