"One whom I will into clamorous whining."

Gradually, I became aware of a faint, distant whining.

Beggars were seated at regular distances along the road, uttering the most dolorous whinings.

And then suddenly out of the utter quietness there came a soundthe scuttle of scampering feet and an eager whining at the door behind her.

Gradually, I became aware of a faint, distant whining.

Many who came in young were going out old; but the odd thing was that those worst off went out gameno whining, none of the ostentatious pathos of those broken on the wheel of a great city.

Of that admired world likewise are the lovers that Matthew Prior creates, who woo neither with stormy passion nor with mawkish whining, but in a courtly manner; lovers who deem an epigram a finer tribute than a sigh.

As he spoke the muffled whining changed suddenly to a series of tenor shrieks, and the India-rubber form of Sammy bounded into the room like an excited kangaroo.

The clergyman had been annoyed during the course of his sermon by the restlessness and occasional whining of a dog, which at last began to bark outright.

I wasn't enough of a hanger-on to sink into a state of perpetual whining protest, or to commit suicide.

In about a year the king went to hunt in the forest, and after a chase which lasted the whole day, had nearly run down the unfortunate Bisclaveret, when the persecuted animal rushed from the thicket, and running straight up to him, seized his stirrup with his fore-paw, began to lick his feet, and with the most piteous whinings to implore his protection.

Here one set up a plaintive whining and the other an angry growling, their outcries increasing as he came nearer.

Horace Walpole, and after him Byron, accused Sterne of having "preferred whining over a dead ass to relieving a living mother," and the former went so far as to declare "on indubitable authority" that Mrs. Sterne, "who kept a school (in Ireland), having run in debt on account of an extravagant daughter, would have rotted in a gaol if the parents of her scholars had not raised a subscription for her."

We wish a few more of the tourists who are picking their way over the continent, would illustrate their books of travels with such noble sentiments as are contained in these few linesinstead of the querulous whinings about cheap and dear living, the miseries of our climate, and a thousand other ills of the malade imaginaire.

The tail proving ineffectual in argument, Pizarro supplemented its eloquence by sharp admonitory yelps, tempered by a sharp crescendo whining, of which he seemed rather proud as an accomplishment.

What signifies thy tedious whining over thy departing relation?

He differs, indeed, from most modern sentimentalists, in having the most hearty contempt for useless whining.