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Definition of Bewails
1. bewail [v] - See also: bewail
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bewails
Literary usage of Bewails
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1847)
"... bewails his fathers death, couli! moderate his passions in other matters, (as
he confesseth) but not in this, ields wholly to sorrow, * \IIMC fateor do ..."
2. Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson: With Copious Indexes by Samuel Austin Allibone (1875)
"... And not commit those sins thou hast bewail'd, He that bewails and not forsakes
them too, Confesses rather what he means to do. QUARLES. ..."
3. The Five Great Skeptical Dramas of History by JOHN. OWEN (1896)
"... so far as hasty wishes can accomplish it, a wreck, and a chorus of spirits
bewails the wholesale annihilation his curses are supposed to have effected. ..."
4. The Lusiad: Or, The Discovery of India: an Epic Poem by Luís de Camões, William Julius Mickle (1809)
"... o'er Ganges' smiling vales No more the hind his plunder'd field bewails : O'er
every field, O Peace, thy blossoms glow, The golden blossoms of thy olive ..."
5. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1847)
"... bewails his fathers death, couli! moderate his passions in other matters, (as
he confesseth) but not in this, ields wholly to sorrow, * \IIMC fateor do ..."
6. Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson: With Copious Indexes by Samuel Austin Allibone (1875)
"... And not commit those sins thou hast bewail'd, He that bewails and not forsakes
them too, Confesses rather what he means to do. QUARLES. ..."
7. The Five Great Skeptical Dramas of History by JOHN. OWEN (1896)
"... so far as hasty wishes can accomplish it, a wreck, and a chorus of spirits
bewails the wholesale annihilation his curses are supposed to have effected. ..."
8. The Lusiad: Or, The Discovery of India: an Epic Poem by Luís de Camões, William Julius Mickle (1809)
"... o'er Ganges' smiling vales No more the hind his plunder'd field bewails : O'er
every field, O Peace, thy blossoms glow, The golden blossoms of thy olive ..."
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