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“This town was the most beautiful girl in the Congo,” laments a friend sitting nearby.

“There is no such thing as an unbiased source,” laments one of them.

Dr. Christensen, who left the VA in 2003, laments the failure of Congress to perform oversight over the system.

“[The gluten-free one] is smaller and more money,” she laments, pointing to a box of pancake mix.

"She made those every Sunday morning, and every Sunday morning I was at church with my mother," he laments.

And then while the mother laments, preparations are made to follow the maiden to the shrines out yonder by the sea.

They listen, half-heeding, to the protests and laments; they could not help it, they explain—the music took hold of them.

If, on the contrary, he is employed in mean labours, he evidently grieves and laments his being thus debased.

"Mr. G.," he murmurs, "would not have done that," and laments a vanished subtlety even while Mr. Evesham is speaking.

The time passed so quickly that loud laments were heard when the mother announced that it was time for Leonore to retire.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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