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

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!

He wept on his first day in Lompoc prison, but ultimately found white-collar incarceration stimulating.

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.

Popular Christian legends recalls Saint Monica to have wept every night for her son, Saint Augustine.

That night, the two sisters wept bitterly in each other's arms.

Every night she wept bitter tears and grieved for all she was now parted from: worn rocks and turf under her feet instead of pavements, ‘ the night sounds of the river birds, flocks of sandpipers in flight, curlews and solitary gulls .’ ( 3 )

Popular tales say that Cortés wept under a tree the night of the massacre of his troops at the hands of the Aztecs.

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.

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.

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 embraced each other and wept together for quite a while.

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.

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.

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.

Ralph is sometimes perceived as partially being a literary tool to aid the audience's realisation of inner evil throughout the duration of the novel ; " Ralph wept for the end of innocence ..."

For example it was believed that the Nile River flooded every year because of the tears of sorrow which Isis wept for Osiris.

" I wept for 39 hours.

At a press conference announcing the procedure, his wife Patricia wept and pleaded for help, saying, " e're broke .... Jim has nothing but his name and his memories.

After he repented, he wept for 7, 000 years, his tears filling seven jars, which then quenched the fires of hell.

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.

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

Hel, the ruler of the realm of the same name, agreed that Baldr should go back to the living if all things in the world wept for him.

So the Æsir sent messengers all over the word, and all wept for him, but:

Thereupon Hel announced that Baldr would only be released if all things, dead and alive, wept for him.

Thinking he would die, Ecgberht wept in repentance as he recalled his past sins, and he prayed that God spare him long enough to allow him to atone for the ill deeds of his youth, and he also vowed to remain on perpetual pilgrimage from his homeland of Britain, reciting the Psalter daily and fasting frequently.

:" 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.

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.

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.

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

He wept when he saw the plight of the creatures he had created.

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

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.

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.

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.