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Definition of Bemoaning
1. bemoan [v] - See also: bemoan
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bemoaning
Literary usage of Bemoaning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Harleian Miscellany; Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1810)
"... concerning négociations of state, and their several interests in the kingdom ;
sadly bemoaning the fate of their deer and abhor"ed husbands. ..."
2. Sermons on Important Subjects by Samuel Davies, Albert Barnes, Thomas Gibbons (1841)
"have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, Thau hast chastised me, and I
was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, ..."
3. American Lands and Letters by Donald Grant Mitchell (1904)
"... too, there was a silent bemoaning of the lack of Hawthorne in 1862. From a
photograph taken by ..."
4. Sermons by Samuel Davies, Samuel Finley, William Buell Sprague (1864)
"I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus ; Thou hast chastised me, and
I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke ; turn thou me, ..."
5. Life in Danbury: Being a Brief But Comprehensive Record of the Doings of a by James Montgomery Bailey (1873)
"You leave your wife examining the chair and bemoaning its injuries, and go into
the kitchen and wash your skinned and bleeding hands with yellow soap. ..."
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