He wept for his wife before the spirits, and asked if the ancestors' spirits would teach him how to stop the Jocopo.

The idea of weeping before breakfast seemed monstrous to me.

Even when the old man broke down and wept before him he could not be moved to change his mind.

The thought made me weep still harder; I might have sat and wept before that gate, perhaps, till dawn.

Like the blond boy who kissed his hands for it, wept before him: not a man.

The damane who had not been weeping before burst into tears.

Men embraced one another, weeping in awe before the gods.

Poonthanam went home and wept bitterly before the Lord.

He returned his gaze to the young man weeping before him.

Occasionally, some cows are claimed to be seen weeping before slaughter, and they are often released to temples nearby.