How To Use Lamentation In A Sentence

  • Lamentations" (2007) is estimated at £6,000-£8,000. An Emerging Art Market: Turkish Contemporary
  • He was afire with every kind of sorrow, lamentation and despair. THE BROKEN GOD
  • There was lamentation throughout the land at news of the defeat.
  • In the first nocturn, the Church sings lessons from the Lamentations of Jeremiah, with a special melody famous for its solemnity and beauty, and entirely appropriate to the text. Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 5 - Tenebrae and the Divine Office of the Triduum
  • Talk to them of education; they will readily acknowledge that it's "a braw thing to be weel learned," and begin a lamentation, which is only shorter than the lamentations of Literary and General Lectures and Essays
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  • American novelists have done their bit to swell the chorus of lamentation.
  • Estrin's novel, titled The Lamentations of Julius Marantz (Unbridled Books, 2007), twists the rapture into a comic conspiracy of the right wing US government and the Sierra Club (among others) designed to rid the government of its leftist and Islamic enemies, end the leak in the ozone, and consolidate the government's right wing political base. Marc Estrin Takes on the Rapture in The Lamentations of Julius Marantz
  • Lamentations 3 is an acrostic on the Hebrew alphabet, each letter given three lines: three alephs, three beths, three gimmels, and so on.
  • And in this time of Pasque our mother holy church ne doth but joy and maketh solation for the resurrection of Jesu Christ, and therefore is then said: Alleluia, which signifieth joy and consolation, for after that creature hath done penance by virtue of humility in weepings and lamentations he must lead after, joy and very consolation. The Golden Legend, vol. 7
  • Following that exchange, his dolor and lamentations were both replaced with one sensation: rage.
  • It is very doubtful whether, to an untried or a young man, the warnings of Solomon, or the outpourings of that griefful prophet whose name now passes for a lamentation, have done much good. Brave Men and Women
  • More lamentations than actual singing, the voice becomes an integrant part of each track.
  • The lamentations of Jeremiah have the form of an acrostic, that is, the verses begin with the letters of the Hebrew alphabet in regular order, the first with The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome
  • His lamentation is lengthened and restlessness is strengthened and he is as he were The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • In every street there shall be wailing: and in all places that are without, they shall say: Alas, alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful in lamentation to lament. The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision
  • Among his compositions are numerous masses for four, five, and six voices, settings of the "Lamentations" for four and six voices, a large number of motets for from three to six voices, and settings of the The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 16 [Supplement]
  • After the fall of that hero, this my sister Subhadra stricken with grief, indulged in loud lamentations, when she saw Kunti, like a female ospray. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18
  • Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing. The Bible, King James version, Book 30: Amos
  • There are litanies of longing, litanies of lamentation and litanies of loving concern. Times, Sunday Times
  • Are we blood-hungry Democrats eager to vanquish our enemies and hear the lamentations of their women, or are we a bunch of soft-middled hipster know-it-alls who listen to This American Life and sip herb tea? Obama Rips Rudy: "Has Taken Politics Of Fear To New Low
  • Sometimes I suspected that my uncle liked the frowsty old play because he acted the part of the Father in it, with one scene of tearful rejoicing that his son had come of age at the beginning, one of tearful lamentation when he thought his son dead near the middle, and one of tearful reunion when his son appeared alive and well at the end. Wicked Will
  • A long-legged lad, of about thirteen, with a brog or awl was teasing out the end of a flambeau in preparation to light it for some purpose not to be guessed at, and a servant lass, pock-marked, with one eye on the pot and the other up the lum, as we say of a glee or cast, made a storm of lamentation, crying in John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
  • Following that exchange, his dolor and lamentations were both replaced with one sensation: rage.
  • What sense is there in lamentation sae lang's God's eident settin richt a '! Heather and Snow
  • Through the total fading away and extinction of craving, decay and death, sorrow, lamentation, suffering, grief, and despair are extinguished.
  • Minna Harkavy (1895 – 1987), born in Estonia, also sculpted An American Miner’s Family in 1931, and reacted to the Holocaust in her 1939 statue of a sad mother and child, titled Lamentations, and in her later The Last Prayer. Art in the United States.
  • Through the total fading away and extinction of craving, decay and death, sorrow, lamentation, suffering, grief, and despair are extinguished.
  • To this conduce the elegiac tone of the Lamentations, which is only occasionally interrupted by intermediate tones of hope; the complaints against false prophets and against the striving after the favour of foreign nations; the verbal agreements with the Book of The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
  • The ceremonies of initiation in the Adonia began with lamentation for his loss, -- or, as the prophet Ezekiel expresses it, "Behold, there sat women weeping for Thammuz," -- for such was the name under which his worship was introduced among the Jews; and they ended with the most extravagant demonstrations of joy at the representation of his return to life, [23] while the hierophant exclaimed, in a congratulatory strain, -- The Symbolism of Freemasonry
  • Hardly any kind of Hebrew poesy is absent; epithalamia and lamentations; little satirical songs; odes of wonderful lyrism etc. The fundamental law of Hebrew poetry, the parallelism of the stichs, is usually observed. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
  • The readings of the first nocturn of Tenebrae are from the Lamentations of Jeremiah and have, in our rite, a special and distinctive "funereal" chant. Tenebrae at Blackfriars Oxford
  • The husband or wife chants a song of praise and lamentation (mourning).
  • Yet here, too, his artificiality is a serious blemish, his lamentations for the loss of the _pueri delicati_ of friends do not, and can hardly be expected to, ring true, and the same blemish affects even the poems where he laments his own loss. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
  • In truth, we touch the essence of his reflexion on cinema - as though he had to resort to all the subtleties of reason in order to appease his lamentations.
  • Highly effective as a literary dirge and lamentation, it comes up short when judged by the standards of the history discipline.
  • Lord: In every street there shall be wailing: and in all places that are without, they shall say: Alas, alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful in lamentation to lament. The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 2
  • When it arrived, the people of Baghdad went forth to meet it and I went forth with them: and I saw the damsel among the women and she the loudest of them in lamentation, crying out and wailing with a voice that rent the vitals and made the heart ache. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • It's the orgy, the bacchanal, that is to still the lamentations of the poor! An Eagle Flight A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere
  • ¶ Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing. Amos 5.
  • In fact, here's what two African American residents wrote to a Boston abolitionist not long after the day in 1846 when Alexandrians (white, male) voted to approve the return of their city to Virginia, an act called retrocession: "[The] poor colored people of this city ... were standing in rows on either side of the Court House, and, as the votes were announced every quarter of an hour, the suppressed wailings and lamentations of the people of color were constantly ascending to God for help and succor, in this the hour of their need. The slave trade and Alexandria's withdrawal from D.C.
  • “O my lord, my lamentation is for thee, because thou art in sore straits, for all thy fair fortune and goodliness and exceeding comeliness, seeing thou hast naught wherewithal to do and receive delight, like unto other men.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the LORD, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing. Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences
  • Next came a double file of priests in their surplices, with a missal in one hand and a lighted wax taper in the other, chanting the funeral dirge at intervals -- now pausing, and then again taking up the mournful burden of their lamentation, accompanied by others, who played upon a rude kind of bassoon, with a dismal and wailing sound. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 France and the Netherlands, Part 1
  • Much lamentation followed the death of the old king.
  • Lamentations 1: 27. "The afternoon inhabitants of the building were women on pensions or welfare, the old, the unemployed, and a few crooks. TROPIC OF NIGHT
  • It moves in lengthened elegiac measure like a song of lamentation for the dead, and is full of lofty scorn" [Herder]. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • So, too, the poetry of grief and lamentation is one of the deepest and most long-standing elements in poetry. Día de los Muertos
  • Do you think we remember your lamentation is a post earlier today on another thread that you had never been polled? Palin To Go On Attack Against Biden On ... Foreign Policy?
  • On the way to lunch we checked the surf again, noted that the sea birds are on their way north from the Bolsa Chica refuge, and sang as much of the triduum "Lamentations" as we could remember. 04/01/2003 - 05/01/2003
  • I do not know that I like to think of those Roman mines myself, where it is said the sea now surges back and forth: they must have been worked by British slaves, who may be fancied climbing purblindly out when the legions left Britain, and not joining very loudly in the general lamentation at their withdrawal, but probably tempering the popular grief with the reflection that the heathen Saxons could not be much worse. Seven English Cities
  • The collected microfilms contain medieval manuscripts of musical compositions, such as missals, antiphonaries, graduals, passions, lamentations, lute and organ tabulatures, as well as treatises on the theory of music.
  • And he repeated to the King the tale of how he would have followed the Religious, but he forbade him, whereupon the folk broke out into a tumult of weeping and lamentation and humbled themselves before Him who is ever near, Him who ever answereth prayer, supplicating that He would cause the false Devotee who denied The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Father, thou hearest thy children's lamentation; say, shall I e'er, as warrior dight, avenge thy slaughter? The Suppliants
  • Yes, there would always be pain, and none could escape the flames of hatred, sorrow, lamentation and despair. THE BROKEN GOD
  • The book familiarly known as the Lamentations consists of four elegies [1] (i., ii., iii., iv.) and a prayer (v.). Introduction to the Old Testament
  • _ Gazing in a dazed way at the awful sights of this circle, Dante learns it is twenty-one miles in circumference, ere he passes on to the next bridge, where lamentations such as assail one's ears in a hospital constantly arise. The Book of the Epic
  • For all the lamentations that schools do not teach the game, it is still played in some areas.
  • An hour had passed, when another Englishman was standing by the wailing girl, and round him a dozen shockheaded kernes, skene on thigh and javelin in hand, were tossing about their tawny rags, and adding their lamentations to those of the lonely watcher. Westward Ho!
  • IV. vi.124 (414,8) They'll roar him in again] As they _hooted_ at his departure, they will _roar_ at his return; as he went out with scoffs, he will come back with lamentations. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
  • When I had poured out my griefs in this long and unbroken strain of lamentation, she, with calm countenance, and in no wise disturbed at my complainings, thus spake: Consolation of Philosophy
  • The cool, groaning wind off the lapping waves carried murmurs of lamentation from distant corners of the world. THE LIGHTSTONE: BOOK ONE, PART ONE OF THE EA CYCLE
  • The voice of these Lamentations is a sixty-something, club-footed scientist named Julius Marantz, an obsessive researcher who suffers from both forbidden knowledge and and insistent conscience. The Lamentations of Julius Marantz by Marc Estrin: Book summary
  • The very late rabbinic midrash on Lamentations in fact takes this text explicitly as a messianic prophecy.
  • The results are consistent with theory and experiments of alien reports. It can provide reference for restraining filamentation.
  • He would have gone moping about for years in disconsolate solitude, silent and sullen as a ghost, or would have rent the air with unavailing shrieks and lamentations. Review
  • The response to the latter was lamentations that standards would inevitably dro (o) p and threats to withhold alumnus donations. TOC: The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF edited by Mike Ashley
  • Through the total fading away and extinction of craving, decay and death, sorrow, lamentation, suffering, grief, and despair are extinguished.
  • An hour had passed, when another Englishman was standing by the wailing girl, and round him a dozen shockheaded kernes, skene on thigh and javelin in hand, were tossing about their tawny rags, and adding their lamentations to those of the lonely watcher. Westward Ho!
  • Lamentations", settings of the liturgical hymns, a collection of motets, the well-know "Stabat Mater" for double chorus, litanies in honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the offertories for the ecclesiastical year. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
  • Inner diameter of capillary has important effect on the spectrum broadening when used to restrict filamentation in high pressure gas.
  • He could hear the sounding of matin invitatories; chimes telling a rosary of harmony over tortuous labyrinths of narrow streets, over cornet towers, over pepper-box pignons, over dentelated walls; the chimes chanting the canonical hours, prime and tierce, sexte and none, vespers and compline; celebrating the joy of a city with the tinkling laughter of the little bells, tolling its sorrow with the ponderous lamentation of the great ones. Là-bas
  • Forward!" he called blithely and boldly to the officer; while Crates, with loud lamentations, was protesting his innocence to the warrior who was putting fetters upon him. Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works
  • The inhabitants of a potent and peaceful capital, who visit without an anxious thought the garden of the adjacent country, will faintly picture in their fancy the distress of the Romans: they shut or opened their gates with a trembling hand, beheld from the walls the flames of their houses, and heard the lamentations of their brethren, who were coupled together like dogs, and dragged away into distant slavery beyond the sea and the mountains. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • I was reminded of the old Eastern saying: `Loss of money is bewailed with louder lamentation than a death. TANK OF SERPENTS
  • The want of opportunity to pay this compliment to Hector, furnishes Andromache with matter of lamentation, which is related in the Iliad. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 372, May 30, 1829
  • CHRISTMAS-KEEPING IN THE COUNTRY was revived in accordance with the commands of Queen Elizabeth, who listened sympathetically to the "Lamentations" of her lowlier subjects. Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries
  • But amid the lamentation was another current running through the grieving crowds, one of anger and suspicion. Caesars’ Wives
  • The fear, the sorrow, the cries and lamentations of the poor inhabitants are unexpressible; every one begging pardon, and embracing each other, crying, Forgive me, friend, brother, sister! Our Day In the Light of Prophecy
  • The readings of the first nocturn of Tenebrae are from the Lamentations of Jeremiah and have, in our rite, a special and distinctive "funereal" chant. Tenebrae at Blackfriars Oxford
  • Lamentations 3 is an acrostic on the Hebrew alphabet, each letter given three lines: three alephs, three beths, three gimmels, and so on.
  • In short, there was a babel of protest and lamentation.
  • There was lamentation throughout the land at news of the defeat.
  • 'Priam's lamentation, — — lamentations of Hecuba, &c.' ■ paraph rafe on Horace, The Works of the English Poets
  • The mechanism of filamentation formed by femtosecond pulse laser beam propagating in atmosphere is investigated.
  • They clapped their wings," said the tutor, "from the pain you put them to; and what you call chirping, were cries and lamentations. Ami des enfants. English
  • O Mary! this is the land of congyration — The bell knolled when we were there — I saw lights, and heard lamentations. — The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
  • Imagination pictures to him his funeral pomp -- the grave they are digging for him -- the lamentations that will accompany him to his last abode-the epicedium that surviving friendship may dictate; he persuades himself that these melancholy objects will affect him as painfully even after his decease, as they do in his present condition, in which he is in full possession of his senses. The System of Nature, Volume 1
  • And after such fashion he continued weeping and wailing till he swooned away for excess of sobbing and lamentation, wherefor Aladdin's mother was certified of his soothfastness. Tehran Winter
  • There was none saw him but wept over him and the women all lifted up their voices in lamentation as for the dead. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • The mechanism of filamentation formed by femtosecond pulse laser beam propagating in atmosphere is investigated.
  • The close association of actin bundles with the intracellular virions suggests that nucleation and filamentation of actin may be virus induced.
  • There was lamentation throughout the land at news of the defeat.
  • Pity you were so cross to him," observed Matilda, to whom: this lamentation was addressed. Agnes Grey
  • While this emphasis may reiterate the unprinted and thus exclusive nature of the poems, the distinction between tunes is undermined by the fact that both The Meddow Brow and Fortune were melodies to accompany ballads of lamentation.
  • Hardly any kind of Hebrew poesy is absent; epithalamia and lamentations; little satirical songs; odes of wonderful lyrism etc. The fundamental law of Hebrew poetry, the parallelism of the stichs, is usually observed. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
  • As if the world were his, he swung into the bar, where he found two yokels listening to the half-drunken lamentations of a middle-aged, plum-cheeked fellow in a shabby blue livery coatee with shabbier gilt buttons; and even while he was giving his order for a glass of mild, and Ambrotox and Limping Dick
  • 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.
  • And they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is situated beyond the Jordan: where celebrating the exequies with a great and vehement lamentation, they spent full seven days. The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision
  • Long as was her lamentation, and satisfied as she always felt to hear her own voice, her pause still came too soon for any reply from Camilla, who now felt the discovery of her situation to be inevitable, compulsatory and disgraceful. Camilla
  • A ‘threnody’ is a dirge, a song of lamentation; the artist intended to create an environment that would be conducive to meditation on death and destruction.
  • The aunt stood wringing her hands in a kind of stupefaction of sorrow, but my friend acted all the extravagancies of affliction — He held the body in his arms, and poured forth such a lamentation, that one would have thought he had lost the most amiable consort and valuable companion upon earth. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
  • Elsewhere, an army of male admirers, with their expressions of longing for sottish outbursts and fleshy curves in slips, echoes not only Paglia's wonderful 1992 essay on "pre-feminist" Taylor, "Hollywood's Pagan Queen", but the lamentations of the officially flesh-hating Vogue, which now declares that the woman, with all her absurd rocks, furs and white hotpants, is a fashion icon as well as a sex siren. The strange case of Liz Taylor as a 'real woman' role model | Catherine Bennett
  • For the last few years, Victoria's walls have reverberated with lamentations of the defunct student days of yore.
  • There in the gate the children gather, hanging round their mothers 'necks, and weep their piteous lamentation, "O mother, woe is me! torn from thy sight Achaeans bear me away from thee to their dark ship to row me o'er the deep to sacred Salamis or to the hill' on the Isthmus, that o'erlooks two seas, the key to the gates of Pelops. The Trojan Women

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