321 Verbs to Use for the Word griefs

They were father and son, and when the latter, before any drawing took place, voluntarily surrendered himself to the executioner the former felt such great grief that he died also by his own hand.

Men have always borne personal grief more easily than women; observers remarked the fact.

"Oh, they express quite sufficiently the grief I feel on this occasion.

Shelley refers to the hyacinth in another passage (Prometheus Unbound, act 2, sc. 1) which seems to indicate that he regarded the antique hyacinth as being the same as the modern hyacinth, 'As the blue bells Of hyacinth tell Apollo's written grief.' 1. 8.

O, if I could, what grief should I forget!

Ah, hapless, hapless maiden, for in her deep despair She did not know what grief her face had caused that knight to bear; And though the Countess Palma strove with many a service kind To show her love, to soothe the pang that wrung the maiden's mind, Yet borne upon the tempest of the captive's bitter grief, She never lowered the sail to give her suffering heart relief.

Time hath never shown So sad a change of wayward fate; Nor sorrowing mortals ever known A grief so true, a loss so great.

Poor Merry was very tearful and disconsolate at the thought of leaving Dick, but she strove heroically to hide her grief when the cavalcade set out, the elder ladies driving, the young people mounted.

Thus Fian after Fian came to share Their bitter grief, in silence and despair.

"If it had been ten o'clock I would have been in time to save the life of my loverto prevent this great tragedy which brings grief to so many.

So to assuage the griefs that overthrow Thy father's heart.

What says the noble hymn: 'When gathering clouds around I view, And days are dark and friends are few, On him I lean, who, not in vain, Experienced every human pain: He sees my griefs, allays my fears, And counts and treasures up my tears.'

And still she beat her face, and o'er them hung, As in a tranceor to them wildly clung Day after day she thus indulged her grief, Night after night, disdaining all relief; At length worn outfrom earthly anguish riven, The mother's spirit joined her child in Heaven.

To her father she hastily fled for relief, And told him her pain and her smart; With kindly caresses he soothed her grief, Then smiling he took the weed's part.

His pallid countenance, and blood- stained garments, struck a chill to her heart; but she concealed her grief, and silenced the sobs and exclamations of the warm-hearted little Edith and her terrified brother; and then, having affectionately welcomed the almost fainting boy, she hurried away with the children to prepare for his reception in the comfortless log-hut.

Tonight he would give way, and suffer grief and desire and longing like a physical pain.

To Oriana, alone, could he tell his feelings, and pour out his griefs and anxieties; and Edith herself could not have listened to him with more attention and sympathy than was shown by the young Indian girl.

Then Christian gave three leaps for joy, and went on singing: Thus far did I come laden with my sin; Nor could aught ease the grief that I was in, Till I came hither; what a place is this!

Each of the children showed his grief in a special manner.

Yea since we are come forth from our sore troubles let us not fall into the desolation of crownlessness, neither nurse our griefs; but having ease from our ills that are past mending, we will set some pleasant thing before the people, though it follow hard on pain: inasmuch as some god hath put away from us the Tantalos-stone that hung above our heads, a curse intolerable to Hellas.

Nature thus grants men relief; Tyranny gives only grief.

The lines in Coleridge's DejectionI was not then acquainted with themexactly describe my case: "A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear, A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief, Which finds no natural outlet or relief In word, or sigh, or tear.

Lady Huntingdon at this period of her life was called upon to endure some very heavy domestic griefs.

In this period, time had so alleviated my grief, that I began to take pleasure in the cultivation of science, which constituted my chief employment.

Soon afterward he broke out into open opposition to his father, who had complained of this undutiful and impetuous son to the states of the provinces, venting his grief in lamentations instead of punishing his people's wrongs.

321 Verbs to Use for the Word  griefs