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- If the purpose of lamentation be to excite pity, it is surely superfluous for age and weakness to tell their plaintive stories;… — Lyndon B. Johnson
- The proliferation of right-to-carry laws throughout the states has drawn plaintive complaints from the criminal element. They feel that it makes their… — Jeff Cooper
- Light griefs are plaintive , but great ones are dumb — Seneca the Younger
- The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos. — Lydia M. Child
- It was an unforgettable picture to see Chopin sitting at the piano like a clairvoyant, lost in his dreams; to see how… — Robert Schumann
- The madness of the eyes is the lure of the abyss. Sirens lurk in the dark depths of the pupils as they… — Jean Lorrain
- ... the student skit at Christmas contained a plaintive line: "Give us Master's exams that our faculty can pass, or give us… — Paul Halmos
- I wanted a line in a poem to be the hollow ney of the dervish orchestra whose plaintive wail is a call… — Anne Michaels
- I sometimes think that the most plaintive ditty has brought a fuller joy and of longer duration to its composer that the… — Walter Savage Landor
- I am not by any stretch of the imagination a tidy person, and the piles of unread books on the coffee table… — Linda Grant
- O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood, The holy name of Grief--holy herein,… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream, Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep… — John Keats