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"Eat, drink, and be merry," he counselled lachrymosely, "for to-morrow we may be married."
Married Life The True Romance May Edginton 1920
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You might have thought that Leonora would be just calmly loathing and he lachrymosely contrite.
The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford 1906
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Other types of literature, "theoretical, self-referential, lachrymosely autobiographical", are acknowledged to exist, "but they were just dry wanks".
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On such occasions the Beeb's presenters adopt the posture of a keening relative, waxing lachrymosely about the dead woman and her "devastated" relatives.
unknown title 2009
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Is he a pseudo-Marxist as his largely secret talk in San Francisco indicated … where he berated average people in Appalachia who didn't vote for him for "clinging" to religion in their poverty-paraphrasing religion the opium of the people dictum where Marx lachrymosely wails in behalf of the downtrodden who substitute God for material gains, a direct parallel?
THE IRATE NATION 2008
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