Example Sentences

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A natural ecstatic, he was also a chronic depressive: not a passive shut-down case, but a lamenter and yearner.

From New York Times • Jun. 24, 2010

This winsome adaptation of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn celebrated the frontier in music and lyrics by Roger Miller, a wistful lamenter of the lost open road.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nevertheless, the loudest lamenter is not unworthy; and so I repeat that he shall have the silk suit.

From The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764 by Anonymous

I am extreme annoyed and fluttered, yet would not be a vain lamenter neither.

From The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty by Beck, L. Adams (Lily Adams)

The heart of the poet, the singer, is now filled with woe; he departs and leaves behind him only the lamenter, the reproacher, the rebel.

From Lectures on Russian Literature Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, Tolstoy by Panin, Ivan