Example Sentences

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Punctuality is very necessary in regard to everything connected with a funeral service, as the overwrought nerves of those who are sorrowing should not be taxed to bear any extra tension.

From The Etiquette of To-day by Ordway, Edith B.

Dickens was so full of life that it did not seem possible he could die, and yet he has gone before us, and we are sorrowing for him. . . .

From The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by Forster, John

Why is it not granted us to cheer the hearts and illumine the minds of those who are sorrowing so vainly over our cold dust?”

From In Both Worlds by Holcombe, William Henry

They whose voices were heard in my halls are now speechless and they who so lately rejoiced are sorrowing.

From The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish by Cooper, James Fenimore

But, Kalulu, at Zanzibar, Abdullah and I have mothers, who are sorrowing for us.

From My Kalulu, Prince, King and Slave A Story of Central Africa by Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton)