lacrymose

From time to time there came, during my stay, statements in sundry American newspapers, some belligerent, some lacrymose, regarding his attitude toward our country.

[Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White 1906

The conventional love songs, lacrymose and proper, contained nothing like the desires of man or the heart of woman.

Jean-Christophe, Volume I Romain Rolland 1905

Seeing his daughter, he was greatly delighted, and even lacrymose.

The Darling and Other Stories Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882

Some men also find the same pleasure in a lacrymose expression of countenance, seeming always to call for consolation: one of the most successful women I know owes her exceptional good fortune to this charm.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

Brussels, to ask for assistance, and to mention, with lacrymose vehemence, that both his brother and himself had determined to renounce the episcopate, unless the forces of the Spanish King could be employed to recover the cities on the Rhine.

History of the United Netherlands, 1586-89 — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845

Brussels, to ask for assistance, and to mention, with lacrymose vehemence, that both his brother and himself had determined to renounce the episcopate, unless the forces of the Spanish King could be employed to recover the cities on the Rhine.

History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609) John Lothrop Motley 1845

Brussels, to ask for assistance, and to mention, with lacrymose vehemence, that both his brother and himself had determined to renounce the episcopate, unless the forces of the Spanish King could be employed to recover the cities on the Rhine.

PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845

Brussels, to ask for assistance, and to mention, with lacrymose vehemence, that both his brother and himself had determined to renounce the episcopate, unless the forces of the Spanish King could be employed to recover the cities on the Rhine.

History of the United Netherlands, 1586c John Lothrop Motley 1845

Great stress has often been laid on the two last mentioned species as inventions entirely new, and of great importance, and peculiar theories have been devised for them, &c. In the lacrymose drama of

Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature August Wilhelm Schlegel 1806