" Here both young ladies trembled very much, and said they never, never would have believed it of each other; and were only reconciled when FLORA sobbed that she was a poor unmarried orphan, and Miss PENDRAGON moaned piteously that an unwedded Southern girl without money had better go away somewhere in the desert, with her crushed brother, and die at once for their down-trodden section.

Thus, as night fell, the valley of Brand lay deserted quite, and no sound brake the pervading quiet save the wind that moaned feebly through those dark and solitary woods wherein Death lay hid, so very silentso very patient, but Death in grim and awful shape.

She lowered the gas, and in the gloom gazed for a few seconds at the vague, huddled, sheeted, faintly moaning figure on the bed; the untidy grey hair against the pillow struck her as intolerably pathetic.

In the meantime on her face lay old Hagar, moaning bitterly.

Morning sought Her eastern watch-tower, and her hair unbound, Wet with the tears which should adorn the ground, 5 Dimmed the aerial eyes that kindle day; Afar the melancholy Thunder moaned, Pale Ocean in unquiet slumber lay, And the wild Winds flew round, sobbing in their dismay.

He moaned miserably for a little, and then was silent.

He lay for a time suffering great pain, and moaning incessantly, until, at length, an officer came into the apartment and told him that the story which he had heard of Cleopatra's death was not true; that she was still alive, shut up in her monument, and that she desired to see him there.

Did they moan gravely to disclaim the holding of their kin; as an article of property?

The congregation, as hinted, is more "fashionable" than that at Wesley Chapel: it is more select, has more pride in it, sighs more gently, moans less audibly, turns up its eyes more delicately, hardly ever gets into a "religious spree," and is inclined to think that piety should be genteel as well as vital.

In his impotent weakness he moaned aloud.

He started up in bed, clutching at the coverings in an attempt, to save himself from apparent disaster, trembling from head to foot, moaning hoarsely in his fright.

She moaned, as she moaned continually when awake.

The wind, too, was rising, and I heard the trees moaning overhead and the waves breaking with increasing clamour on the shore.

I'll journey over the Desert far To seek my love the fairest of maidens; The camels moan loudly to carry me thither, Gainly are they, and fleeter than the swift-legged ostrich.

Then as she thought of white-haired Hagar Warren, she raised her hand to curse her, but the words died on her lips, for Hagar's deed had brought to her much joy; and now, as she remembered the bounding step, the merry laugh, the sunny face, and loving words which had made her later years so happy, she involuntarily stretched out her arms in empty air, moaning sadly: "I want her here.

A cold wind swept From out the gates of morning, moaning loud, As swift they hastened forth.

The Lady Agathar still smiles, and fills The moment with all pleasure and delight, No shadow of her sorrow or her pain Shall fall upon her Christalan to-day, But deep within her heart she maketh moan, "My Christalan goes forth to-morrow morn.

Meantime the wind was constantly moaning around it; and in the moaning was a sound of human sighs and tears.

It is thoroughly exposed, the winds always moaning mournfully around the buildings....

Outside, in the gardens, the dog moaned, strangely.

Beneath the bare night-stars I lie; Cold winds are moaning past: Alas!

And the wild birds that flit with mournful cry, And sadder winds, and voices of the sea That moans perpetually.

One poor boy moaned pitiably as they carried him away on a stretcher.

"Stay where you are!" The man who struggled towards the door flattened himself against the floor, moaning pitifully.

Ah, let me have my child," she moaned, heart-rendingly.