“What is best in life? To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.”

“After midnight, we heard a loud lamentation, as though from one in extreme terror, broken by bursts of weeping.”

“His skald, Thorkell, wrote a telling lamentation for his dead master, which given the foolishness of his actions does not seem truly deserved.”

“All those living who heard her lament were deeply moved.”

“Conan, ever the scoundrel and barbarian, expressed great delight in hearing a woman's lament.”

“How can she listen to his lament about his new girl's nail-biting habit when she can't even find a date?”

“Mr. Bush..., noting first the lamentability of public violence against property(!) and holding responsible, once again, those black bodies on the street.”

“Clearly, it is this imbalance, and not the procreative revolution that it provokes, that constitutes the lamentability of this future for Forster's narrator.”

“Mr. Bush..., noting first the lamentability of public violence against property and holding responsible, once again, those black bodies on the street.”

“Rester les bras croises et se contenter de se lamenter en disant que c'est le destin ou agir?”

“What of that great lamenter, Jeremiah, who was as much tormentor as tormented?”

“After their arguments, tears would burst like rivers in flood and lamentations rose like smoke from the house.”

“More lamentations than actual singing, the voice becomes an integrant part of each track.”

“For the last few years, Victoria's walls have reverberated with lamentations of the defunct student days of yore.”

“I have also had the opportunity to witness and record other Vepsian lamenters.”

“Lamenters draw upon a stock of images and metaphors, coined by the most prolific members of the profession, to embody and mourn the deceased.”

“The new album incorporates ethnic vocal laments from Eastern Europe and a dirge-like hymn from a Croatian church congregation.”

“She laments that she will no longer be the doyenne of Boston society that she once was.”

“His partner Doyle, an Anglicised Irishman, laments his fellow-countrymen's irresolute dreaming and victim culture.”