The stars began to glow white and metallic, and from far in the North there came faintly a crisping moaning sound, like steel sleigh-runners running over frosty snowthe mysterious monotone of the Northern Lights.

At this time he heard a moaning noise.

For the first time she saw her father's face in the lightand outside, Kazan heard the terrible moaning cry that broke from her lips.

" 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.

] Then rose the King and moved his host by night, And ever push'd Sir Modred, league by league, Back to the sunset bound of Lyonnesse A land of old upheaven from the abyss By fire, to sink into the abyss again; Where fragments of forgotten peoples dwelt, And the long mountains ended in a coast Of ever-shifting sand, and far away The phantom circle of a moaning sea.

The moaning chasm.

" A moaning voice was heard faintly in the distance.

" Scarcely were the words out of his mouth when there came again the moaning howl from the top of the ridge.

A moaning creak was followed by the low rumbling of a rope, as it rubbed on some hard or distended substance; and then succeeded the heavy flap of canvas, that, yielding first to a powerful impulse, was suddenly checked.

"If Marion won't go" He clenched his hands with a moaning curse and sprang to his feet, again pacing back and forth through the gloomy dungeon.

"No guides there are but the North star, And the moaning forest tossing wild arms before, The maiden murmurs, 'O sweet were yon bells afar, And hark!

We moved slowly forward, toward the sound of the fierce moaning grunts which were varied at times by a castanet chattering of the tusks.

Oh my lover, safely folded In the shadow of the grave, While about my low-roofed dwelling Moaning gusts of winter rave.

Marie had crumpled down in a moaning heap at Joanne's feet, and sat swaying with her face in her hands.

They were divinely recompensed when they saw the cold sweats disappear, the moaning lips become stilled, the deathlike faces recover animation.

It was a strange, windy night, touched with the first bleakness of winter, tinged with the moaning melancholy of the tossing oak-trees, and with streaks of faint reflected city lights in the far heavens.

But a moaning murmur, and Cranstoun's movement at once summoned them both to the bedside.

For she was superstitious beyond all things; and at that moment it happened that she could hear the moaning note of dovesa sound which she believed always brought her bad luck.

A tawny streak followed, and then, in a patch of moonlight, Satan saw the yellow cur with his teeth fastened in the throat of his moaning playmate.

There was at this time an ominous lull in the moaning pound of shrapnel.

But Mr. Dunborough's arm and the whirling whip kept all at a distance; nor was it until a tender-hearted housemaid ran in at risk of her beauty, and clutched his wrist and hung on it, that he tossed the whip away, and allowed Mr. Thomasson to drop, a limp moaning rag on the floor.

" Marian sat listening to her moaning respiration for nearly half an hour.

I heard his movements, and a slight moaning sigh, and he called me.

A dark night, and a nasty moaning sort of a wind.

But before they had reached their houses, bombs had commenced to fly into the town, and here and there mortar-shells were heard whizzing through the air; with the cries of the flying and the wounded, and the screams of the dying, was now heard the moaning toll of the alarm-bell, telling that to the terrors of the siege were added those of the elements.