Lexicographical Neighbors of Lachrymosely
Literary usage of Lachrymosely
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life of Mrs. Siddons by Thomas Campbell (1834)
"Hence my memory naturally reverts to her cheerful moments; and, as I cannot bear
to think of her gloomily, I have not written her life lachrymosely. ..."
2. The Metropolitan (1848)
"... looking most lachrymosely drunk. "You are going to deprive an anxious, doating
husband, of a fond and affected—I me m affec—tionate—wife; ..."
3. A Legacy of Historical Gleanings by Catharina Van Rensselaer Bonney (1875)
"In those good, palmy old days, sixty-seven years ago, many persons were then "
lachrymosely bewailing the existing state of things. ..."
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