"At your old tricks again," groaned the hired man.

ough!" groaned the old woman; "he wants to go, away from the nest where he was warmed, and nursed, and brought up.

They had a vague and confused recollection of seeing the boys gathered around something in the bushes at the brook that groaned a little and made queer sputtering noises.

he groaned, "O my mother!"

A heavy, groaning sound had been instantly succeeded by such a plunge into the water, as might be imagined to succeed the fall of a fragment from another planet.

" "This building is destined to be my prison, and that treacherous woman my gaoler," groaned Leonard, sinking backwards.

The sardar thus addressed him: "Babuji, do you know us?" "How can I know you?" groaned their victim.

and so we have witches too?" groaned the Doctor.

Silas Winch groaned agin, and Bill, as the shock 'ad made a'most sober, trembled all over.

"Hey!" cries Ralph, sending out a cloud of smoke, "what are you groaning about, my dear fellow?

"I tole yer so, Dab," groaned poor Dick.

" "Guess you're right," groaned Barney.

Daily orders would come from Captain Wells to General Flitter Bill Richmond to send up more rations, and Bill groaned afresh when a man from Callahan told how the captain's family was sprucing up on meal and flour and bacon from the captain's camp.

With a cry of madness he flung himself on the harsh pine pallet, groaning his heart out in bitter anguish and maledictions.

" "Hang it," groaned Pennington, "I wish I could think, but my head aches as though it would split and my tooth is putting up more trouble than I ever knew there was in the world.

Mon Dieu!" groaned the count.

"Or in ivory chopsticks, oolong tea, imitation jade, litchi nuts and preserved leeches!" groaned Tutt.

"We can't hope to keep it quiet, Danny boy," groaned Dave when the two chums met the next morning.

" "No breakfast, no lunch," groaned Dawson.

" "My Lord!" groaned the horrified judge.

" "How the devOf course I didn't know," groaned Chase.

"God!" groaned Shorty, and then called loudly, as if the strength of his voice might recall the other, "Calamity!"

I hate it," groaned the boy.

At about one a.m. the train started, and we creaked and groaned our way out of Boulogne.

Yes, thou art a man and brother, Though thou long hast groaned a slave, Bound with cruel cords and tether From the cradle to the grave!