Intense sorrows

Usage examples of griefs.

Oh Portius, didst thou taste but half the griefs That wring my soul, thou couldst not talk thus coldly.

Thus news comes to Ulmo, even in the deeps, of all the needs and griefs of Arda, which otherwise would be hidden from Manw?

And in our hatred of the Power that wrought all this woe our griefs shall be lost.

Because of her labours and her sorrow, she should be released from Mandos, and go to Valimar, there to dwell until the world's end among the Valar, forgetting all griefs that her life had known.

There the Teleri befriended her, and they listened to her tales of Doriath and Gondolin and the griefs of Beleriand, and they were filled with pity and wonder.

Yet after the fall of Sauron their power was ever at work, and where they abode there mirth also dwelt and all things were unstained by the griefs of time.

Thus news comes to Ulmo, even in the deeps, of all the needs and griefs of Arda, which otherwise would be hidden from Manwë.

Philippe, deprived even of the society of d'Artagnan, who had loaded him with honors and delicate attentions,- had nothing more to look forward to than spectres and griefs in this world.

Eaves’s information be correct, it is very likely that this lady, in her high station, had to submit to many a private indignity, and to hide many secret griefs under a calm face.

To her son’s guardian, the good Major at Madras, she had not communicated any of her griefs and perplexities.

And, as in all griefs there is said to be some consolation, I may mention that poor Mary, when left at her friend’s departure in a hysterical condition, was placed under the medical treatment of the young fellow from the surgery, under whose care she rallied after a short period.

I have had so many griefs and wrongs, Joseph Sedley, I have been made to suffer so cruelly, that I am almost made mad sometimes.

Brussels, Waterloo, old, old times, griefs, pangs, remembrances, rushed back into Amelia’s gentle heart, and caused a cruel agitation there.

With her burdens and her griefs, and her insistence, from the start, that her child was to be random.

A power of earth, not of forest, not bound by the griefs and constraints of the Wood.