Word: weep
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...Mosquitoes had gone. Berlin was silent. On their day of jubilee, Germans wondered, as Herr Goebbels had wondered ten years before, whether to laugh or weep...
...have packed up and left us early, Inchball, taking everything, though you will go on with nothing. We can not decry your departing this time, dear Inch; we only put on the yew and weep. Yes, you have left us too soon, for the scarred lawns are still bleached. Patterns or drab and blue, grimy white and withered ivy, golden steeple against the sky now mark your going, but green and skirted yard will welcome you when you return to our sanctum, Inchball...
...opening bars of the Star-Spangled Banner) they depend heavily on consonances. An upsetting virus in music is dissonance, a combination of sounds full of sonorous tension which may produce anything from vague impatience to acute aural distress. When composers wish to disturb their listeners, make them weep, sigh or foam at the mouth, they do it with dissonances...
...many a Democrat, brooding about the November defeat, looking with jaundiced eye at the prospects for 1944, it was enough to make him weep...
...battles, bearbaitings. He hounded the rich who docked their horses' tails. He halted cattle vans and revolted the public with the spectacle of diseased sheep and steers on their way to the butcher shop. His daily good deed done, Henry Bergh ("unmanly as it may seem") would weep copiously in the privacy of his room...