Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...even as the soul in the human being, for it awakens emotions of joy and grief, and more than this, it purifies the thoughts of the people. I was interested in the ministrations of this temple, so I collected cash for the bell. Ni-or-ai says: "All my sorrow is expressed by the voice of the bell. When the wicked ones in hell hear its sound they forget for a time their torments, and, confessing their sins, pray to be received into Heaven. It also causes the devils to flee." This caused me to have Ko-ga-wa make...
...Advertiser, speaking of the recently published prize essays of the Civil Service Reform Association of Boston, says of the late Mr. W. A. Smith of the class of '80: "That of Mr. Walter Allen Smith, which took the first prize, is a paper which will intensify greatly the sorrow and regret at his early death; for a young man who could prepare so broad, so thoughtful and so ripe an essay, expressed in such an easy and happy style, was capable of great things, and his death is a loss to his State and his country...
Italy is in mourning over the death of Garabaldi, and a great popular demonstration of sorrow is to be arranged...
Great tears of bitter sorrow...
Bacchus soon shall lull your sorrow...