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sweeping

[swee-ping] / ˈswi pɪŋ /


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So the "Indians" of the New World never meet after long parting without beweeping mutual friends they have lost.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Yet haue mine eies quite drawne their Conduits drie By long beweeping my disastred harmes.

From A Discourse of Life and Death, by Mornay; and Antonius by Garnier by Herbert, Mary Sidney

Hark, in Ramah is heard lamentation  15 And bitterest weeping, Rachel beweeping her children, And will not be comforted,648 For they are not.

From Jeremiah : Being The Baird Lecture for 1922 by Smith, George Adam, Sir




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