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Nor union bids me live in joy, nor parting kills by grief,
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Restes de grand Pompée, écoutez sa moitié, etc. O dreadful, tender object of my grief,
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The old Jew stared wildly, rushed forward as if to seize his hand, then started back, trembling convulsively, and clutching his withered hands over his face, said, with a burst of grief,
Burlesques 2006
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Sweet father, cease your tears; for, at your grief,
Titus Andronicus 2004
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The Factor consider'd that thing wou'd cause grief,
The Factor's Garland 1999
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Their father had distracted run and overcome with grief,
Meagher's Children 1952
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The others looked at Marcellus with mournful eyes, and the lady Caecilia cried out in an agony of grief,
The Martyr of the Catacombs A Tale of Ancient Rome Anonymous
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Rides on the Emp'ror; filled with wrath and grief,
La Chanson de Roland : Translated from the Seventh Edition of Léon Gautier L��once [Translator] Rabillon
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That another would steal on the hour of thy grief,
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various
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O Friend, thy brow is overcast; but haply for thy grief,
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864 Various
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