Sentence examples for knew sorrow from inspiring English sources

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But he knew sorrow, too.

Besides the awkward in-law arrangement, the house knew sorrow and tribulation.

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Asked if he's known sorrow since his downfall, he declared, "I don't have time to get depressed that's a luxury for the rich".

I can give him a heart that has known sorrow and pain, but loves more richly, deeply, and wholly as a result.

And this: "A bitter rain came down for days on end, as if the gods knew my sorrow".

I know the sorrow you experience".

Spargo supplements these episodes with a shady Cuban playboy, a night-club stabbing, and an aged fortune-teller who informs Zelda that she has known great sorrow.

They are kind towards those in affliction, having known great sorrow themselves: for their only child, a daughter, mysteriously disappeared years and years ago-, anownow they are old and childless.

("There are two kinds of people in this world: those who have known inescapable sorrow and those who have not"). She becomes a target of Senator Joseph McCarthy's Communist witch hunt.

All that was implicit in Atkins's performance, which began with a long silent stare that suggested this was a woman who had known unspeakable sorrow, but who also possessed the resilience that is the key to Beckett's characters.

She sang Bach's secular cantata "Non Sa Che Sia Dolore" ("None Can Know the Sorrow") (BWV 209), a little lament on the departure of a friend that leads in the end to rollicking good wishes for favorable winds and waves.

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