Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...wish to express to you our sorrow at the death of your son and our classmate, Henry. Those of us who knew him appreciate only too well the great loss you have sustained. He was loved and respected by all who came into contact with him. Be assured of our deepest sympathy in your great affliction...
...indifference. The person who buttonholes his acquaintances and inquires about their hopes of future life is shunned like the Ancient Mariner. Among clergymen the subject is seldom referred to except from the pulpit, and even the daily press is silent. Only on occasions of sickness and sorrow, and at the approach of death, does the though arise, "Of what am I, and where do I go?" It is often the case that the older one grows the less fixed becomes the interest in immortality...
...steadily moving--the heir of all the ages. During the past forty years biological research has caused a revolution in human thought--has even changed the mind of man. Those who have lived through the bitter changed of fierce extremes in the war between science and religion compare with sorrow the times gone by, when faith was diversified by doubt, with the present, when doubt is diversified by faith...
Harper's--"Is English Becoming Corrupt?" by T. R. Lounsbury h.'93; "When Upweekis Goes Hunting," by W. J. Long '92; "The University of St. Petersburg," by C. F. Thwing '76; "Sorrow, my Sorrow" and "Editor's Easy Chair," by W. D. Howells...
Century--"The Wind of Sorrow" and "Dulois Memoria," by Henry van Dyke h.'94; "The Reggie Livingstones' Country Life," by David Gray '92; "The Summer of St. Martin," by S. Weir Mitchell...