Weepings

In seconds, quiet weepings lurched into audible sobs, dampened eyes blinked fast and then spilled messy tears. ❋ Paul Brandeis Raushenbush (2011)

One atop the other they sat, her trapped weepings, encased in perfect crystal. ❋ Omnivoracious (2009)

I recalled reading Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild's anthology Global Woman, a sociologically important book, and thinking helplessly at one point, But what can I do if a young Filipina fell in love and moved in with an abusive unemployed alcoholic — and yet somehow managed, between the weepings and beatings, to create four children? ❋ Unknown (2005)

And shall we proceed to get rid of the weepings and wailings of famous men? ❋ Unknown (2006)

There was a fearful outcry, hysterics of an elegant order, and weepings enough to produce summer spate in the ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)

Look you, I have noticed in my long life that those who eternally break in upon Those Above with complaints and reports and bellowings and weepings are presently sent for in haste, as our Colonel used to send for slack-jawed down-country men who talked too much. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Some gaped at me and some gabbled, while others, with helpless weepings, embraced my knees, protesting at every word from us that they were fellow Moslems and my brothers in the faith. ❋ Thomas Edward (2003)

Most of the crew liked the boy and had decided to treat his frequent weepings as simply a mild aberration, related in some way to his nationality. ❋ Larry McMurtry (1995)

We're great ones for the lamentations, the weepings and the wailings in the Mountains of Mourne. ❋ MacLean, Alistair (1986)

And throughout all her weepings he had remained firm. ❋ Clavell, James (1981)

And all her frantic weepings and pleadings made no difference. ❋ Clavell, James (1981)

And when being wearied with these cries, and tired with these weepings, they held their peace, ❋ Anonymous (N/A)