Which preposition to use with weeping
Agatho and a few pettifoggers were weeping for grief, and for once in a way they meant it.
A year ago you were weeping over Paul's departure; and now, behold, you are going to join him, and lay in his arms the son he has never seen.
Why did you not speak, Sir, all this while?my Lady weeps with your Unkindness.
in my arms!" Father and son, locked together in closest embrace, mingled their sobs, while Auguste and his wife, looking on, wept in sympathy.
And he "wept at my tranquillity.
Then I would assuredly box your jaws, because I don't yearn to be a poor stricken dear and weep on anybody's bosom.
" I had been tried too hard, and was all but proving my bravery by weeping like a bairn. CHAPTER XIV.
And, whilst the lifted murmur met his ear, And o'er the distant billows the still eve Sailed slow, has thought of all his heart must leave To-morrow; of the friends he loved most dear; Of social scenes, from which he wept to part!
"The incessant weeping of my wife, and the piteous complaints of the pretty babes, who not knowing what to fear, wept for fashion, because they saw their mother weep, filled me with terror for them, though I did not for myself fear death; and all my thoughts were bent to contrive means for their safety.
The dreadful scene presented him the mother lifeless, pierced to the heart, on a chair, her daughter yet wildly standing over her with the fatal knife, and the old man, her father, weeping by her side, himself bleeding at the forehead from the effects of a severe blow he received from one of the forks she had been madly hurling about the room.
Thou art a babe weeping in a place of shadows, so will I go beside thee in the dark to soothe and comfort thee.
And Henrich buried his face in his hands and wept without restraint.
" She sat and wept beside his feet.
None of all the magic hosts, None remain but a few ghosts Of timorous heart, to linger on Weeping for lost Babylon.
"The moment that we emerged from the enchanted castle we knew ourselves and each other for what we were, and fell weeping into each other's arms.
Father Holt blessed him too, and then they took leave of my Lady Viscountess, who came weeping from her apartment.
The letter the ladies had found her weeping over was from Pendennyss, informing her of his want of success on that occasion.
So she ended and stood weeping as one that is hopeless and weary.
"So, taking everything into consideration, I gave up my plan to marry this girl of Timnath; and I was afterward very glad I did so, for she proved a tricky creature, and entered into a conspiracy to deceive her husband, actually weeping before him seven days in order to worm out of him the secret of his strength.
Therespect for the dead among the early Greeks was very great, and Miss Lambert quotes the complaint of Petala to Simmalion, in the Epistles of Alciphron, to show how special was the dedication of flowers to the dead:"I have a lover who is a mourner, not a lover; he sends me garlands and roses as if to deck a premature grave, and he says he weeps through the live-long night.
With no disturbing emotions, no cross conflicting comparisons, drink in the tranquillity of the place, till thou thyself become as fixed and motionless as the marble effigies that kneel and weep around thee.
" "Lad, it is the one thing we can do together, and after that?" A plaintive sound came to the ear of Anthony, and he looked down to see Sally Fortune weeping at the grave of Joan.
The trained nurse turns on the light, lifts the baby, hushes it, sings to it, rocks it, and stills its weeping by caresses and song.
Came the sound of muffled weeping from the crowd, while high above, in sky deepening to evening, a star twinkled.
"Upon my honor, and when a girl begins to weep about a man I don't need to say he is close to her heart.