Crossword-Solution: WAILERS 7 letters, 8 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

The weak wail and the weak succumb; the strong persist--and a world of wailers and weaklings calls them hard, insensible, coarse.

Put yourself under my conduct, and not fate itself shall prevent your wearing a Duchess’s coronet.” “A coronet of thistle-down, entwined with thistle-leaves,” said Zarah.--“I know not a slighter thing than your Buckingham! I saw him at your request--saw him when, as a man, he should have shown himself generous and noble--I stood the proof at your desire, for I laugh at those dangers from which the poor blushing wailers of my sex shrink and withdraw themselves.

The distracted gaze had gone from her eyes, and she listened without a tremor to the voices of the wailers behind.

But never doleful dream again Shall break his happy slumber when "He giveth his beloved, sleep." O earth, so full of dreary noises! O men, with wailing in your voices! O delve'd gold, the wailers heap! O strife, O curse, that o'er it fall! God strikes a silence through you all, And "giveth his beloved, sleep." His dews drop mutely on the hill; His cloud above it saileth still, Though on its slope men sow and reap.

Wailers sit by the corpse, fanning it to keep away flies, or making an occasional offering of food; while the friends gather to talk of the virtues of the deceased, to console the family, and to partake of the food and drink which has been provided for the gathering.