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Bewailing

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be·wail  (b-wl)
tr.v. be·wailed, be·wail·ing, be·wails
1. To cry over; lament: bewail the dead.
2. To express sorrow or unhappiness over: "bewailing the possible effects of double-digit unemployment" Washington Post.
[Middle English biwailen : bi-, be- + wailen; see wail.]
be·wailer n.
be·wailment n.
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A HEAVY Operator overtaken by a Reverse of Fortune was bewailing his sudden fall from affluence to indigence.
Fantastic-Fables by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
She had a habit of confiding her conquests to less fortunate girls and bewailing the incessant havoc and damage she was doing; a damage she avowed herself as innocent of, in intention, as any new-born lamb.
Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm by Wiggin, Kate Douglas View in context
The host furnished him with what he required, and Sancho brought it to Don Quixote, who, with his hand to his head, was bewailing the pain of the blow of the lamp, which had done him no more harm than raising a couple of rather large lumps, and what he fancied blood was only the sweat that flowed from him in his sufferings during the late storm.
Don Quixote by Cervantes, Miguel View in context
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