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Sir, -Many sincere Christians lament alcohol being sold today, Good Friday.
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Advocates of hybrid technology often lament the high cost of the cars.
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Bowman was left to lament a missed opportunity, but not for long.
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The next is the lament of the mother over her dead son:
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No need to lament a scarcity that's in your hands to change.
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The requiem mass is being held at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church.
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He was deeply moved by the occasion; his address was a requiem.
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And the white-barred river near it sings a requiem all the while.
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They flashed beams vertically at the ceiling; a signal, or a requiem.
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The ringing in the coffin is the new requiem... No one answers.'
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But changing the painful dirge that is our national anthem would help.
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Since then we have often heard the death dirge sung in Montenegro.
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Having intoned the two lines the flock took up the doleful dirge.
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Another change of frequencies brought orchestral music into the room-a funeral dirge.
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They were a paean of passion, but the dirge of its denial.
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The letter to his wife after he reached Washington was a threnody.
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Stern advanced the spark and now the screw sang a louder, higher threnody.
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It is the difference between an inchoate wail and a threnody.
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Not the least touching is Luigi's own threnody, which starts upon this note:-
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Poliziano poured forth his sorrow in a Latin threnody of touching and simple beauty.
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A chorus of singing tars must create uncommon emotion, chanting this coronach of the storm.
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There shall never be coronach cried, or dirge played, for thee or thy bloody wolf-burd.
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But when they fell there was none to sing their coronach or wail the death-wail over them.
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In a few minutes they arrived at a thatched building; from which, to their surprise, issued the wailing strains of the coronach.
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Then rose the last coronach of his own people, hiding in wild glens, starving in corries, or going hopelessly to the death.
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Bruce ordered his bards to raise the sad coronach, and the march commenced toward the open tent that canopied the sacred remains.
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At the grave, the orator, or senachie, pronounced the panegyric of the defunct, every period being confirmed by a yell of the coronach.
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There more than once in what remained of the night, he woke, fancying he heard the ghost-music sounding its coronach over the dead below.
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There was a boding of ill in her cry, like a coronach, and the domestics took it up in sympathy, as Highland women will.
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"Art thou come, doomed of Heaven, to hear thy sad coronach?"
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"In the grasses and the bracken," said Gilian, singing it to himself as if it were a coronach.
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A chorus of singing tars must create uncommon emotion, chanting this coronach of the storm.
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There shall never be coronach cried, or dirge played, for thee or thy bloody wolf-burd.
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But when they fell there was none to sing their coronach or wail the death-wail over them.
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In a few minutes they arrived at a thatched building; from which, to their surprise, issued the wailing strains of the coronach.
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Then rose the last coronach of his own people, hiding in wild glens, starving in corries, or going hopelessly to the death.