The villagers, suffering a meager harvest and the many years of war, quickly hid what little they had to eat and met the three at the village square, wringing their hands and bemoaning the lack of anything to eat.
Anyone bemoaning the loss of the True Meaning of Christmas probably shouldn't celebrate in China.
It's the reason the initial arrival of Netflix executives in France was met with a letter from producers bemoaning the "implosion of our cultural model.
When we believed him to be really gone we started up bemoaning our horrible fate, until the hall echoed with our despairing cries.