grievings

Come, wash earth's grievings from out of the face,

The Ontario High School Reader A.E. Marty

No fears, no worryings, no hatreds, no jealousies, no sorrowings, no grievings, no sordid graspings after inordinant [Transcriber's note: inordinate?] gain, have found entrance into her realm of thought.

In Tune with the Infinite or, Fullness of Peace, Power, and Plenty Ralph Waldo Trine 1912

There were left behind no lingering animosities, no painful grievings.

Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life Stuart Oliver Henry 1906

There, when the blow came at last, Flora's melodious grievings were soon over, and her sweet reasonableness, her tender exculpation not alone of this dear friend but even of the silly fellows who had done the deed, and her queenly, patriotic self-obliteration, were more admirable than can be described.

Kincaid's Battery George Washington Cable 1884

THE CONFESSIONAL, might make a stirring tale, or haply a series of them: the cowled hypocrite suggesting crime to those whose answer is all innocence; his schemes of ambition, or avarice, or lust, slowly elaborated by the fiend-like purposes to which he puts his ill-used knowledge of the human heart; his sacrilegious violation of the holy grievings made by mistaken penitence.

The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849

THE CONFESSIONAL, might make a stirring tale, or haply a series of them: the cowled hypocrite suggesting crime to those whose answer is all innocence; his schemes of ambition, or avarice, or lust, slowly elaborated by the fiend-like purposes to which he puts his ill-used knowledge of the human heart; his sacrilegious violation of the holy grievings made by mistaken penitence.

An Author's Mind : The Book of Title-pages Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849

And yet through it all, David was called a man after God's own heart, due to his true and deep grievings for his wrongs.

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And yet through it all, David was called a man after God's own heart, due to his true and deep grievings for his wrongs.

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a blessed thing it is to see the first grievings of the awakened spirit, when it cries, 'I cannot see myself a sinner; I cannot pray, for my vile heart wanders!'

The Biography of Robert Murray M'Cheyne Andrew A. Bonar 1851