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1596 C. Fitzgeffry Sir Francis Drake sig. G2^v The sorow-sobbing sighes of extasie.

1596 M. Drayton Mortimeriados sig. S4 She..curs'd her sorrow-seeing eye.

1601 J. Weever Mirror of Martyrs sig. D4^v In a sorrow-sighing extasie.

1627 M. Drayton Battaile Agincourt 32 Sorrow-ceasing sleepe..Vpon his Eye-lids stealingly doth creepe.

1720 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad VI. xxiv. 981 So spoke the Fair, with Sorrow-streaming Eye.

1754 J. Fortescue Ess. 2nd Sacred Harmony in Ess. Moral & Misc. (ed. 2) I. 65 Then as rising from the Ground Was heard a Sorrow-breathing sound; The black-brow'd Arches whispering round.

1820 J. Clare Poems Rural Life 154 That sad sorrow-ripening name—a Man.

1825 D. L. Richardson Sonnets 97 Thy lay's sweet flow Of sorrow-breathing music.

1884 Memorial Addr. on Life & Char. Thomas H. Herndon (U.S. Congress) 45 Acres who had ever thus been acted upon, embracing all shades, grades, and conditions of society, stood in sorrow-breathing silence, and with eyes bedewed in tears around his bier.

1891 F. T. Palgrave in Grove 2 388 The soft security of sleep, The blessings of the night, These sorrow-streaming eyes in vain, In vain to rest invite.

1920 Sabbath Recorder 19 Jan. 67 This was a characteristic answer, showing the sorrow-sobbing heart of a great and true man.

1992 I. Banks Crow Road ix. 229 After all a chap could only cope with so much sorrow-saying in one day.