Adjective : a sorrowful song. ,a sorrowful event. From Dictionary.com.
And from the bed arose a wail more terrible in its utter, eternal sorrowfulness than had ever fallen upon the ears of those present. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
We shall not rightly estimate the sorrowfulness of. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah] Reference
It seems to me grand and mighty in its sorrowfulness. From Wordnik.com. [Confessions of a Young Man] Reference
There was no sense of gloom or sorrowfulness in her company. From Wordnik.com. [Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance] Reference
When she looked around it was with a sorrowfulness as of farewell. From Wordnik.com. [Nocturne] Reference
And to add to his sorrowfulness and bitterness he had something of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Tree of Heaven] Reference
She nodded; her simple, pathetic sorrowfulness showing itself even in the poor little gesture. From Wordnik.com. [Theo A Sprightly Love Story] Reference
As she descended into the valley and the open plain beyond her sorrowfulness fell away from her. From Wordnik.com. [Cobwebs and Cables] Reference
So I begin to think there is even more sorrowfulness and unrest in the world than I thought there was. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss] Reference
What leads to the permanent sorrowfulness of burglars is that their principles are contrary to burglary. From Wordnik.com. [How to Live on 24 Hours a Day] Reference
The flute-like sorrowfulness of the organ thrills through my blood; my nerves vibrate in responsive echo. From Wordnik.com. [Hunger] Reference
Apostles to His Father, explains the cause of His sorrowfulness, and the prayer that the cup may pass away. From Wordnik.com. [NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus] Reference
"Poor mother!" repeated Dora in a voice that was only more soft and caressing because of its sorrowfulness. From Wordnik.com. [A Houseful of Girls] Reference
She could have answered, 'Not if you wish me not to'; while smiling at the quaint sorrowfulness of his tone. From Wordnik.com. [Beauchamp's Career — Complete] Reference
Well, I suppose so, 'said Mr. Mohun, with a certain sorrowfulness of tone, into which his little daughter entered. From Wordnik.com. [The Two Sides of the Shield] Reference
He tracked her sorrowfulness to the want of money; and another of his terrific vague struggles with the money-demon set in. From Wordnik.com. [Rhoda Fleming — Complete] Reference
While visiting those at Marseilles, he was much struck by the broken-down looks and exceeding sorrowfulness of one of the convicts. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Golden Deeds] Reference
The mistake I had made in my blindness, the sorrowfulness of it, the pain I must give, the mischief it might do, I saw it all at once. From Wordnik.com. [Daisy in the Field] Reference
We perceive not fully either of our wretchedness or our dangers, or the fury of enemies, until after events of extraordinary sorrowfulness. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Great Sermons, Volume 01 Basil to Calvin] Reference
Eric was touched to the heart's core, and in one rapid lightning-like glance, his memory revealed to him the faultful past, in all its sorrowfulness. From Wordnik.com. [Eric, or Little by Little] Reference
Luke, the sorrowfulness unto death, and the protest against sleep, followed by the command, Sleep on, in Matthew and Mark, and all difficulty disappears. From Wordnik.com. [NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus] Reference
He sat eyeing the firelight till she returned, and then taking the long golden lock in his handy he squeezed it, full of bitter memories and sorrowfulness. From Wordnik.com. [Sandra Belloni — Complete] Reference
I think she mistook a certain gravity, like that of the Merchant of Venice, for sorrowfulness; though doubtless the peculiarity of his loss, as well as the loss itself, did sometimes make him sad. From Wordnik.com. [What's Mine's Mine — Complete] Reference
The next section is one long wail over the contradictions, the mysteries, the dark end, the infinite sorrowfulness of all existence, and the arcanum of grief which, Luther said, underlies all life. From Wordnik.com. [The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi] Reference
"Pray, now," with a sort of sociable sorrowfulness, slowly sliding along the rail, "Pray, now, my young friend, what volume have you there?. From Wordnik.com. [The Confidence-Man] Reference
All sorrowfulness must proceed from him. From Wordnik.com. [Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920] Reference
That it may not smother in this sorrowfulness!. From Wordnik.com. [Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none] Reference
But sometimes your sorrowfulness seems shallow. From Wordnik.com. [Crosswalk.com - Home] Reference
Like sorrowfulness of my bottom less pit of you. From Wordnik.com. [[Help] Most Recent Posts] Reference
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