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From circumstances, or from natural peculiarity -- that light easy temper which dances like a feather over the troubled waters of life -- she had evidently never learnt the meaning of the word sorrow.
Agatha's Husband A Novel Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 1856
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It doesn't preach, it doesn't revert to the obvious, it makes you think, it makes you care about its characters, it ends in, if not joy, then, certainly not in sorrow.
Michael Jones: Life After Death: Hereafter Michael Jones 2010
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It doesn't preach, it doesn't revert to the obvious, it makes you think, it makes you care about its characters, it ends in, if not joy, then, certainly not in sorrow.
Michael Jones: Life After Death: Hereafter Michael Jones 2010
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"What a pity that such a being should ever know the meaning of the word sorrow.
Marguerite Verne Rebecca Agatha Armour
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Yesterday had me almost literally drowning in sorrow.
What I'm learning about... tragic_elegance 2008
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No one of all that merry party was readier for song, or jest, or manly sport, than he; and yet he, too, had his share of that bitter cup which mortals call sorrow.
Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall
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Indeed, obtaining the medicine of wisdom, which is truly very efficacious and is almost unattainable, the man of restrained soul would kill that serious disease called sorrow.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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The ships all manned their rigging, cheered, and played 'God save the Queen' and 'I am leaving thee in sorrow.'
The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton William Henry Burton Wilkins 1897
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On the contrary, he was the quietest person present, and among all the emotions his white face mirrored I saw no signs of what might be called sorrow.
The Filigree Ball Being a full and true account of the solution of the mystery concerning the Jeffrey-Moore affair Anna Katharine Green 1890
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She came up to Zoe, and putting her arms round her neck, said, "I seem to love you so much more than ever I did, since you were in sorrow."
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