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After their arguments, tears would burst like rivers in flood and lamentations rose like smoke from the house.
For the last few years, Victoria's walls have reverberated with lamentations of the defunct student days of yore.
More lamentations than actual singing, the voice becomes an integrant part of each track.
Bendy buses have fully replaced them on only three, and newer double-deckers on the rest. Nor are the lamentations universal.
I noticed a funereal blaze burning on the shore, and heard the lamentations of women and men.
Well, I think these lamentations have been happening since probably the turn of the century.
Looking constructively for ways out of the crisis instead of indulging in lamentations is nowadays the general mindset in most companies.
This tremulous structure, on a piano which tries to flee its pain and a biting guitar to desperate lamentations, is simply fascinating.
What heart without evaporating in sighs can ponder the burden of deepest sorrows and lamentations of parents, children, husbands, wives, kinsmen, friends.
And those of us reared on MTV, for all the lamentations about our laziness and our sense of entitlement, are just about grown up.
Isis was so associated with mourning in Egypt, at funeral services women were hired to call out loud wailing lamentations as the body was escorted to the grave.
But not lamentations in the sense of tombs of the period, rather lamentation on the loss of meaning in art, a reflection on art itself.
Full of despair, he carries the corpses into his living room, singing lamentations accompanied by a double bass.
Those lamentations are born of the material, which, as you know, has only one existence.
On the Ninth of Av, when the congregation gathers to read the scroll of lamentations, people do not greet each other.
The martyrs, with their example and their intercession, help us today not to let ourselves succumb to discouragement and confusion, and to avoid inertia and sterile lamentations.
Negative advertising often elicits loud lamentations.
Without that we should be left listening from morning till night to the lamentations of them all as a whole, and each man in particular would be everlastingly coming to ask for explanations, axioms and so forth.
There is therefore no place for the lamentations of a former Director-General of Police who, right here today, is owning up to his failure, his frustration and his lack of patriotism.
They will receive fine clothing and festival unguent in place of the dust poured on the head and the veil worn over the face in the ceremonial lamentations for the dead.
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Gradually He began to break out in wild lamentations, even as rdh had talked in delirium on meeting with Uddhav.
The news he gave them was to be read in the lamentations with which they disturbed the morning air.
I saw that the lout was astonished not to hear the lamentations he expected.
This story of the two girls weeping, and filling Madame's bedroom with the noisiest lamentations, was Malicorne's chef-d'oeuvre.
No, certainly Uthoug junior had not come with lamentations and condolences.
But, notwithstanding his tears and lamentations, he kept urging on his dapple to get far enough from the cart.
Outside in the open was heard the clash of arms, plaintive wails and lamentations of the tangi for the dead.
When we last saw them a man had been hired to carry home the pigling, whose lamentations still rent the air.
Daddy Jacques had no sooner uttered these words of pity and protestation than tears and lamentations broke out from the concierges.
The seaman and travelers awaited their end with lamentations.
Pausing in her lamentations, she surveyed him with a glance of awe and horror, then burst forth anew.
At the sight of him the women broke into loud lamentations, for they looked upon the signing of a will as the signing of a death warrant.
Their remoteness and unpunctuality, or their exorbitant charges and frauds, will be drawing forth bitter lamentations.
Here the child was interrupted by bursts of groans, sobs, and lamentations, which broke from all present, and in which her slender voice was lost entirely.
He was a tearful boy, and broke into such deplorable lamentations, when a cessation of our connexion was hinted at, that we were obliged to keep him.
He is forever boring his friends with these egotistic lamentations.
Leaving Corny to his lamentations, the duke walked towards the door.
Her days and nights were passed in lamentations, tears, and prayers.
The tears and lamentations in the drawing-room were irresistible.
Presently she was in, and, squatting by the side of the corpse in such a fashion that I could not get to the door, she began to make lamentations and to cal down curses on me.
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