sorrower

Example Sentences

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The very breezes grieve for her, A lonely grief; For her each tree is sorrower, Each blade and leaf.

From Weeds by the Wall Verses by Cawein, Madison Julius

Room was made for the sorrower, who was followed by two or three female friends.

From The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day by Scott, Walter, Sir

Full believer likewise, and true sorrower, was Greenleaf, in Hilary's death, having its seeming proof from Constance and Miranda as well as from Flora.

From Kincaid's Battery by Kimball, Alonzo

Grief is a matter of relativity; the sorrow should be estimated by its proportion to the sorrower; a gash is as painful to one as an amputation to another. 

From Shelley; an essay by Thompson, Francis