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He designates the former as one above the hand, the latter as one above the foot. Four days the redman fasts or does penance; four days he mourns, for that is the time required by the soul to travel from the place where it has been liberated from the thralls of earthly life to the place of eternal felicity.
Frequent down this greenwood dale Mourns the warbling nightingale, Nestling 'mid the thickest screen Of the ivy's darksome green, Or where each empurpled shoot Drooping with its myriad fruit, Curl'd in many a mazy twine, Droops the never-trodden vine. ANSTICE.
When, from the seclusion of his cabinet, a politician takes a view of society, he is struck with the spectacle of inequality which presents itself. He mourns over the sufferings which are the lot of so many of our brethren, sufferings whose aspect is rendered yet more sorrowful by the contrast of luxury and wealth.
Well, that also thundered and deluged and guyzered out onto the floor accompanied by the drips and drizzles into the settin' room, Ury's flight with Philury, Karen's mourns, and Josiah's groans, for he had lost his pride and openly groaned and jawed at Jabez and sez to him: "You dum fool you! you don't know beans from a broom stick! I wouldn't trust you to make splinters to do up a dog's leg!"
The desire for life and liberty, the prevalence of charlatanism on the one side, and on the other the abandoning of religious studies in favor of secular studies, will have baleful consequences for the Jewish youth, even in Lithuania." This whole period of our author's life is characterized by similar regrets he mourns over days spent in barren struggles and over the follies of youth.
Gliding near the Lido where so many rings of Doges lie lost beneath the waves I heard the pleasant sound of female voices upon the water and then, with a sudden glory, rose a sad, wild hymn, like the musical wail of the forsaken sea: The spouseless Adriatic mourns her lord. The song ceased.
As he scanned the surrounding garden, the land baron's eye fell upon an indistinct figure stealing slowly across the sward in the partial darkness. This object was immediately followed by another and yet another. To the observer's surprise they wore the headgear of Indians. Suddenly the patroon heard the note of the whippoorwill, the nocturnal songster that mourns unseen.
That is why an Indian mother puts pretty things upon the grave of her still-born child, and that is why she never mourns over it. As our journey progressed those enemies of comfort and pleasure, the black flies, appeared, and at sunrise and sunset caused much annoyance, especially among the children.
'Are ye among that number? ye should be by your looks. 'We are! was the answer. 'Is it ye who have been wailing and weeping here under cover of the night? said Will. 'It is, replied the woman sternly; and pointing, as she spoke, towards her companion, 'she mourns a husband, and I a brother.
Where is the child that would willingly forget the most tender of parents, though to remember be but to lament? Who, even in the hour of agony, would forget the friend over whom he mourns?
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