wept
Americanverb
verb
Example Sentences
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When Nietzsche Wept by Irvin D Yalom It is 1882, just before the birth of psychoanalysis.
From The Guardian • May 10, 2017
One of these questioners is Chester Brown, a veteran cartoonist who has used scholarly research to come up with “Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus: Prostitution and religious obedience in the Bible.”
From Salon • Apr. 11, 2016
That’s when I first encountered Jane Schaberg’s book The Illegitimacy of Jesus, which was important to the central ideas in Mary Wept.
From Slate • Apr. 8, 2016
Chester Brown’s Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus may be the most provocative comic book published this year.
From Slate • Apr. 8, 2016
In wastes uncharted, far from bliss, I heard a writhing chaos hiss; And thought, that moved in time no more, Wept on some wild, pre-natal shore.—
From Ioläus The man that was a ghost by Mackereth, James Allan
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