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Weeper

noun
1.
A person who weeps.  Synonym: crier.
2.
A hired mourner.






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"Weeper" Quotes from Famous Books



... indifference, laziness nor fatigue. She had never been heard to complain, to regret anything, to envy anyone. She would say: "Everyone has his share," with the conviction of a fatalist. She did not go to church, she had no use for priests, she hardly believed in God, calling all religious things "weeper's wares." ...
— Maupassant Original Short Stories (180), Complete • Guy de Maupassant

... todt!" (He's dead) says one of the men, beginning to cry. The others settle themselves again to sleep. The weeper goes to sleep as ...
— Under Fire - The Story of a Squad • Henri Barbusse

... much perplexed; then, with a brightening face, exclaimed in her cheerful, pleasant way, "Well, never mind, Flora, dear, I will get you my doll. Will not that do quite as well?"—"Oh! yes, I'd rather have the doll, Elsie," the little weeper answered eagerly, smiling through ...
— Elsie Dinsmore • Martha Finley

... The weeper whisked round with a face of wild beseeching. "O, my son, call me anything but that! Call me weak and credulous, too easily led and misled! Call me too poetical and confiding! I know I'm more lonely than I dare tell my own son! But ...
— John March, Southerner • George W. Cable

... he knew it was the cock that rebuked Peter; and he trembled and stood up. The Master had vanished. He, too, fell a-weeping bitterly. And again the cock crew; and he opened his eyes, and knew that he had dreamed. His mother stood by his bedside, comforting the weeper with kisses. And ...
— Adela Cathcart, Vol. 3 • George MacDonald

... shaker, squeamer, Blockhead, sluggard, dullard, dreamer, Shirker, shuffler, crawler, creeper, Sniffler, snuffler, wailer, weeper, Earthworm, maggot, tadpole, weevil! Set upon thy course of evil, Lest the King of Spectre-land Set on thee his ...
— The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan - The 14 Gilbert And Sullivan Plays • William Schwenk Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan

... said Amyas, clutching his hair, as he looked down upon the beautiful weeper. "What am I to do with her, over and above ...
— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 • Charles H. Sylvester



Words linked to "Weeper" :   mourner, unfortunate, lamenter, unfortunate person, sorrower, bawler, griever, blubberer, weep



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