A low and interrupted moan was the voice of her heart's anguish, and it did not fail to move the sympathies of many who mistook their involuntary virtue for a sin.

The long moan of the wind was the only sound to be heard.

The day after the contest, or even that same night at Delmonico's and the clubs, these men would moan for poor Bob; Barry Conant's moan would be the loudest of them all, and, what is more, it would be sincere.

At length a little moan was sign of life, and Kellyan said, "Here, let me go in to him.

And all the time" The moaning became an anguish of distress, unable to weep, like terrible pain, as the poor young thing writhed in Rosamond's arms.

"The moanings and groanings, as you call them, were only sounds made by the wind, I daresay.

The soul's inarticulate moanings are the affections yearning for the Infinite, but having no one to tell them what it is that ails them.