"Bewail" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... turf. They contemn the elaborate and costly honours of monumental structures, as mere burthens to the dead. They soon dismiss tears and lamentations; slowly, sorrow and regret. They think it the women's part to bewail their friends, the men's ...
— The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus • Tacitus
... Curiously enough, he finds that theological books pay the best, and it is of this class that his stock chiefly consists. Just as book-hunters have many 'finds' to gloat over, so perhaps booksellers have to bewail the many rarities which they have let slip through their fingers. It would be more than could be expected of human nature, as it is at present constituted, to expect booksellers to make a clean ...
— The Book-Hunter in London - Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting • William Roberts
... front with Toady, who was a sight to see as he drove off with his short legs planted against the boot, his elbows squared, and the big whip scientifically cracking now and then. Away they went, leaving poor Mrs. Snow to bewail herself dismally after she had smiled and ...
— Kitty's Class Day And Other Stories • Louisa M. Alcott
... the tale That chains me in this dreary cell, My fate unknown, my friends bewail, Oh, doctor, haste that fate to tell! Oh, haste my daughter's heart to cheer, Her heart, at once, 'twill grieve and glad To know, tho' chained and captive here, I am not mad! I ...
— Capitola the Madcap • Emma D. E. N. Southworth
... now, and ready to bewail his luck at having given up the chance of holding so great ...
— Rob Harlow's Adventures - A Story of the Grand Chaco • George Manville Fenn
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