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Sorrowful

adjective

Experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss. "A sorrowful tale of death and despair" , "Sorrowful news" , "Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful"

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"Sorrowful" Quotes from Famous Books

... your trunk for you, Becky dear, and attend to all our room things," said Emma Jane, who had come towards the group and heard the sorrowful news from the ...

— Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm • Kate Douglas Wiggin

... significant reference: 'At 6.45 A.M. came all the friends once more, at 7.30 cast off, and the vessel slowly fell out into the middle of the river. Oh! the parting!' But at 8.30 on the same morning the sorrowful father had started on his solitary return journey to Peking. Bereft now of both wife, and boys he was to pass the rest of his career in China, except for the brief intervals of residence in Peking, ...

— James Gilmour of Mongolia - His diaries, letters, and reports • James Gilmour

... Sunday, we went to Pere la Chaise and saw great crowds of Communists hanging wreaths on the wall where hundreds of their friends were shot down in 1871—a sorrowful sight. ...

— The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) • Ida Husted Harper

... and sorrowful; but Hester was unmoved. The bitter feeling which had filled her heart for three weeks was now bursting forth ...

— Hester's Counterpart - A Story of Boarding School Life • Jean K. Baird

... great pain, in consequence, among other things, of the oft-repeated threat of his wife to separate from him; and, to give vent to his sorrowful reflections, he went up garret as quietly as he could, and folding himself up in several heavy "comforters," or padded quilts, he forgot his grief by falling into a sound sleep. Meantime Pete and Bill Kurney, the two Irish converts of Parson Waistcoat, seeing ...

— The Cross and the Shamrock • Hugh Quigley

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