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.

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

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.

They both wept when reading Johnston's The Long Roll ( 1911 ) and Cease Firing ( 1912 ).

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.

In Genesis it is written that when Jacob was dead, " Joseph fell upon his father's face and wept upon him and kissed him.

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.

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.

Branson says that he wept when the sale was completed since the record business had been the birth of the Virgin Empire.

* 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.

The poem about Avalon that Corwin quotes to Ganelon alludes to both Psalm 137 (" By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept when we remembered Zion ") as well as to a classic nursery rhyme (" How many miles to Babylon?

He later informed Alexander Haig that his country had been placed in serious danger as a result ; when Haig told him that American ground forces would not be used to assist the Cambodian army, but that ( in accordance with the Nixon Doctrine ) a programme of aid would be given instead, Lon Nol openly wept.

Haim wept when he was told on-camera that there was no role for him in the film.

He bore the operation with great courage ; it was hardly over when Napoleon came up and, kneeling beside the stretcher, wept as he embraced the marshal.

For all his bluff and bluster, Suvorov later told an English traveler that when the massacre was over he went back to his tent and wept.

For all his bluffness, Suvorov later told an English traveller that when the massacre was over he went back to his tent and wept.

For all his bluffness, Suvorov later told an English traveller that when the massacre was over he went back to his tent and wept.

Xu was a filial son and he wept when he heard that his mother was confined by Cao Cao.

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!

Barbellion sums up his life in one of the last entries in The Journal of a Disappointed Man: " I am only twenty-eight, but I have telescoped into those few years a tolerably long life: I have loved and married, and have a family ; I have wept and enjoyed, struggled and overcome, and when the hour comes I shall be content to die.

Although a great victory, Zhuge Liang is said to have wept at the destruction when he viewed the valley.

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.

* 1: 1-14 Introduction: " And these are the words ... which Baruch ... wrote in Babylonia .... And when they heard it they wept, and fasted, and prayed before the Lord.

Fulcher of Chartres says " The Franks wept, the Syrians, and even the Saracens who saw it grieved also.

When Rae Shankar Das saw that Sir Syed's mind was made up and nothing could be done to change it, he wept and remained silent.

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.

There were reports he wept bitterly when he saw the aftermath of the crash.

And hitherto most of us had been able to control our sorrow ; but now when we saw him drinking, and saw too that he had finished the draught, we could no longer forbear, and in spite of myself my own tears were flowing fast ; so that I covered my face and wept, not for him, but at the thought of my own calamity in having to part from such a friend.

When he saw the body of the dead king, the Emperor is said to have wept for him, saying it was a shame that illness should deny a brave man such as the King of Shewa, the honor of falling in battle.

The Koreans have dubbed the crane " Tears of Malmoe ", due to the notion that the residents of Malmö wept when they saw their crane being towed away.

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 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.

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.

Upon returning and seeing the canvas ( but not yet recognizing it ) Kandinsky fell to his knees and wept, saying it was the most beautiful painting he had ever seen.

Boromir, realizing what had happened, repented his actions and wept.

The death was presented as an accident, " but it was believed at the time that Antinous had been sacrificed or had sacrificed himself ," and Hadrian " wept for him like a woman.

They started at once, and went about among the Lotus-eaters, who did them no hurt, but gave them to eat of the lotus, which was so delicious that those who ate of it left off caring about home, and did not even want to go back and say what had happened to them, but were for staying and munching lotus with the Lotus-eaters without thinking further of their return ; nevertheless, though they wept bitterly I forced them back to the ships and made them fast under the benches.

Joseph wept as they spoke and told them that what had happened was God ’ s purpose to save lives and the lives of his family.

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.

Draupadi wept and said she had nothing to offer him.

The special reporter for the October 17, 1917 edition of the Lisbon daily, O Dia, reported the following, "... the silver sun, enveloped in the same gauzy purple light was seen to whirl and turn in the circle of broken clouds ... The light turned a beautiful blue, as if it had come through the stained-glass windows of a cathedral, and spread itself over the people who knelt with outstretched hands ... people wept and prayed with uncovered heads, in the presence of a miracle they had awaited.

* Kahless looked into the ocean and wept, for the sword was all he had left of his father and the sea filled with his tears and flooded beyond the shore.

Upon hearing that Orage had also signed, Gurdjieff wept.

After healing Sir Urry, Lancelot wept as a " chylde that had bene beatyn ," ( 644 ) because he recognized his own failure as a person and as a knight.

The homeowner returned to find that his deck had a large hole in it, and subsequently launched into a lengthy tirade while his wife wept.

Deep in sorrow, the legend states, the grieving woman for whom they had contested wept over their deaths ; her tears created the Osum River.

He was so overwhelmed by this recognition that he hid himself away in the lavatory and wept for fifteen minutes ; he had long been respected in academic circles but was utterly taken aback by the response of the public at large.