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    1. With what remains of my rational mind, I bewail the fact that I had hoped that I had left this … this black curse behind when I came across … that it was linked to the migraine I suffered … but it would appear not


    2. Rev 18:9 And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,


    3. 40 On the seventh day the king went to bewail Daniel, and when he came to the den, he looked in, and saw, Daniel was


    4. 1 Woe is to you, Babylon, and Asia! Woe is to you, Egypt and Syria! 2 Clothe up yourselves with cloths of sack and hair; bewail your


    5. ceased not whole nights to bewail her son Tobias, until the fourteen days of the wedding were expired, which Raguel had sworn that


    6. 6 And Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons, Uncover not your heads, neither rend your clothes; lest you die, and lest wrath come on all the people: but let your brethren, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which the Lord has kindled


    7. 13 And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in your house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that you shall go in to her, and be her husband, and she shall be your wife


    8. 39 Then I let my thoughts go that I was in and turned myself to her 40 And said to her why weep you? Why are you so grieved in your mind? 41 And she said to me Sir let me alone that I may bewail myself and add to my sorrow for I am sore vexed in my mind and brought very low; 42 And I said to her what ails you? Tell me


    9. 44 They shall come to her and besiege her the star and all anger shall they pour out on her; then shall the dust and smoke go up to the heavens and all those who be about her shall bewail her


    10. 1 Woe is to you Babylon and Asia! Woe is to you Egypt and Syria! 2 Clothe up yourselves with cloths of sack and hair; bewail your children and be sorry for your destruction is at hand

    11. 7 But she said Hold your peace and deceive me not; my son is dead; And she went out every day into the way which they went and did eat no meat in the day time and ceased not whole nights to bewail her son Tobias until the fourteen days of the wedding were expired which Raguel had sworn that he should spend there; Then Tobias said to Raguel Let me go for my father and my mother look no more to see me


    12. their fate to bewail


    13. And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously within her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning, Revelation 18:10 (reconstructed)


    14. bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,


    15. bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of


    16. Oh, ye rural deities, whoever ye be that haunt this lone spot, give ear to the complaint of a wretched lover whom long absence and brooding jealousy have driven to bewail his fate among these wilds and complain of the hard heart of that fair and ungrateful one, the end and limit of all human beauty! Oh, ye wood nymphs and dryads, that dwell in the thickets of the forest, so may the nimble wanton satyrs by whom ye are vainly wooed never disturb your sweet repose, help me to lament my hard fate or at least weary not at listening to it! Oh, Dulcinea del Toboso, day of my night, glory of my pain, guide of my path, star of my fortune, so may Heaven grant thee in full all thou seekest of it, bethink thee of the place and condition to which absence from thee has brought me, and make that return in kindness that is due to my fidelity! Oh, lonely trees, that from this day forward shall bear me company in my solitude, give me some sign by the gentle movement of your boughs that my presence is not distasteful to you! Oh, thou, my squire, pleasant companion in my prosperous and adverse fortunes, fix well in thy memory what thou shalt see me do here, so that thou mayest relate and report it to the sole cause of all," and so saying he dismounted from Rocinante, and in an instant relieved him of saddle and bridle, and giving him a slap on the croup, said, "He gives thee freedom who is bereft of it himself, oh steed as excellent in deed as thou art


    17. overmasters me; and all I can do is bewail my lot in vain, and idly curse my destiny, and plead for my madness by telling how it was caused, to any that care to hear it; for no reasonable beings on learning the cause will wonder at the effects; and if they cannot help me at least they will not blame me, and the repugnance they feel at my wild ways will turn into pity for my woes


    18. immodest, there another condemns her as frail and frivolous; this pardons and absolves her, that spurns and reviles her; one extols her beauty, another assails her character, and in short all abuse her, and all adore her, and to such a pitch has this general infatuation gone that there are some who complain of her scorn without ever having exchanged a word with her, and even some that bewail and mourn the raging fever of jealousy, for which she never gave anyone cause, for, as I have already said, her misconduct was known before her passion


    19. "That he will," returned Sancho, "for he seems in a mood to bewail himself for a month at a stretch


    20. In this strain did Sancho bewail himself, and his ass listened to him, but answered him never a word, such was the distress and anguish the poor beast found himself in

    21. I will bewail my separation; thou shalt glorify thyself as a constant lover; the shepherd Carrascon will figure as a rejected one, and the curate


    22. separation which he never ceased to bewail


    23. accept his conditions or bewail to the end of my life the loss of immense wealth


    24. One morning that he had demanded money, threatening her with the severest consequences if she did not supply him with what he desired, he disappeared and remained away all day, leaving the kind-hearted Assunta, who loved him as if he were her own child, to weep over his conduct and bewail his absence


    25. Grief will soon have sucked away its life; grief will soon have rent it in twain! Yes, you will die where you be, and be laid to rest in the cold, moist earth where there is no one to bewail you


    26. They would hold little meetings in secret places to bewail their misery and to confer with one another as to which would be the best way to act


    27. [10] It is etiquette for a bride to bewail the approaching loss of her maidenhood


    28. Yet I know all; and though you have deprived me of all hope, and have rendered me an unhappy man, so that Nicolas Irtenieff will have to bewail his misery for the rest of his existence, yet do you take my sister,’ and I should lay his hand in Lubotshka’s


    1. 19 My soul has wrestled with her, and in my doings I was exact, I stretched out my hands to the Heaven above, and bewailed my


    2. 20 Moreover they bewailed him, and all Israel made great lamentation for him, and mourned many


    3. there they bewailed Jonathan, and them that were with him, and they were sore afraid; what for all Israel made great lamentation


    4. 26 And all Israel made great lamentation for him, and bewailed him many


    5. lamentable, were set on fire as they bewailed the sudden destruction which was decreed against them


    6. 38 And he said, Go; and he sent her away for two months, and she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity on the mountains


    7. 20 Moreover they bewailed him and all Israel made great lamentation for him and mourned many days saying 21 How is the valiant man fallen that delivered Israel! 22 As for the other things concerning Judas and his wars and the noble acts which he did and his greatness they are not written for they were very many


    8. 52 Upon which they all came into the land of Judea peaceably and there they bewailed Jonathan and them that were with him and they were sore afraid; what for all Israel made great lamentation


    9. 26 And all Israel made great lamentation for him and bewailed him many days


    10. 2 The Jews suffered great throes of sorrow and wept much; while their hearts all things around being lamentable were set on fire as they bewailed the sudden destruction which was decreed against them

    11. 10 Ah that I who had many and fair children should be a lone widow full of sorrows! 11 Nor should I die shall I have a son to bury me; But with such a lament as this the holy and God-fearing mother bewailed none of them


    12. As he passed by, many of these women bewailed and lamented


    13. companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains


    14. The mother bewailed, “I missed my son


    15. When Jesus was being led to be crucified "there followed him a great multitude of the people, and of whom men who bewailed and lamented him


    16. She was irritated by an ill-served dish or by a half-open door; bewailed the velvets she had not, the happiness she had missed, her too exalted dreams, her narrow home


    17. Altisidora, to all appearance, loved me truly; she gave me the three kerchiefs thou knowest of; she wept at my departure, she cursed me, she abused me, casting shame to the winds she bewailed herself in public; all signs that she adored me; for the wrath of lovers always ends in curses


    18. palace in the garden, where she wept and bewailed him for two years


    19. The ladies bewailed the high prices of everything and asked the gentlemen if they thought good times would ever come back


    20. Yet such is the vulpine slyness of Dame Nature, that, till now, Tess had been hoodwinked by her love for Clare into forgetting it might result in vitalizations that would inflict upon others what she had bewailed as misfortune to herself

    21. Three times over, Erik fiercely bewailed his fate:


    22. In private, as we have already said, he bitterly bewailed the sufferings of his troops, but in public he assumed a tranquil air, and gave orders that every one should keep his proper place in the ranks


    1. 1 And then came in like manner other angels weeping and bewailing, and saying with fear, Behold how we are overclouded, O Lord,


    2. 1 And then came in like manner other angels weeping and bewailing and saying with fear Behold how we are overclouded O Lord for we were delivered to evil men and we wish to depart from 2 them; And Michael said You cannot depart from them in order that the enemy may not prevail to 3 the end; but say to me what you ask; And they said We pray you Michael our commander transfer us from them for we cannot abide with wicked and foolish men for there is nothing good 4 in them but every kind of unrighteousness and greed


    3. The host furnished him with what he required, and Sancho brought it to Don Quixote, who, with his hand to his head, was bewailing the pain of the blow of the lamp, which had done him no more harm than raising a couple of rather large lumps, and what he fancied blood was only the sweat that flowed from him in his sufferings during the late storm


    4. "This is the place, oh, ye heavens, that I select and choose for bewailing the misfortune in which ye yourselves have plunged me: this is the spot where the overflowings of mine eyes shall swell the waters of yon little brook, and my deep and endless sighs shall stir unceasingly the leaves of these mountain trees, in testimony and token of the pain my persecuted heart is suffering


    5. O, treacherous Don Fernando! robber of my glory, death of my life! What seekest thou? Remember that thou canst not as a Christian attain the object of thy wishes, for Luscinda is my bride, and I am her husband!' Fool that I am! now that I am far away, and out of danger, I say I should have done what I did not do: now that I have allowed my precious treasure to be robbed from me, I curse the robber, on whom I might have taken vengeance had I as much heart for it as I have for bewailing my fate; in short, as I was then a coward and a fool, little wonder is it if I am now dying shame-stricken, remorseful, and mad


    6. Guadiana your squire, likewise bewailing your fate, was changed into a river of his own name, but when he came to the surface and beheld the sun of another heaven, so great was his grief at finding he was leaving you, that he plunged into the bowels of the earth; however, as he cannot help following his natural course, he from time to time comes forth and shows himself to the sun and the world


    7. eyes, singing softly to herself a song bewailing her sad destiny, which had


    8. 5:7,8] Thus, therefore, he now went on bewailing his sinful sleep, saying, O wretched man that I am that I should sleep in the day-time! that I should sleep in the midst of difficulty! that I should so indulge the flesh, as to use that rest for ease to my flesh, which the Lord of the hill hath erected only for the relief of the spirits of pilgrims!


    9. But while he was thus bewailing his unhappy miscarriage, he lift up his eyes, and behold there was a very stately palace before him, the name of which was Beautiful; and it stood just by the highway side


    10. 17:4] Thus they lay bewailing themselves in the net

    11. She was preparing for her ninth lying-in; and after bewailing the circumstance, and imploring their countenance as sponsors to the expected child, she could not conceal how important she felt they might be to the future maintenance of the eight already in being


    12. "One elderly lady was bewailing to a steward that she had lost everything


    13. And lastly, in a street near the poultry market, a group of small burgesses, numbering about forty, whose clothes were in tatters, and whose faces, through the combined effects of fear, hunger, and cold, retained scarcely any semblance of humanity, waited till the suite approached the end of the street, then fell on their knees, stretching out their arms to the Emperor, bewailing what they had suffered, lamenting their utter ruin, and begging for mercy and bread!


    14. It seemed to him that the mourning daughters of Nereus were tossing hither and thither on the shore bewailing the death of the best of the Athenians and the folly of the frenzied city


    1. “In his Bull he bewails the sins of Christendom that had brought upon them the scourge that was the occasion of his invitation


    2. daughter of Zion, that bewails herself, that spreads her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers


    3. He bewails that he cannot even stand properly and look


    4. Do you not see that Moor, who silently and stealthily, with his finger on his lip, approaches Melisendra from behind? Observe now how he prints a kiss upon her lips, and what a hurry she is in to spit, and wipe them with the white sleeve of her smock, and how she bewails herself, and tears her fair hair as though it were to blame for the wrong


    5. “And she is not guilty—oh God!—Every moment she bemoans and bewails herself, and cries out that she does not admit any guilt, that she is the victim of circumstances—the victim of a wicked libertine


    6. The whole army bewails it and calls down curses upon him


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