Though I was pretty large and stout of my age, yet these burthens were very grievous to me, being only about six years and a half old.

He was too powerful a boy to be beaten, but he underwent every mode of that negative punishment, which is more grievous than many stripes.

Grievous for all who love thee, but for me

To be alone is the fate of all great mindsa fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.

And though we hope for a better life, eternal happiness, after these painful and miserable days, yet we cannot compose ourselves willingly to die; the remembrance of it is most grievous unto us, especially to such who are fortunate and rich: they start at the name of death, as a horse at a rotten post.

No hour can be unseasonable, no business difficult, nor pain grievous in condition of his ease: and what either he doth or suffers, he neither cares nor desires to have known, lest he should seem to look for thanks.

WIDOW IS MORE GRIEVOUS THAN THAT OF A WIDOWER.