| 单词 | wailful |
| 例句 | She begg'd so long, so wailful, that less they could not do Than force the coffin open, and give the corpse to view. The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition 2012-01-04T03:00:37.750Z I am not going to beat the big drum of sentiment and make a wailful noise. Fr?ulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther 2011-02-17T03:00:18.413Z The prayers and the wailful chanting passed over his head like waves, his heart was straitened, red sparks whirled before his eyes. Yiddish Tales But although in his attention to the wailful melody of the words he scarcely noticed the meaning, something of the old passion and fervor had gone out of his voice. Dreamers of the Ghetto From behind his wailful voice the gentle knocking was heard running on. Little Novels of Italy One explained to him: "It is a wailful woman seeking her lost child; she has become this forlorn bird". Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Then over their tops passed a wailful gust of wind, through which we thought came the fall of receding footsteps. Wilfrid Cumbermede Proteus says: "You must lay lime to tangle her desires By wailful sonnets, whose composéd rhymes Should be full fraught with serviceable vows." The Man Shakespeare Prodigality, I not mislike your wailful disposition; And therefore for you to the prince there shall be made petition, That though your punishment be not fully remitted, Yet in some part it may be qualified. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 We were hurried along at a cruel pace, so that I had often to run to avoid the dragging at my wrists, and behind us bumped the cart full of wailful women. Salute to Adventurers The packed small room, the caged-monkey lingo, the wailful child, and the past and apprehended debate upon the burning of flesh, composed an intolerable torture. The Amazing Marriage — Complete Clouds were gathering overhead, and a wailful wind made one moaning sweep through the trees behind us in the hollow. Wilfrid Cumbermede The packed small room, the caged- monkey lingo, the wailful child, and the past and apprehended debate upon the burning of flesh, composed an intolerable torture. The Amazing Marriage — Volume 4 Hector, here do we contend with the Danaans, at the limit of the wailful war, but, lo, the other Trojans are driven in flight confusedly, men and horses. The Iliad All at once a wailful sound arose in his head. Robert Falconer Her very soul seemed brooding over the dead upon Flodden field, as she sang this most wailful of melodies—this embodiment of a nation's grief. David Elginbrod The glass did not say so, but the shrunken heart within him did, and wailfully too. The Egoist The wailful sweetness of the violin Floats down the hush-ed waters of the wind, The heart-strings of the throbbing harp begin To long in aching music. New Poems She hears his wailful prayer, When now to the Invisible he raves To rend him from her, now of his mother craves Her calm, her care. Poems — Volume 2 How low when angels fall their black descent, Our primal thunder tells: known is the pain Of music, that nigh throning wisdom went, And one false note cast wailful to the insane. Poems — Volume 1 |
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