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Sentences starting with sorrow

Sorrow and anxiety were suddenly forgotten, thought and calculation were far from her; for some minutes she felt nothing but that she, too, was laughing heartily, irrepressibly, like the young healthful human creature that she was. [10]
Sorrow had brought them very near together; and though she had loved him before, now he had become her reliance and her refuge. [9]
Sorrow had quenched the thrills forever. [9]
Sorrow and misfortune overtake the legislature that still from year to year permits Tahoe to retain its unmusical cognomen! [5]
Sorrow and pain never felt before filled her heart after making this resolution. [10]
Sorrow was to me the end and intent of life. [10]
Sorrow had set its brand upon this protesting face in deep, violet marks under the eyes, in lines which no human power could erase: sorrow had flecked with white the gold of the hair, had proclaimed her a woman with a history. [9]
Sorrow for wrong-doing is but one step towards reform, and the very easiest step. [5]
Sorrow was dead indeed in her, but peace and perfect happiness were born; imaged in her tranquil beauty and profound repose. [12]
Sorrow was in his voice, and he bore messages from the twenty great chiefs who stood beyond. [9]

Sentences ending with sorrow

The good man yearned to comfort her, and yet he felt his comfort too humble to be noticed by such sorrow. [9]
On it was written a sorrow for me greater than my own sorrow. [9]
He crept about with heedful care and never a word, prying as he went, and presently I could see that he shook his big head as though in doubt, nay, or in sorrow. [10]
Here, thought he, were two human souls all in all to each other, and hence this overwhelming sorrow. [10]
Even as he was speaking a thrill of admiration ran through Cynthia, piercing her sorrow. [9]
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow. [6]
I saw she was in sorrow. [11]
And when she was in her work-parlor it was not profitable, but just the other way--as she found out to her sorrow. [5]
The taxes for wars were wrung out of the sons of labour and sorrow. [11]
It is great, very great happiness, and mingled therefor with bitter sorrow. [10]

Short sentences using sorrow

The sorrow of that smile! [9]
She was inviting sorrow. [11]
I am in sorrow. [11]
Now I sorrow for unbelief. [11]
Had he not enough sorrow? [11]
And oh, sorrow! [5]
But sorrow came. [11]
Never ending sorrow! [10]
Sorrow? [9]
Sorrow enough! [9]

Sentences containing sorrow two or more times

For the first time in her life she knew sorrow, and it made it worse that that sorrow was indefinable. [9]
In Moscow Princess Mary had no one to talk to, no one to whom to confide her sorrow, and much sorrow fell to her lot just then. [2]
And the sorrow in those eyes, the sorrow of a heavy cross borne meekly,--how heavy none will ever know. [9]
As I strode homeward, my own sorrow subdued by the greater sorrow I had looked upon, the craving I had had to be alone was gone, and I would have locked arms with a turnspit. [9]
Thus sorrow was her first companion in her new abode--a sorrow to which the comfort of her pretty, airy rooms added keenness. [10]
As her experience deepened under the influence of a sorrow which still was joy, and a joy that still was sorrow, her vision became acute and piercing. [11]
She had met a force that she could not conquer, she had looked upon a sorrow that she could not fathom, albeit she had known sorrow. [9]

More example sentences with the word sorrow in them

She was still young, but her slightly pockmarked countenance showed the wear and tear of sorrow of some kind. [11]
But your lover--though you should weep for sorrow till your eyes are red--" "I would denounce the traitor, if he made himself worthy of death," Ledscha passionately interrupted, with flashing eyes. [10]
To your sorrow you are aware that frequently, much too frequently, when a book gets to be five or ten years old its annual sale shrinks to two or three hundred copies, and after an added ten or twenty years ceases to sell. [5]
I have not written a single line, and have not once thought of business, or care or human toil or trouble or sorrow or weariness. [5]
Then the money would enable her to weave a joy into the sorrow that awaited him. [10]
It was another world, where sin and sorrow never came; a tranquil place of rest, where nothing evil entered. [12]
In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all, and to the young it comes with bittered agony because it takes them unawares. [7]
Thus woe on woe, and at the same time the painfully paralyzing feeling of the hostility of Fate had been evoked from its surges and, instead of happiness, they had brought sorrow and suffering. [10]
My heart was withered and shrunk with exile and sorrow, but I feel that it expands--it beats more joyfully now that there is a hope of vengeance. [10]
To-day, which began with such cruel sorrow, will yet have a tolerable end. [10]
Death had come with sorrow and unmerited shame. [11]
Book-agents visit it with other commercial travelers, but the flood of knowledge, which is said to be the beginning of sorrow, is hardly turned in that direction yet. [4]
For these reasons, with much sorrow and regret, I venture to suggest to the vestry that Mr. Hodder resign as our rector. [9]
He had never wished evil to any one who did not injure him, but even if he could have averted this sore sorrow from the Emperor Rudolph he would not have stirred a finger. [10]
We are so willing to be lenient to the unfortunate, for a Greater than we has visited them with sorrow such as man could not inflict. [10]
Fear and sorrow will now be changed into happiness and power, and all the glories of the world. [10]
The old man's whispered exhortation to his young friend to spare the imperial master, to whom he was so deeply indebted, a fresh sorrow, restored to the infuriated young knight his power of self-control. [10]
The night, on which sorrow and sickness had entered the Hoogstraten mansion, was followed by a beautiful morning. [10]
Here the tears which so easily rose to his eyes began to flow, and, seeing that Melissa's tender heart was moved by his sorrow, he gained confidence, and reproached his daughter for having kindled Caracalla's love, by her radiant eyes--so like her mother's! [10]
It was this which filled her eyes with tears, and sincere sorrow trembled in her voice as she replied: "Thou hast required the better half of my life at my hand; but thou hast but to command, and I to obey. [10]
By the pond where all the people drank, performed their ablutions, bathed their bodies and rinsed their mouths, sat the sheikh-el-beled, the village chief, taking counsel in sorrow with the barber, the holy man, and others. [11]
The time comes when we have learned to understand the music of sorrow, the beauty of resigned suffering, the holy light that plays over the pillow of those who die before their time, in humble hope and trust. [6]
For, notwithstanding there were certain hours in those days which brought me sweet love-making, and others of sheer mirth and vanity, yet is the spirit of man so tempered that, when great sorrow follows hard on the greatest joy it sufficeth to darken it wholly. [10]
Horror, sorrow, remorse, were all there. [11]
To-morrow morning, dear, we'll turn our faces from this scene of sorrow, and be as free and happy as the birds. [12]
Though long the weary way we tread, And sorrow crown each lingering year, No path we shun, no darkness dread, Our hearts still whispering, Thou art near! [6]
And through the watches of that sleepless night Jane Withersteen, in fear and sorrow and doubt, came finally to believe that if she must throw herself into Lassiter's arms to make him abide by "Thou shalt not kill! [13]
And if so, was it sin or sorrow, or both? [9]
What that sorrow was he could not guess. [9]
And the feeling was as palpable as the seeing; as in the early spring the new life which is being born in the year, produces a febrile kind of sorrow in the mind. [11]
She felt a warm moisture on her cheeks, and realized that she was crying with the first real sorrow of her life. [9]
Susan and Jane, waiting to give her comfort when she was recovered a little from this unknown but overwhelming affliction, were fain to stand mute when they saw her to pay a silent deference to one whom sorrow had lifted far above them and transfigured. [9]
It was a wail of sorrow, a march to the grave, a benediction, a soft sound of farewell, floating through the room and dying away into the mid-day sun. [11]
Pictures--it was all vivid pictures, that awful visualisation of sorrow which, if it continues, breaks the heart or wrests the mind from its sanity. [11]
And then He visited me with sorrow, and, if I still mourn, I have peace, too, and a busy life. [11]
Were there not vast fields of human effort, effort such as his, where he could ease the sorrow of living by the joy of a divine altruism? [11]
The doctor was used to scenes of sorrow, but the sight of this man's suffering unnerved him, and he turned from it. [9]
What is the use of a house filled with fine furniture when the heart is so full of sorrow? [10]
There was with us a profound sense of loss and sorrow, due partly to the growing knowledge, not pleasing to our vanity, that Margaret could get on very well without us, that we were not necessary to her life. [4]
A bright hope unfulfilled is harder to bear than an unexpected sorrow. [10]
There was some unfathomable fount in his nature which was even beyond any occurrence of his past; some radical, constitutional sorrow, coupled with a very strong, practical, and even vigorous nature. [11]
Luke Claridge had understood neither, not his wife when she had said: "Thee should let the Lord do His own work, Luke," nor his dying daughter Mercy, whose last words had been: "With love and sorrow I have sowed; he shall reap rejoicing--my babe. [11]
Every day or two, during this time of sorrow, Tom watched his opportunity and went to the little grated jail-window and smuggled such small comforts through to the "murderer" as he could get hold of. [5]
Earlier still--more than two years after Wolf's departure--tidings closely associated with the sorrow inflicted through her John had saddened her. [10]
That of the twins--they are ten years old--will soon be over--and now, after enjoying pleasures not one of which was bestowed on me, they must endure the same sorrow. [10]
For every happiness turned out in the one department the other stands ready to modify it with a sorrow or a pain--maybe a dozen. [5]
Old Herr Vorchtel's treatment of the man who had inflicted so deep a sorrow upon him touched her inmost soul. [10]
Her heart is torn between sorrow for her lost relations, and joy at being united again to her love. [10]
And when I took you off to the schooner, he gave me an hundred directions how to care for you, and then his sorrow bowled him all in a heap. [9]
And I remembered, too, the wild, neglected lad who had been to me as a brother, warm-hearted and generous, who had shared what he had with a foundling, who had wept with me in my first great sorrow. [9]
You have sorrow too young--too young. [11]
Take my horses to-night, leave here, and come back no more; and so none of us shall feel sorrow in thinking of the time when Valmond came to Pontiac. [11]
It grieves me to the heart to see it in its little storms of sorrow and passion. [5]
It cuts me to the heart to inflict such great sorrow upon one so loyal, good, and dear, who values me so much more than I deserve. [10]
It earned sorrow to the breast of every apostle of learning there, for none could deny that this was a formidable criticism. [5]
They went out to sup together in the German style; and gradually, over his beer, Tiefel forgot his sorrow. [9]
What he had to speak of was another sorrow, yet a healing one. [9]
It was easy to see in the man himself that some deep sorrow or heavy sin gnawed at his heart, and nevertheless he was one of the stateliest old gentlemen I have met in a long life. [10]
For me, and to save me from punishment and my father from sorrow, he owned a sin that he never committed. [10]
It really appears to me that you yourself ought to rejoice, and not sorrow, at this indubitable evidence of your undying affection for her. [7]
It was enough to leave dumb things behind, and objects that were insensible both to her love and sorrow. [12]
She came near to him, but there was no encouragement to her to play that part which is a woman's deepest right and joy and pain in one--to comfort her man in trouble, sorrow, or evil. [11]
It was mentioned to her that he would like to call and see how she was, and she consented,--not with much apparent interest, for she had reasons of her own for not feeling any very deep conviction of his sympathy for persons in sorrow. [6]
The laugh seemed to echo and echo through the amphitheatre, and then from the frozen seats, the hillocks of ice and snow, there was a long, low sound, as of sorrow, and a voice came after: "Sleep--sleep! [11]
She stole away to bed as quickly as she could, and when she was alone, gave free vent to the sorrow with which her breast was overcharged. [12]
He knew him to be honest, kind, charitable, self-denying, wherever any sorrow was to be alleviated, always reverential, with a cheerful trust in the great Father of all mankind. [6]
What was apparent to another was that he was broken by the sorrow that had fallen upon him, and it was this that Beaton respected and pitied in his impulse to be frank and kind in his answer. [8]
In sorrow, in times of trouble, then, fool, be a fool! [10]
At the same time, methought that for certain some new and terrible sorrow hung over us nay, never so clearly as then, after Abenberger's violent attack, had I perceived how much alone and without protection I stood in the world. [10]
Cambyses had no time to think of his sorrow, for Phanes had always some new idea or other, and entertained us all, as well as the king, marvellously. [10]
For the first time in her life she was face to face with moral problems--the beginning of sorrow, of knowledge, and of life. [11]
As I was thrust along out of the hall by the ebb of the crowd still other expressions of this esteem came to me in fragments, expressions of sorrow and dismay, of a loyalty I had not imagined. [9]
When, in saying this, her hoarse voice failed and tears of pain and sorrow filled her eyes, emotion overpowered him also and, after he had again urged her to submit to the will of their imperial master, he tore himself away with a last farewell. [10]
To withhold from this woman something which would give her fresh happiness and relieve her of sorrow might have afforded her a certain satisfaction. [10]
I shall always think of your grandfather with reverence and with sorrow. [9]
Cynthia saw these things, and more, for those who sit at the feet of sorrow soon learn the world's ways. [9]
She grew suddenly thin and a little worn, and her big eyes had that look of yearning which only comes to those whose sorrow is for another. [11]
But presently, after they had gone back into the library and were seated side by side before the coals, they spoke again of serious things, marvelling once more at a happiness which could be tinged and yet unmarred by vicarious sorrow. [9]
The reporters said there were tears of sorrow in my eyes. [5]
I know that there is sorrow on him. [11]
Why was it then, as I gazed upon his fine features in death, that I experienced no intensity of sorrow? [9]
June came, and then there was a sudden sorrow at the Bridge House. [11]
Clarence looked, and then he turned away toward the door to the stairway, as one who walks blindly, in a sorrow. [9]
She thought that their sorrow had tended to refine the others. [8]
Yet so runs the world,--strife at one man's home, and peace and contentment at his neighbor's; sorrow here, and rejoicing not a league away. [9]
At such times the water comes out of the places in her face that she looks out of, and she pats the fish on the back and makes soft sounds with her mouth to soothe it, and betrays sorrow and solicitude in a hundred ways. [5]
They spoke of the war, and like everyone else unconsciously exaggerated their sorrow about it; they spoke of their last meeting--Nicholas trying to change the subject--they talked of the governor's kind wife, of Nicholas' relations, and of Princess Mary's. [2]
I sorrow for the vagabond student of the Latin Quarter now, even more than formerly I envied him. [5]
So that if the traveler is honest, and examines his own soul faithfully, he will not know what state of mind to cherish as he passes through this region of sorrow. [4]
Her eyes had the strange look of the cheerfulness that is intimately acquainted with sorrow. [9]
Kilquhanity himself, with the sorrow of death upon him, though he knew it not, had listened to the brawl, his chickens come home to roost at last. [11]
Freddy Tarlton finished the sentence for him: "For an inner sorrow is a consuming fire. [11]
For three months the private dinner parties (we go to no public ones) have been Lodges of Sorrow, and just a little depressing sometimes; but now they are smiley and animated again. [5]
Much knowledge increases the possibility of enjoyment, but also the possibility of sorrow. [4]
When Cynthia turned, the points of color still high in her cheeks and the light still ablaze in her eyes, she surprised Jethro gazing at her from the porch, and some sorrow she felt rather than beheld stopped the confession on her lips. [9]
He had loved the people, and they him, and the pang of homesickness he now experienced was the intensest sorrow he had known since he had been among them. [9]
Each saw that the other had been in long conflict with some trial; for their voices were low and tender, as patiently borne sorrow and humbly uttered prayers make every human voice. [6]
Had she been the man and he the woman, she could never have written so smoothly of "fate," and "profession," nor told of this separation with so complaisant a sorrow. [11]
It was not the lightest part of her sorrow to know that this was done for her. [12]
Then he fell--in the gutter; and there was general sorrow and lamentation. [5]

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