Sentence examples for mourn like from inspiring English sources

** *** ** Robinson on a roof above the Heights; the boats Mourn like the lost.

"We wanted to mourn like everyone else," he continued, "but we had to be looking over our shoulders.

He is dying of syphilis, and the two (as Mr. Findley tells us a bit too didactically) make a symbiotic trade-off: he will try to teach the hardened queen to mourn like a woman, and she will try to teach him to die like a man.

Their mourning, like their living, is singular and isolated.

We talk about "style icons"; Diana was mourned like a goddess.

Chopped hair could be used to imitate the leaves of trees associated with mourning, like the weeping willow.

Faust, like most American academic historians, is a pragmatically lily-livered social constructionist: she thinks that ways of mourning, like lust and greed and kinship and other seemingly hardwired features of human experience, are remarkably plastic.

The critic in Ms. O'Rourke brings an argument to bear in these pages — the idea that, as a society, we may have been wrong to abandon the public rituals of mourning, like the wearing of black, the beating of chests.

But for generations of followers, the unassuming singer was more than an icon: she was someone who felt like one of us, and who will be mourned like an absent friend.

But what can you say about a work that expresses anger and outrage through a percussive, clangorous variant of "Hail to the Chief" that keeps interrupting the mourning like a battering ram?

I am not saying that the absence of German rockers from the scene is a bad thing, something that I lay awake at night mourning, like the sack of Troy or the fact that the Proclaimers, like Nena, never had a follow-up hit.