Sentence examples for Greatly grieved from inspiring English sources

Elizabeth I proclaimed herself to be "greatly grieved and annoyed with the taste and smoke of sea-coales".

At this moment the bow was in the hands of Eurymachus, who was warming it by the fire, but even so he could not string it, and he was greatly grieved.

28 Marcus Antoninus was so greatly grieved at the death of Cassius that he could not bring himself even of the look at the severed head of his enemy, but before the murderers drew near gave orders that it should be buried.

It greatly grieves my father to see pictures like this of his grandparents' graves, but he is on a fixed income and does not have the money to correct the problem.

I know many women who have grieved greatly over the children they decided not to have, and I am thankful to have been spared that agonizing sadness of guilt and regret.

Furthermore, a pestilence visited Rome, in the course of which Camillus died; and the Romans grieved greatly at his death.

In real life, though, sex made her smell and taste (on herself and on her partner) the poison being pumped into her: "It grieved me greatly," she wisecracks, "that my love canal was now more like Love Canal".

Are they still living or are they already dead and in the house of Hades?" "I will tell you all about them," replied Eumaeus, "Laertes is still living and prays heaven to let him depart peacefully his own house, for he is terribly distressed about the absence of his son, and also about the death of his wife, which grieved him greatly and aged him more than anything else did.

… If before you yourself die your son should die, this would grieve you greatly.

The memorial service was a deep service to our whole family, greatly helping us to grieve - to feel and to express our jumble of emotions.

Two days later Abd al-Rahman proclaimed his strong support for the army's action, saying "It grieves me greatly to say that the politicians who have led the political parties have all failed.