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weeper [ˈwiːpə] n
1. a person who weeps, esp a hired mourner 2. (Clothing & Fashion) something worn as a sign of mourning 3. (Miscellaneous Technologies / Building) a hole through a wall, to allow water to drain away ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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To you, Cora, I will urge no words of idle encouragement; your own fortitude and undisturbed reason will teach you all that may become your sex; but cannot we dry the tears of that trembling weeper on your bosom? Alec, taking the weeper on his knee and administering consolation in the shape of kisses and nuts. Glegg, in her gloomier moments, had forebodings that, like other husbands of whom she had heard, he might cherish the mean project of heightening her grief at his death by leaving her poorly off, in which case she was firmly resolved that she would have scarcely any weeper on her bonnet, and would cry no more than if he had been a second husband. |
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