The sorrowful spirit finds relaxation in solitude.    From LearnThat.org.  [Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931).]

sorrowful widows.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

The king gazed in sorrowful amazement at the change.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Apple Tree] Reference

And for a little while they halted in sorrowful silence at the place where the windmill had once stood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Animal Farm] Reference

Were these miserable beings, who, worn and wretched, passed in sorrowful procession, the sole remnants of the race of man, which, like.    From Wordnik.com.  [III.7] Reference

His words were real pretty, kind of sorrowful you know.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marcia Schuyler] Reference

It was so she stood in a kind of sorrowful exaltation waiting for.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marcia Schuyler] Reference

The man who was "sorrowful" when the two portions were set before him for his choice, "went away.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Parables of Our Lord] Reference

To the Queen in sorrowful mood.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Laidley Worm] Reference

He took one look at that picture, and then he says, kind of sorrowful: 'Is this the only place in town where they serve liquor?'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Partners of Chance] Reference

For no sleep could he get in his sorrowful plight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference

I noticed the sorrowful look that clouded her face.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE RICH RIVER] Reference

And maybe hoist a sorrowful glass or two, and shed a tear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bull? Bear? Lemming!] Reference

"Phil Nesmith: Flow" is equal parts sublime and sorrowful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Art review: ‘Phil Nesmith: Flow' at Irvine Contemporary & Renate Aller at Adamson Gallery] Reference

It's another sorrowful fact of life in south-central Los Angeles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chance Of A Lifetime] Reference

"I can't give you that," said the king, and went away, sorrowful.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell] Reference

There are passion plays, sorrowful processions and outpourings of grief.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call: Prospects of War] Reference

There seems something empty and sorrowful about this time for these kids.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rickie Lee Jones' Divine Departure] Reference

You've always had a sorrowful record on issues of race and criminal justice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Randy Credico: Congratulations Chuck! You've Knocked Me Off the Democratic Primary Ballot] Reference

Nicolay and Hay have published a note which impressively tells the sorrowful story.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference

When Billy Beg heard all this, he was very sorrowful, and the bull noticed his looks.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell] Reference

He speaks in sorrowful tones about the "economic disaster that is the American newspaper.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Google and the Search for the Future] Reference

And saying these words, young Monsieur Desvarennes allowed a sorrowful moan to escape him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

The sorrowful-sounding violins stop and lights go on, shining out on us, for a few moments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tonya Plank: Company B, Citizen: Dances For Our Troubled Times] Reference

Democrats, trying to sound more sorrowful than angry (let alone delighted) demanded answers.    From Wordnik.com.  ['I Sniff Some Politics'] Reference

If this book were a train, they'd be making up sorrowful ballads about it for years to come.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Down-Under Car Dealers From Hell] Reference

For us immigrants, becoming American was a choice, marked by sorrowful partings and tough new beginnings.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Immigrant's Faith] Reference

She brings her thumb to teeth, gnaws where there's nothing left to gnaw, sorrowful nails bitten down to nothing.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Knobby Thing] Reference

He was sparing us months of canine lamentation, a woeful hunger strike, endless midnight howls and sorrowful whimpering.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Grimes's "The Leash": Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature] Reference

The rewards are plentiful: glorious music and a sorrowful, moving drama of two men who wielded art as a weapon against fate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transatlantic Travelers] Reference

Eastwood tells his haunting, sorrowful saga with such a sure, steady hand, only a very hardened cynic could fail to be moved.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Horror Of It All] Reference

Michelle Kwan's departure from Torino marked a sorrowful end to her Olympic dream and a huge disappointment for her legion fans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scoring Without Scandal?] Reference

Rina and older sister Yosefa inherit the sorrowful eyes of their much-loved father and the pragmatic nature of their spiky mother.    From Wordnik.com.  [First novels] Reference

It would be a solemn event, certainly, and there would be a stoic, sorrowful moment when the man would say, “She was a good dog.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dog] Reference

Either way, it's unprecedented, a sorrowful and savagely beautiful elegy that can stand in the company of the greatest antiwar movies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Holiday Movie Guide] Reference

As she gestured to the beige princess phone mounted on the wall she gave me a sorrowful look that reduced me, almost, to ten years old.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jake are Married (another novel castaway)] Reference

For an article series that is to highlight this century I find it sad that you turn your eye solely to the sorrowful mistakes of humanity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lessons Of War] Reference