" Her tears had quieted now to little dry moans that came with regularity.

Presently, she heard the faint moans of Marianne, and called her by her name; the child answered that she was on her back, among stones and bushes, which held her fast, but that her hands were free, and that she saw the light, and then something green; she asked whether people would not come soon to take them out.

But Betty's bent on her intent; For her good neighbour, Susan Gale, Old Susan, she who dwells alone, Is sick, and makes a piteous moan, 20 As if her very life would fail.

During the whole time of the crucifixion our Lord never ceased praying, and repeating those passages in the Psalms which he was then accompanying, although from time to time a feeble moan caused by excess of suffering might be heard.

His voice rose and fell in eldritch screams and hollow moans.

Only an occasional quivering moan escaped his torn lips as the hours slowly passed by.

There were dismal moans among soldiers who were in their last agonies between the cannon wheels.

The giant utter'd fearful moan.

She heard sounds of pitiful moans and sobbing from something crouched upon the broken steps.

Sweet moans, dovelike sighs, Chase not slumber from thy eyes.

At night the distant moan of the Niagara falls was audible, and this, together with what I had heard and read, made me very anxious to visit the spot.

The dog gave a convulsive thrill and uttered a plaintive moan.

She seemed to me to live in heaven, and heaven was in her and about her and all around her." "Only a tender love, Stilling the restless moan, Soothing the sufferer, Cheering the lone.

O thou great god, who from thy highest throne Hast stooped down, and felt the force of love, Bend gentle ears unto the woful moan Of me poor wretch, to grant that I require!

From the plane trees came the morning carols of the birds, while far away in the sleeping country a locomotive whistled with a prolonged moan.

At the last shot she dropped with an angry moan.

sad chime, I will not weep What is there within thy tone, That should wring my heart alone, Rive it with this endless moan? Peace!

For the most part she lay in a semi-conscious state, heeding nothing, and only moaning now and again, a sad little moan, like an injured bird.

Men, women and children, with a wild wail, threw themselves flat on their stomachs, uttering the most melancholy moans that ever came from human lips.

From bush to bush, by devious trails, He drags himself from hill to hill, And, as his old strength slowly fails, Drinks long at many a mountain rill, Until he gains, with stifled moan, A height, to hated man unknown, Where he may die, at least alone.

How in those features aim to trace my own, Cast in a softer mould my being see; Recall the voice that sooth'd my helpless moan, The thoughts that sprang for scarcely aught save me; That shaped and formed me; gave me to the day, Bade in her breast absorbing love arise; O'er me a ceaseless tender care display, For weak all else to thee maternal ties!

She trembled slightly; and the same sad, hopeless moan which I had heard at midnight in the Illinois shanty came from her lips.

Will heavens still smile at Sophos' miseries, And give no end to my incessant moans?

34. All stood aloof, and at his partial moan Smiled through their tears; well knew that gentle band Who in another's fate now wept his own; As in the accents of an unknown land He sang new sorrow; sad Urania scanned 5 The Stranger's mien, and murmured 'Who art thou?'

Snatch'd from her shoulder with despairing moan, She clasps them at that dim-seen roofless stone.