Beevor wrote that most of the population were numb from the shock and quoted a British soldier who recalled that "most... women were crying, grief-stricken and anguished".
Part of the crying was grief, of course -- that sweet dog had made me happy -- but it also felt like a cleansing: Whatever feelings came up, they flowed out with the tears.
While the Brazilian players cried with grief, the Uruguayans wept with a mixture of joy and disbelief as they did a lap of honour of the stadium.
Shopkeepers who arrived to find their small retail businesses in embers cried in grief.
So when my own young and vibrant mother was diagnosed with the very same cancer not five months after Maynard's death, I fell to my knees and cried with grief, with anger, and above all with terror.
She goes back to her house and there enjoys the luxury of open grief, crying on the shoulder of their Mexican servant.
Many said that they saw the children's mother, Patricia Melton, who was not home when the fire started, run to the ambulance and collapse in grief, crying, "My babies, my babies".
Some people were in grief, crying.
The statue, featuring Grief crying on the shoulder of a female personification of History, sits conveniently close to the U.S. Capitol Building.
When reality star Evelyn Lozada had her first miscarriage last year, she curled up in bed and stayed there crying, consumed with grief.
