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The flipside is that for two days, Toronto has been lamenting not pushing the ball enough and settling for the Wizards’ pace.

From Washington Times • Apr. 20, 2015

The Diary Habit A newspaper has been lamenting the decay of the diary-keeping habit, with the natural result that several correspondents have written to say that they have kept diaries all their lives.

From Not that it Matters by Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander)

The latter has been lamenting all the morning over a milliner's bill that in length and heaviness has far exceeded her anticipations.

From Portia or By Passions Rocked by Duchess

V.P.T.P.C. has been lamenting ever since that he could not have appeared as amicus curi� to point out that this testimony, until flatly contradicted, "must be taken as prim� facie evidence of a salting her."

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, December 19, 1891 by Various

Yet another endurable shortage is reported from the seaside, where an old sailor on the local sea front has been lamenting the spiritual starvation brought about by the war.

From Mr. Punch's History of the Great War by Graves, Charles L. (Charles Larcom)