That night, when all was still, White Fang remembered his mother and sorrowed for her.
He sorrowed too loudly and woke up Grey Beaver, who beat him.
He was the only son of his mother, and she sorrowed over him, and that was the end of it.
We heard all this, and sorrowed, and wondered how it was done.
Miss Armytage saw and understood, and sorrowed for Sir Terence.
Now it was the face of a man of thirty, a man who had lived and sinned and sorrowed.
The pity they gave them cost no emotion: if they sorrowed, it was with a grief that had no pang.
How Luttrell sorrowed for the loss of his wife was not known.
They cut off their blonde locks, and sorrowed like those without a hope.
Thus he sorrowed till it was day, and he heard the birds sing.
Old English sorg "grief, regret, trouble, care, pain, anxiety," from Proto-Germanic *sorg- (cf. Old Saxon sorga, Old Norse sorg, Middle Dutch sorghe, Dutch zorg, Old High German soraga, German sorge, Gothic saurga), perhaps from PIE *swergh- "to worry, be sick" (cf. Sanskrit surksati "cares for," Lithuanian sergu "to be sick," Old Church Slavonic sraga "sickness," Old Irish serg "sickness"). Not connected etymologically with sore (adj.) or sorry.
Old English sorgian, from sorg (see sorrow (n.)). Related: Sorrowed; sorrowing. Cf. Dutch zorgen, German sorgen, Gothic saurgan.
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