She's always saying that she'll be glad when her time comes, and she doesn't want to sojourn any longer in this
vale of tears. But when she takes a sick spell there's a fuss!
Annes House of Dreams
She gives you the impression that life to her is indeed a
vale of tears, and that a smile, never to speak of a laugh, is a frivolity truly reprehensible.
Anne of The Island
"Very likely," said Sancho; "for her beauty bewildered me as much as her ugliness did your worship; but let us leave it all to God, who alone knows what is to happen in this
vale of tears, in this evil world of ours, where there is hardly a thing to be found without some mixture of wickedness, roguery, and rascality.
Don Quixote
She represented to her in lively colours, that if she (Mrs V.) had not, in steering her course through this
vale of tears, been supported by a strong principle of duty which alone upheld and prevented her from drooping, she must have been in her grave many years ago; in which case she desired to know what would have become of that errant spirit (meaning the locksmith), of whose eye she was the very apple, and in whose path she was, as it were, a shining light and guiding star?
Barnaby Rudge A Tale Of The Riots Of Eighty
I excused myself and dropped to the rear of the procession, sad at heart, willing to go hence from this troubled life, this
vale of tears, this brief day of broken rest, of cloud and storm, of weary struggle and monotonous defeat; and yet shrinking from the change, as remembering how long eternity is, and how many have wended thither who know that anecdote.
Connecticut Yankee
Who calls it a
vale of tears? Methinks it is but the darkness in our minds that bringeth gloom to the world.
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
It always happens so in this
vale of tears, there is an inevitability about such things which we can only wonder at, deplore, and bear as we best can.
Little Women
Dear Sir,--Pursuant of our policy, with which we flatter ourselves you are already well versed, we beg to state that we shall give a passport from this
Vale of Tears to Inspector Bying, with whom, because of our attentions, you have become so well acquainted.
Moon Face and Other Stories
A "
vale of tears" refers to the tribulations of life that Christian doctrine says are left behind only when one leaves the world and enters heaven.
Writing this column through a veil of tears Veil: Veil, vale, valley - the difference
Second, at the DMV the employees are anything but courteous and eager to please; on the contrary, they act as if working at the DMV is simply their unfortunate destiny in this
vale of tears, and the dreary weight of their jobs is visibly almost more than they can bear.
Feedback and Correction in Government and the Market
Virgin of Juquila, "to thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this
vale of tears."
I won't pray the rosary the same way again: SOUL SEEING
The more the IOM engages inside Libya, the more we learn that it is a
vale of tears for many migrants.
Human trafficking crimes in Libya raise alarm at UN Security Council
Amid EastEnders'
vale of tears psycho kid Bobby gets scarier and he shoves his stepmum down the stairs.
It's a slippery soap
I have returned, after leaving my mother to perish on the mountain, to this
vale of tears where we are, to confront the unendurable pain of losing her.
HIGH BLOOD - 'Obasute'
Like theirs, her style is deceptively simple and direct, and the
vale of tears in which some of her characters reside is never so deep that a rich chuckle at a foolish person's foolishness cannot be heard.''
J. California Cooper, author and playwright, dies at 82