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It is not properly a screech or a scream, like that of the Hawk or the Peacock, but rather a sort of moaning melody, half music and half bewailment.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 by Various

They often spoke of poverty, but rather as a thing to be baffled by good-humored contrivance or rendered endurable by habit than as matter for complaint and bewailment.

From That Boy Of Norcott's by Lever, Charles James

To you, therefore, as to the Sir Philip Sidney of modern Arcadia, do I address the voice of my bewailment.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 by Various