| You have no idea what a confusion and lamentation there was all over the State. |
| His skald, Thorkell, wrote a telling lamentation for his dead master, which given the foolishness of his actions does not seem truly deserved. |
| In other words, it is much better to have defiant, life-affirming laughter than tears and lamentation. |
| English's Germanic cousins are more vivid: German calls it Karfreitag, from an old German root chara, meaning lamentation. |
| Mr Scruton, a man prone to bouts of lamentation, has produced a delightfully short chronicle of the church's decline. |
| The drama opens with Boni's lamentation about the struggles of life in Bonikope. |
