Philosopher that he is, the good man takes no offence, but generously promises to sow a bank of rue to commemorate her sorrow.

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Not to bury her sorrow, but to earn income.

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Two ancient palms had once grown in his own front garden, but four years ago Nava had insisted that they be cut down, because the swish of their fronds against the bedroom window kept her awake at night and filled her with sorrow.

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Costumed for most of the play in widow's black, her body taut, almost wired, hands stretched, her face blanched with sorrow, she lives every moment of this tragedy with an intensity rarely encountered in the theatre.

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Although the details of her case provoked much horror and sorrow in 1968, there was little of the media-stoked outrage that accompanied the case of Robert Thomson and John Venables, two children from Liverpool, who also killed a smaller child, James Bulger, in 1993.

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Immediately after her successful Court of Appeal hearing over her sacking, Ms Shoesmith said that the sorrow of Peter's death would "stay with me for the rest of my life".

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Her white lace scarf is an emblem of the nation's sorrow.

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Soon enough, a vast sorrow descends upon Cambara, as she remembers how she had taken a suitcase full of her dead son's clothes, and donated them to charity so they might be parceled out among Toronto's poor.

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