Word: lamentation
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...give up his room and has no friends present, Class Day has its dark side; he is lonely in spite of the gayety around him. Such a melancholy undergraduate linked his arm in mine as we crossed the Yard after the lights were out, and poured forth the following lament...
...course individual opinion will not much influence the sentiment of the whole class in one direction or another, but there are some men, of whom I profess to be one, who would seriously lament to see this day done away with, fittingly commemorating as it does, in both jollity and seriousness, the successful termination of a laborious course of four years, in some cases five or more...
...have owned the old mat will lament its loss, not because of itself, - for, what with its rags and its dust, it had become something of an old fossil, - but because, like other old fossils, it called up memories of a past both near and remote. What trains of thought will be roused by the news of its disappearance! Old men will recall the days, far away, when they crossed it, and will wonder at its endurance. Recent graduates will remember its signs of undoubted antiquity, and will laugh when they think of the disasters that it has caused passers...
...Atkinson, who has also translated Firdansi's "Shah-Nameh," the history of the ancient kings of Persia. Or why did Mr. Emerson not speak of the "Adventures and Improvisations of Kourroglou," the bandit minstrel of North Persia, whose heroes remind one of those of "Cervantes and Ariosto"? Kourroglou's lament at the death of his steed Ayrat is one of the most beautiful and pathetic elegies in Oriental literature. Why did not Mr. Emerson expatiate on those three bright stars of the literary firmament, and why did he pass over with so little notice Omar Khayyam? Simply because, instead...
...sinners, but at length, hardened by their vicious habits into a callous disregard of the feelings of their neighbors, the Sabbath-breakers began to sing and play snatches from college songs and the Opera Bouffe on Sunday. This final straw broke the Record camel's back, and the lament of the injured animal culminates in a prayer that the sinners may be induced to "rest their lungs on the Lord...