It was a lamentable blunder,-it was a crime!"
"A Fearful Responsibility and Other Stories"
William D. Howells
His health, his work, his money-matters, his love-affairs, were all getting into a more and more lamentable condition, in which Mme.
"The Countess of Albany"
Violet Paget (AKA Vernon Lee)
No one who has not labored at the task of trying to commend the Church of the Prayer Book to the working class, as it is represented in our large manufacturing towns, can know how lamentable that failure is.
"A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer"
William Reed Huntington