Word: weep
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...witch doctors always come out ahead. After the djinn-soaked customer is isolated for a week, the witch doctor bursts into his room with a band composed of drum-beaters and female vocalists whose job is to shriek. The zaar goes on all day, as the participants weep, beat their breasts, and roll on the earth...
...around the room in dreamy images of Steamboat Gothic. Now he conjures moods of mirth, now of sorrow. He rolls his bright blue eyes heavenward. In funereal tones, he paraphrases the Bible (" 'Lord, they would stone me . . .'") and church bells peal. "Motherhood." he whispers, and grown men weep. "The Flag!" he bugles, and everybody salutes...
Near a couch, that girl won't weep...
...nothing is the Anglo-Saxon "snow" derived from Sanskrit sneha, 'moisture,' or the Gaelic sneachd. Of late, unwonted newtish wetness pervades the simmering gutters, and as if for efts lies puddling on the pavements. The icicles, sad eyelids of the white-haired residences, weep down the ivy cheeks and in despair cascade in shattering barrages on the innocents below. Minutious capillary streets transmit a filthy umbrous melt to unreceptive veins, unopened sewers, and all along the byways mounds of pablumgrey constrict the traveler from...
...courage to meet the needs of its people by using its own taxing power, so it prefers the escape of letting the national government do the taxing and then return the money to the state, then the leadership of this state puts itself in an exceedingly poor position to weep over the growth of federal power...