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Sentence Examples I wept, cravenly begged to serve, and vowed to do whatever they wanted me to do. When Lenin died, the soldiers sat on the curbstones and wept, and the workers ran from their machines and shook their fists to the skies. When I first arrived there, I climbed the stone staircase that wept in wintertime when it was cold and rainy, to the top floor. Adam curled up into a ball and wept as they punched him, kicked him, stamped on him. The support group for testicular cancer survivors portends the emasculation our society has embraced, wept over, and become addicted to. She had wept, curling embryonically under the duvet, hoping it would cover the nakedness of her flesh and her pain. While the king was falling on the ground, the inmates of gynaeceum wept, raising their hands in distress. She held the pillow to her face, letting it soak up her tears, and wept silently. The weary mother wept as the bus began its long journey back to her small village. Inside the apartment, Saeed's mother wept as she sat on the floor, surrounded by female relatives and other mourners. On Friday she was acquitted of the charge and wept with relief when she realised her nightmare was finally over. My beloved Elisabeta lay on the same bier where she had wept for me only four nights prior. Last night the singer was wearing a shorty one-piece and when I found out her name was Lorelei I fell to my knees and wept. Some members of the families wept as a military honour guard carried the coffins of the five into a specially erected marquee. A young woman wept in court as a jury cleared her of causing the death of a former pub landlord. He wept and lay face down on the ground until the emperor sent his servants over to raise him up and bring him. The teenager's mother wept and was comforted by his father as their son was led from the dock. Inside the apartment, his mother wept as she sat on the floor, surrounded by female relatives and other mourners. Rather unwisely Mr Morrison took himself off to Italy as the nation's landladies wept into their antimacassars. A mother broke down and wept when she visited the scene where her son was killed yesterday. Show More Sentences He wept for his cousin, he wept for his loneliness, and most of all he wept for the only woman he could ever love. Martin, who wept as he gave evidence, denied having booby-trapped the house or having lain in wait for the burglars. Sarah's brother wept and hugged his mother after showing police where the eight-year-old disappeared, the court heard. I put my face gently against his chest and wept openly onto his dark navy blue shirt. It was unexpectedly funny, so much so that I actually wept with laughter at one point. I think I had wept all the tears out of me during second period and break and lunch. I wept at the thought that anyone could be so breathtakingly cruel to the most innocent and defenseless members of our society. She wept because the tale she read was tragic, deeply sorrowful without more than the slightest bit of hope in it. Men and women around her rose spontaneously from their seats, embraced her warmly and wept for joy. No money changed hands, but, when it was over, the market trader handed her a pair of nylons as she wept. People just kept standing up to hail lost loved ones, while more attendees wept. One of the more recent stigmatics claimed not only to have Christ's wounds but also that religious statues wept in his presence. Five years later, he wept as the same pair brought home Britain's only gold in Atlanta. I wept every night, sometimes so long, that in the morning, my eyes were still red. This last detail reminds you why few really wept when the streetcars were replaced with buses. The singer reportedly broke down and wept onstage, even as her Chinese supporters cheered her on and called out to her not to cry. Clutching the chiton tight around myself, I ran to the courtyard and I almost wept when I saw everyone there. Climbing from the car he hurled his gloves to the ground and then wept uncontrollably. Landulf wept and lay face down on the ground until the emperor sent his proceres over to raise him up and bring him. His mother, a fairy queen wept, which was almost unheard for a fairy to show such human emotions. Show More Sentences The people prayed, wept, gnashed their teeth, pulled their hair, imploring the mercy of the Virgin Mary. She wept violently as she drew, making harsh, thick strokes across the paper. They seemed to stretch out their bony, senile fingers to grab her whilst the pitiful willow wept in sorrow at her distress. Many of them wept openly when he publicly renounced Tibet's claim to full independence. They wept over the plight of the unfortunate individual and his difficult life of travail. She grew up being teased for her plumpness, starved and binged and wept her way through adolescence. He wept where he knelt, against the wall outside the throne room, the room he and Fallen had been coroneted in a thousand years earlier. We have wept that God may show his beneficence his mercy and that his peace may come upon the people of Pakistan. A mounting swell of emotion crested in his soul, then broke like a storm-tossed wave on the shore of his heart, and he wept, silvery tears tracing down his pale cheeks. A besuited man wept openly, scrubbing his eyes with crumpled tissue. Princess Beatrice has said she wept with joy after conquering the summit of western Europe's tallest peak, Mont Blanc. Numerous people wept for their friends, husbands, parents, uncles, aunts, cousins, siblings and in some distressing cases, young sons and daughters. He wept inside for the pain that she was feeling, for having just found her father and to have him taken so cruelly from her was something that was nearly unendurable. In nearby Roanoke, I pulled my car off to the side of the road, listened to live radio reports from the scene and wept. Teenagers wept as the singing sensation sang inches from their faces and played along for the heaving crowd, which spilled out into the city centre. I have wept at the horrors inflicted by man on his fellow men. She wept bitterly when speaking of her crime, but not self-pityingly. Weeping family members of deceased on behalf of the accused also wept in joy as the gavel hit and the judge proclaimed that he would not allow another appeal of the case. So they laid her on a bier, and all seven of them sat down beside it and wept and wept for three whole days. And his big blue eyes filled with tears when his grandfather wept. Show More Sentences When she saw Rose and all her brothers, their mother wept tears of joy. Anjar's mother wept with joy, she could not believe that he had returned. I'm not a weeper, generally speaking, but yesterday I wept freely. The dead policeman's mother, Cindy Eaton, wept as she placed her bouquet alongside 100 wreaths and bunches of flowers left on the corner of Dibb Lane in honour of her son. The blisters had wept blood for a while, leaving him literally red-handed for the rest of the night. The Israelites were carried off to Babylon, where they wept by the waters. Some wept and women ululated defiantly as each body was taken from the makeshift morgue in a marble-floored section of the mosque. Certainly, later in the day it is reported that Henry and Anne both individually and privately wept for her death. But the Marlborough trainer wept tears of joy after watching bargain buy Paco Boy's victory in the Group 1 Lockinge Stakes at Newbury last month. The king commiserated with the Dowager Princess of Wales and wept with her. On such wise have they burned Me, taper-like, that o'er me The cup wept and the lyre Lament for my misgrace made. In the dressing room after the fight, Louis's Army touring companion, Sugar Ray Robinson, wept. Harley was stabbed by a disgruntled French refugee, the Marquis de Guiscard, in March, and Anne wept at the thought he would die. I wept for myself, but resigned my soul to the tyranny of Time and Circumstance, well weeting that Fortune is fair and constant to no man. Relatives of financial adviser Ian Ruddock, 34, wept as he was led to the cells. I silently wept as my daughter's husband rejected her. What would she do now that she was no longer a maiden but also barren? A security guard comforted a 12-year-old girl who wept in line. I didn't know, so I didn't try to get out of the truck,'' said Barra, who at times wept during her testimony. He knew that there had been no Hasmonean rescue, no Maccabean liberation, and he wept. That had upset her, she wept, and Donte is still recovering. Show More Sentences Miss Ferrie wept as she called for glucosamine to be more tightly controlled and to carry warnings about possible side-effects. He wept very little, but when he wept he howled aloud, and jabbered wild abuse, threats and recriminations through the wet torrent of his howling. One woman wept unconsolably right next to the soldiers firing at the crowd, crying out that her young son had been hit and dragged into a university campus on the street. Sure, knickerless bimbo Casey Batchelor showed all the emotional maturity of a foetus when she broke down and wept after lusty Lee shamelessly led her on and then ditched her. Ruth wept much but Sara set her beauty to a fierce grimness which, even when, as you shall hear later, she was manumitted, she never entirely lost. The King is described as having wept with joy at their report. He wept in court as he recalled the horrific moment its driver overcompensated trying to correct his steering, ending up in his path with no time for him to react. Examples from Classical Literature All this time the heavy sobbing of Felicien was heard, as upon the landing-place he wept in the enervation of hope. The mother said nothing, but gave him a large dish of black pudding, and Marleen still wept without ceasing. Brunhild, when she saw her girdle and her ring, wept, and her tears were tears of anger. She complained no more, she wept no more, she indulged no more in recrimination. The children wept, and Nana ran to him beseechingly, but he waved her back. Rachel wept to tell her the lack of news, but Miriam did not join in her tears. She wept bitterly, and took it to heart so, it preyed on her health and spirits. The ensanguined Sylla wept over the recital of the miseries he himself had caused. Then the vine and the snowdrop wept, and the pine-tree and the fir were very sad. Ellis irresistibly wept, but, by a motion of her hand, forbad his approach. Then the beast wept as the frore hills weep in the thaw, and the tears splashed big into the agate bowl. Jules sat beside Melinda to be comforted He wept for Honor, and praised his boy, gasconading with time-worn boasts. She wept a bit, and then she began to laugh and, in fact, went on about it like a giglet wench of twenty-five. But she was thinking of what she had told Hagen, and wept and wept and would not be comforted. It was then she had wept, shakingly, in a vast impatience with herself for trying to reason. He was all sorrow, and sniveled and blubbered and wept hot, blinding tears through the dark, leathery fingers of his hands. It waved gently, and wept not at all that peaceful Sunday morning when we made our way by path and strath into the dell of peace. These rays were joyless to the heart of the poor young girl, who wept and prayed. It is little wonder the exiles from the judaean hillsides wept beside the slimy River. And then Mrs. Lamont put her handkerchief to her face and wept for vexation. Show More Sentences His maiden looked up from her mother's lap where she wept for him, and fled shrieking. Submit Tewksbury wept, and shed tears time and agin, a-talkin' about it, and so several of 'em did. Submit Tewksbury cried and wept, and wept and cried, caused by remembrances, it wuz spozed. Reassured as to her husband, she wept for the first five victims of the 9th Thermidor, those illustrious and virtuous citizens. Thereat the tsarina wept bitterly, and fell to the ground as if dead with grief. He often called on me and we played duets for bassoon and tympani, and then read Amiel's journal aloud and wept. He unashamedly dropped into the chair behind the reading-desk and wept aloud. And certain French brothers, next to me, from devotion and piety wept as if unconsolable. Babbitt thundered, Mrs. Babbitt wept, Ted was unconvincingly defiant, and Verona in confusion as to whose side she was taking. Now we have wept over our mischance, we will bury it and look to the future. The bride's aunt wore her moire antique, with coral bracelets, and at breakfast in the restaurant she wept. While the man lay by the fire and wept, she cooked, and in the morning helped lash the sleds, and in the evening to unlash them. Appletree, for his part, spoke so movingly that the people all wept with him. She had wept because she was heroic and unscrupulous and full of love for both her children. Years later Meyer read to him an account of the Noachian Deluge, and he wept bitterly. Then Madame vigneron in all sincerity burst into tears and wept for the sister whom she loved so much. She had wept only in the struggle of obedience and the renunciation of passion. The watchers wept and wailed at first, and then fell to eating and drinking. Miss Wayland wrung her hands and wept, and most of the girls wept with her. And this is opinioned, because in holy Scripture it is recorded he sometimes wept, but never that he laughed. Show More Sentences Having with some difficulty gained admittance, optima rushed into my arms, and wept upon my breast. He told of old servants who had wept when he decided to close the house and go away. And now here was some one who wept because she had spoken of her mother to him. She had pled with him before, and knelt and wept and abased herself before him. But a little, able-bodied seaman, six weeks ago at Kiel, gave him a thrashing in a Bierhalle till he wept. She no longer wept, though he could see a tear still at the end of one of her lashes, agleam in the dark. When Guillardun heard these tidings she was astonied beyond measure, and for joy and pity wept right tenderly. And His augustness Izanagi wept aloud, dropping his tears upon her feet and upon her pillow. As he wept, bidi and Bidhati descended from the sky and asked him the reason of his sorrow. And all the while cheri moaned and wept and entreated to be taken home to his mother. Then the woman wept bitterly, and when she had wept her fill they buried the corpse. The desert rat sighed, but if in that supreme moment he wept it was not for himself. When Lir and the Dedannan people heard these words, they wept aloud. One morning, feeling more frisky than usual, she fell upon her knees and wept in the woodman's petticoat. The child wept so bitterly that Tom Hard was touched and tried to comfort her. As Bud passed through the gates, she no longer wondered that the exiled Fairies wept and sorrowed for the lovely home they had lost. Leopold Denham, 80, wept after being forced to travel in the guard's van of another Connex train. They actually wept, for the Yser is their nightmare, and with reason. This vexed her so mach that she wept day and night about it. He was jerked out of the way, into a room with the convicted prisoners, where he sat and wept like a child in his impotent rage. Show More Sentences The toper wept, and then tried to shake off the remembrance of the past. He wept her loss night and day, and his only comfort was to talk over it with a young and unknown prince, who had just arrived at the Court. Pietro entreated and threatened, pica wept and caressed, but all in vain. Nancy wept as she had never wept since coming to pinewood Hall. Now she had at last found tears, and she wept noiselessly but unceasingly. But by her still halting course and winding, woful way, you plainly saw that this ship that so wept with spray, still remained without comfort. He could have wept over the realization of his unqualified impotency. I nestled as close to him as I could go, and wept for blessedness. Now, with his head upon the woman's shoulder, he moaned and wept with pain and fright. He could almost understand why Tom had wept between Cannes and Nice. Somewhere in the house a child wept bitterly and a dog that had been sleeping by the stove arose and yawned. The maidens of Bernicia wept when the loss of Agitha was known. Ursula could not speak, but wept her joy and happiness on his bosom. Then, with another transition in voice and subject, allusions were made to the virgin who wept in the adjacent lodge. Her sister stood erect in grief like a daughter of Niobe wept into stone. I wept at the sight, thinking of my own damask rose so far away. Edna was sobbing, just as she had wept one midnight at Grand Isle when strange, new voices awoke in her. And ever after that they wept sweet tears of amber, clear as sunlight. Thus it happened that pretty, pure-hearted Lina sat in her room and wept. And then, amid his lore of wretchedness he hid his face and wept. Show More Sentences He was like a babe which, having wept its fill, raises its eyes and fixes upon a distant toy. When she got into bed she buried her face in the pillow and wept brokenheartedly. Five infatuated Mallares sputtered and wept and gnashed their teeth. The male, furious, beat her severely, and she grovelled and wept. She was the only woman who wept upon the scaffold and implored for mercy. He wept, and Sita hid her face in his bosom and soft embrace. The sudden arrest of his motion, the abrasion of one of his hands on the gravel, restored him, and he wept with delight. Ona sobbed and wept, her fear and anguish building themselves up into long climaxes. Big tears rolled down his face, but he smiled all the time that he wept. She wept about it, and begged the Inuit to help her get him back. They had with them a child upon seeing whom ita wept bitterly. My sister jeanne wept as she waved her arms towards the distance. Doubtless sympathy eased her somewhat, but she was very low in thought and spirit, and wept silently and weakly for a long time. The tears swam to her eyes and wretchedly and yet thankfully she wept. In Karlsruhe, according to von Hofstetten, Lassalle wept like a child. Charles and Hal begged her to get off and walk, pleaded with her, entreated, the while she wept and importuned Heaven with a recital of their brutality. The mess was left alone with the carbine-thief, who laid his head on the table and wept bitterly, hopelessly, and inconsolably as little children weep. Wagg wept before Fiche and implored his dear friend to intercede for him. Lying face downward she wept and beat with her fists upon the pillow. If they were a mind to allow it, they wouldn't ever have anything to do, year in and year out, but stand up and be hugged and wept on thirty-two hours in the twenty-four. Show More Sentences So saying, she embrac'd him, and for joy Tenderly wept, much won that he his Love Had so enobl'd, as of choice to incurr Divine displeasure for her sake, or Death. Beyond doubt, the boy had broken the taboos, and privily he told him so, until Lamai trembled and wept and squirmed abjectly at his feet, for the penalty was death. And the captain gasped out his last under the palm trees of the isle unnamable while the brown maidens wept about him and fanned the air to his parching lungs. Women and children and mighty warriors wept in gratitude for the fate that had restored their beloved Tardos Mors and the divine princess whom the whole nation idolized. They then fell upon each other's neck and wept scalding rills down each other's spine in token of their banishment to the Realm of Ineffable Bosh. And Lady Greystoke broke down and wept, as she pillowed her head upon the broad breast where so often before she had found comfort in the great tragedies of her life. Dilyaram Al Maty wept as she held her beloved child in her arms. Find more words! 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