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Word: wept (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...trees, though it was yet dusk in the open glen. Tue saw the truth of Yung's words; but in her case (as in that of many, I fear) the discovery of truth did not bring with it an exquisite joy. She sank upon the ground and wept...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR FIRST FAMILIES. | 12/9/1881 | See Source »

...grew rigid an instant; then, over-strained by the excitement, fell desolate on the earth. She wept...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR FIRST FAMILIES. | 10/28/1881 | See Source »

...Have I wept, ah, bitterly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXPECTATION. | 6/3/1881 | See Source »

...insufficiently clad. Then I explained. She laughed in the most astonishing way, and confessed that she had never yet been afflicted by the deadly disease which her husband had imputed to her. And then I knew that Alfred had been guilty of the basest prevarication. I almost wept over his fault; my confidence in human...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REMINISCENCES OF TENNYSON. | 3/11/1881 | See Source »

...must," the hero replied. "Then sit upon that step," said Sloth, "and wait." So Lighthead waited, and the noon past and evening came - but no one else. Then he, feeling the day was cold, got up and departed. That night he thought much of his home, and wept...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS. | 2/11/1881 | See Source »

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