Parker could weep -- and he wept astonishingly often and on the slightest provocation -- but the psychology of those tears was entirely compatible with a remorseless readiness to massacre his opponents.

When Mercer looked on helplessly, the half-man twisted over on his side, his pink dusty back turned to Mercer, and wept hoarsely and quietly to himself.

He is said to have wept for joy on Louis ' behalf on being personally shown Zinj, which Louis and Mary carried around in a tin ( later a box ).

Although Pius XII received frequent reports about atrocities committed by and / or against Catholics, his knowledge was incomplete ; for example, he wept after the war on learning that Cardinal Hlond had banned German liturgical services in Poland.

Attending Lincoln's funeral on April 19, Grant stood alone and wept openly.

When the Apostle Paul took leave of the elders of the congregation at Ephesus, " they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck and kissed him " ( Acts 20: 37 ).

Nienna wept on the mound of Ezellohar, watering it with her tears.

After the destruction of the Two Trees by Melkor, she wept on their remains, cleansing the filth of Ungoliant, and helping to nurture the fruit and the flower that became the Sun and the Moon.

" While sailing on the Nile he lost his Antinous, for whom he wept like a woman.

In the Iliad, it is told how, when Patroclus was killed in battle, Xanthus and Balius stood motionless on the field of battle, and wept.

When the Bastille was stormed and looted on July 14, 1789 during the height of the French Revolution, Sade believed the work was lost forever and later wrote that he " wept tears of blood " over its loss.

* An old English folk tale states that when Jesus was crucified on the cross, all of the world's birds wept and sang to comfort him in his agony.

Pepys remarks on 14 November: " Sir G. Cartaret tells me that just now my Lord Holles had been with him and wept to think in what a condition we are fallen.

Early in the fifth century AD Claudian, in his poem, On the Fourth Consulship of the Emperor Honorius, Book VIII, rhapsodizes on the conquests of the emperor Theodosius I, declaring that the Orcades ran red with Saxon slaughter ; Thule was warm with the blood of Picts ; ice-bound Hibernia wept for the heaps of slain Scots.

She reported that Holliday came back to his room, sat on the bed, wept and said, " that was awful — awful ".

However, the iconic ' Amul girl ' wept ( first time ever since she has been on billboards for decades ) as her " father figure " will no more be there with her.

My soul was in an agony ; I wept, I prayed, and said, " Now, Lord, if there is mercy for me, let me find it ," and it really seemed to me that I could almost lay hold of the Saviour, and realize a reconciled God, All of a sudden, such a fear of the devil fell upon me that it really appeared to me that he was surely personally there, to seize and drag me down to hell, soul and body, and such a horror fell on me that I sprang to my feet and ran to my mother at the house.

Kimball's wife recounted that Kimball, who was not prone to tears, afterward lay on the floor of their home and wept uncontrollably as she tried to comfort him.

Jewish tradition teaches that Rachel weeps for her children and that when the Jews were taken into exile, she wept as they passed by her grave on the way to Babylonia.

" Smith reportedly wept on the air when discussing this article, which he called " so profoundly hurtful I didn't know what to do.

Robin Allan writes in his book Walt Disney and Europe that " Ken Anderson wept when he saw how his character concepts had been processed into stereotypes for the animation on Robin Hood.

He perused the fleeing group to their retreat and on recovering the harp he played the most ancient form of Irish music starting with the goltrai until the women wept, he played the geantrai until they all burst out in laugher and then he played the suantrai until they all fell asleep, after which he released his Harper and brought him back.

Stowe had stated that her sons had wept when she first read them the scene of Uncle Tom's death, but after Baldwin's essay it ceased being respectable to accept the melodrama of the Uncle Tom story.

At first they were incredulous at being harangued by a scholar but at the end of his passionate evocation of the duties and merits of the jihad warrior, according to Kamal ad-Din, the contemporary historian of Aleppo, these hardened professionals wept with emotion and rode into battle.

Carl at first refused to believe it, and this was the only time he was ever known to have wept.

At the first hearings of the Seventh, listeners typically wept.

During the first performance of the symphony, people were reported to have wept during the Largo movement.

Betty says he wept in his sleep for the first four years of their marriage and kept a large knife in a dresser drawer for " protection ".

In Michael Sragow's 2008 biography of the director, he claims that Fleming, who was, according to Sragrow, romantically involved with Ingrid Bergman at the time, was deeply unhappy with the finished product, and even wept upon seeing it for the first time.

:" Shame on me and all those who rash and impudent, and without meditation and without improving our souls, in this world set out to paint a portrait of the most Holy Queen of Angels, Mother of the Almighty, she who was full of grace, she who will be our means for gaining heaven ... How well this was understood by that holy monastic painter Brother Juan Fesulano ..( who ) never started to paint without praying first .. and ( who ) wept whenever he painted Christ on the Cross.

Perhaps her eyes were larger and more of a summer blue for all they had seen and wept that day.

wept day and night for the sins and blindness of the world had a long walk through the trees and woods by his house, where he constantly walked morning and evening, and even in the depths of the night, alone by himself, for contemplation and the enjoyment of the dispensation of light.

When James told Mary that she was to marry her cousin, " she wept all that afternoon and all the following day.

Describing his confirmation, when he as 12 year old, Padre Pio said that he " wept with consolation " whenever he thought of that day because " I remember what the Most Holy Spirit caused me to feel that day, a day unique and unforgettable in all my life!

When he died in 220 at the age of 45 ( by East Asian age reckoning ) because of an illness, Liu Bei was said to have wept day after day for him and gave him the posthumous rank of " Marquis of Wing "; he was the only person who was given a posthumous marquis rank by Liu Bei.

When the 104th assembled the next day and roll was called, those who were still standing openly wept at the loss of over half of their men who had attacked.

When Juhayman was arrested he refused to speak to anyone until a group of scholars from Medina who were his teachers, led by Shaykh Muhammad al-Ameen ash-Shanqeeti, visited him in prison and embraced him and wept severely and asked him for his justification.

When he was sent the script, Depp " wept like a newborn " and immediately found personal and emotional connections with the story.

Here is still found an ahuehuete tree called the " Tree of the Sad Night " because Cortés supposedly wept here after his defeat.

We pulled and swore and yanked and wept, scraping our hands until they bled profusely.

And when he was alone again in the cabin, Alexander lowered his head into his arms and wept, for he knew full well what must be done, what in the end would be done.

It came to him as he wept there aboard the Somers that it was as foolish to strive for greatness as to seek to storm the gates of heaven.

Mercer, despite his happiness, wept a little at the strange fate of B'dikkat.

A devastated Niobe fled to Mount Sipylos in Asia Minor and turned into stone as she wept.

An explanation for this choice can only be conjectured from Ibn al-Athir ’ s account of the battle between Alp-Arslan and Kutalmish, in which he writes that Alp-Arslan wept for the latter's death and greatly mourned the loss of his kinsman.

Dionysus wept tears of wine in remorse for his action at the sight of the beautiful statue.

A devastated Niobe and her remaining children were turned to stone by Artemis as they wept.

His servants ask why he wept when the baby was alive, but ends his mourning when the child dies.

David replies: " While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept.

Plato wept while offering her gratitude, as well to a later caller who claimed to be a recovering addict, and told her that he believed everything she said.

There were numerous critical comments about Blyton: claiming that her vocabulary was too limited, that she presented too rosy a view of the world, even suggestions that little Noddy's relationship with Big Ears was " suspect ", that he was a poor role model for boys because he sometimes wept when frustrated and the laws were politically incorrect.

Perhaps as a result of the pharaoh's role in Pompey's murder, Caesar sided with Cleopatra ; he is reported to have wept at the sight of Pompey's head, which was offered to him by the pharaoh as a gift.

They embraced each other and wept together for quite a while.

According to sportswriter Ed Fitzgerald in SPORT magazine, "< nowiki ></ nowiki > omen wept unashamed and the entire courtroom burst into spontaneous, prolonged applause.

A devastated Niobe fled to Mount Sipylus in Asia Minor and either turned to stone as she wept or killed herself.

Many subjects showed high levels of distress during the experiment and some openly wept.

When Moctezuma was allegedly killed by being stoned to death by his own people " Cortés and all of us captains and soldiers wept for him, and there was no one among us that knew him and had dealings with him who did not mourn him as if he were our father, which was not surprising, since he was so good.

As the 17th century British commentator Matthew Henry notes, " Mary added no more, as Martha did ; but it appears, by what follows, that what she fell short in words she made up in tears ; she said less than Martha, but wept more.

Even as he was uncompromising toward Russia's battlefield enemies, he also rejected any fraternization with the capitalist Allied powers: he reportedly wept when he learned of official negotiations for assistance.