wailful
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Throughout them all, she has to adjust continually an intricate assembly of instruments: turntable speed controls, cutting tools, a wailful of sound devices.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hector, here do we contend with the Danaans, at the limit of the wailful war, but, lo, the other Trojans are driven in flight confusedly, men and horses.
From The Iliad by Homer
Prodigality, I not mislike your wailful disposition; And therefore for you to the prince there shall be made petition, That though your punishment be not fully remitted, Yet in some part it may be qualified.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by William Carew Hazlitt
How low when angels fall their black descent, Our primal thunder tells: known is the pain Of music, that nigh throning wisdom went, And one false note cast wailful to the insane.
From Poems — Volume 1 by George Meredith
Proteus says: "You must lay lime to tangle her desires By wailful sonnets, whose composéd rhymes Should be full fraught with serviceable vows."
From The Man Shakespeare by Frank Harris
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