lacrimose

• “Upon this he took flight to London and Hydra followed, repentant and lacrimose.”

  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great

• “They scraped together their pennies, borrowed a few more, got a single letter of introduction between them to some person of unknown influence, and started away, with the lacrimose blessings of the elderly bride, and of Davy's mother.”

  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great

• “Either they were veiled by a distant setting of the scene, or the indictment of the age was presented incidentally in connection with some lacrimose tragedy of the individual.”

  The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller

• “The event proved that he had reckoned well: the "brilliant drops" fell copiously, the innovation crossed the Channel, and soon the bourgeois tragedy, -- whence by an easy differentiation the lacrimose, pathetic, or serious comedy, -- had entered upon its European career.”

  The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller

• “On these trips if he did not take Madame along she would grow furious, then lacrimose and finally submissive -- with a weepy protest.”

  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8

• “Others were lean and lacrimose, with large families, fortunes impaired and futures mostly behind.”

  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators

• “At Tuskegee there is no lacrimose appeal to confess your sins -- they do better -- they forget them.”

  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers

• “Admittedly, there must be worse fates than being contractually obliged to write a whambamthankyoumamagram, such as being a peep-show booth wiper or managing Carlisle United or being educated at an unimportant school and if wrong I am, I shoot a load of tepid apologies right in yer faces and will perform a suitable act of contrition that will doubtless involve public nakedness, a lacrimose ambulanceperson and a radish.”

  CommanderBond.net

• “In a moment you'll either be asleep, dead, or lacrimose. ”

  Speaker for the Dead

• “His lacrimose raptures over so simple a thing as a youthful friendship; his abject confession of despair and dependence; his long-drawn-out revelation of a sick heart, and his morbid craving for sympathy in a passion which he himself feels to be abominable, ” all this suggests a cankered soul of which there can be little hope.”

  The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller

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