84 adjectives to describe wails

But Lippo broke into a loud wail.

In the long melancholy wail of Ovid's "Tristia;" in the bitter and heart-rending complaints of Cicero's "Epistles," we may see something of that intense absorption in the life of Rome which to most of her eminent citizens made a permanent separation from the city and its interests a thought almost as terrible as death itself.

It was an ineffective little wail straight from the heart.

" A little moaning wind rose up suddenly in the middle of the dark night, and carried a faint wail, like the voice of some one lost, to the windows of the great house.

From below, rose a shrill wail; and the door ceased its groaning.

His mother, sitting up in bed, wrapped his swaddling clothes around him with her deft, nimble hands, jesting the while and answering each of his plaintive wails.

" The pibroch strains still continued, rising into a mournful wail, then sinking info the soft cries of the whip-poor-will.

Sad is the vague and tender dream Of dead love's lingering kisses, To crushed hearts haloed by the gleam Of unreturning blisses; Deep mourns the soul in anguished pride For the pitiless death that won them, But the saddest wail is for lips that died With the virgin dew upon them.

Old Mrs. Scritcher read with difficulty, "A boy in a boatover he goes;" and burst out in a piteous wail, "Oh, my poor little Ephraim!

If ever any music was invented for the express purpose of making mourners as distracted as any external thing can make them, it is the bitter, hopeless, unrestrained wail of this tune.

I've" Just at this moment, a prolonged, heart-rending wail trembled upon the stillness of the evening air: so piercing, yet so plaintive, was it, that it sent a shudder through my frame I have not forgotton to this day.

an infant's feeble wail Comes from yon narrow gate-way!

The features were distorted; the skin, clinging tightly to the bones, had a greenish tint, which was made the more horrible by the whiteness of the pillows on which the old man rested; drawn with pain, the mouth, gaping and toothless, gave breath to sighs which the howling of the tempest took up and drew out into a dismal wail.

From some point in the wintry wilderness came a dismal, resounding wail, apparently a mile distant.

"Better not talk," admonished Andy, when Will manifested a disposition to continue his doleful wails about his terrible loss.

There is an agonized wail....

While thus one spoke, the other spirit mourn'd With wail so woful, that at his remorse I felt as though I should have died.

The voice of the gale as it howled through the rigging, mingled with the creaking of timbers, and the roar of waters as they struck the vessel, was an awful wail, as it appeared to me, over bodies devoted to almost instant death.

Somewhere in the middle of it a hideous whiffling wail came down the sky: Trrou... trrou... trou!and then a crash!

If ever any music was invented for the express purpose of making mourners as distracted as any external thing can make them, it is the bitter, hopeless, unrestrained wail of this tune.

The monotonous wail of the instruments, the pungency of the incense, the subdued light, the humid breath of the roses carried the thoughts of Mr. Tutt far away.

Ours were lively, happy, and full of frolic and fun; theirs were slow, sad wails, which can only come from the heart of a long troubled people.

For the next day or two Antony could not get it out of his ears, and often, like a sweet wail through the wood, he seemed to hear the word "Resurgam.

Then with a thin wail, "He's killing her!"

The sailor closed his eyes, tilted back his head, twisted his face to a hideous grimace, and then opening his shapeless mouth emitted a tremendous wail which took shape in the following words: "Oh, don't you remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt, Sweet Alice, with hair like the sunshine" "Shut up!" roared Lawlor.

84 adjectives to describe  wails