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- an Old Testament book lamenting the desolation of Judah after the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC; traditionally attributed to the prophet Jeremiah
How To Use Lamentations In A Sentence
- Lamentations" (2007) is estimated at £6,000-£8,000. An Emerging Art Market: Turkish Contemporary
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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!
