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sadness

How to use sadness in a sentence

And for fear of being ill spoken of weep bitterly for a day, and then comfort thyself in thy sadness.

For of sadness cometh death, and it overwhelmeth the strength, and the sorrow of the heart boweth down the neck.

Give not up thy heart to sadness, but drive it from thee: and remember the latter end.

Beauty was there; but it was the beauty of sadness; it was the crushed ruin of what might once have been bright and aspiring.

With deep personal sadness I learn that your country has urgent need of your great experience elsewhere.

She controlled her voice into a tone of gentle sadness; she set a mask of sorrow upon her insolent face.

"I was in love, and three-and-twenty," said the doctor, looking drolly guilty in the midst of his sadness.

Everywhere there was a sense of recent occupation, an impression of sadness and gloom.

"She had great cause," was his answer, spoken with a strange sadness that surprised both the dowager and Lady Hartledon.

ELSTER'S FOLLYMRS. HENRY WOOD

The poet's lyre has not many strings, and the strains of sadness, of pensive melancholy, are almost absent.

FRDRIC MISTRALCHARLES ALFRED DOWNER

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985