sorrowfulness

I suppose we were then led to the sacrifice at the several side altars, but I have no specific recollection of them; I know there was a pale, sick-looking young girl in white who went about with her father, and moved compassion by her gentle sorrowfulness.

Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

The flute-like sorrowfulness of the organ thrills through my blood; my nerves vibrate in responsive echo.

Hunger 2003

The next section is one long wail over the contradictions, the mysteries, the dark end, the infinite sorrowfulness of all existence, and the arcanum of grief which, Luther said, underlies all life.

The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi 2003

For thus dost Thou, O Lord God, who lovest souls far more purely than we, and hast more incorruptibly pity on them, yet are wounded with no sorrowfulness.

The Confessions 1999

And from the bed arose a wail more terrible in its utter, eternal sorrowfulness than had ever fallen upon the ears of those present.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

The old street -- the portion of it which remains -- looks with a dazed and dirty sorrowfulness up the broad, clean avenue which once was dirty and narrow like itself.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 Various

_There the idiot sat_, portrait in hand, encountering me with a look of unutterable sorrowfulness.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843 Various

The holy Patriarch had so tender a love for his brethren, that he could not bear that a shade of sorrowfulness should pass over their minds, lest they should lose their spiritual joy.

The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi Father Candide Chalippe

When she looked around it was with a sorrowfulness as of farewell.

Nocturne Frank Swinnerton 1933

The holy Patriarch had so tender a love for his brethren, that he could not bear that a shade of sorrowfulness should pass over their minds, lest they should lose their spiritual joy.

The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi Chalippe, Father Candide 1917