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Meanings of long grief in English

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Usage of long grief in English
1
It was good, manly advice, but a long grief lay behind it.
The Boys' Life of Mark Twain
2
Her life- long grief was that her children had died without baptism.
The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation
3
She respected his honesty-evenhis reasoning, but his doubts were a long grief to her, nevertheless.
Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume I, Part 2: 1866-1875
4
Drakon imagined Gaiene greeting the bombardment with a sense of relief that his long grief was ending.
Perilous Shield
5
Paris himself died soon after by another poisoned arrow, but that was no long grief to anybody!
Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew
6
It was not a life- long grief.
Absalom's Hair
7
Since then there had been ten years of anxious, longing grief that had remained unconfessed until this night.
Scottish sketches
8
This same letter, written when he was seventeen, tells three other of his life- long griefs-lackof funds, ill health, and melancholia.
The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 1
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