How To Use Lamentations In A Sentence
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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
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For all the lamentations that schools do not teach the game, it is still played in some areas.
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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!
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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
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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
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The very late rabbinic midrash on Lamentations in fact takes this text explicitly as a messianic prophecy.
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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
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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
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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!
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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
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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
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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
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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
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_ 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
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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
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Lamentations 3 is an acrostic on the Hebrew alphabet, each letter given three lines: three alephs, three beths, three gimmels, and so on.
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'Priam's lamentation, — — lamentations of Hecuba, &c.' ■ paraph rafe on Horace,
The Works of the English Poets
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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For the last few years, Victoria's walls have reverberated with lamentations of the defunct student days of yore.
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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.
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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
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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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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
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Lamentations 3 is an acrostic on the Hebrew alphabet, each letter given three lines: three alephs, three beths, three gimmels, and so on.
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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
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Following that exchange, his dolor and lamentations were both replaced with one sensation: rage.
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More lamentations than actual singing, the voice becomes an integrant part of each track.
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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
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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]
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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
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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
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Following that exchange, his dolor and lamentations were both replaced with one sensation: rage.
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Lamentations" (2007) is estimated at £6,000-£8,000.
An Emerging Art Market: Turkish Contemporary
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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