Example Sentences

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Thy woeful wound, thine anguish, shall be healed,   If thou but come with us to Achaea's host—   The host that now is sorrowing after thee   With all its kings.

From The Fall of Troy by Way, Arthur Sanders

Wherever a friend of Jesus is sorrowing, One stands by, unseen, who shares the grief, whose heart feels every pang of the sorrow.

From Personal Friendships of Jesus by Miller, J. R. (James Russell)

And the Boeotians open the vaults of the Sorrowful One, naming that festival sorrowful because Demeter is sorrowing for the descent of the Maiden.

From The Golden Bough by Frazer, James George, Sir

The lord is sorrowing within for his dead wife and dead son.

From Six Women by Cross, Victoria

At one time she is sorrowing for her lord and at another for her son.

From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 by Ganguli, Kisari Mohan