He was moaning a little.

"The first that died was sister Jane; In bed she moaning lay, Till God released her of her pain;

Poor Susan moans, poor Susan groans; "As sure as there's a moon in heaven," Cries Betty, "he'll be back again; They'll both be here'tis almost ten 145 Both will be here before eleven." Poor Susan moans, poor Susan groans; The clock gives warning for eleven; 'Tis on the stroke"He must be near," Quoth Betty, "and will soon be here, 150 As sure as there's a moon in heaven.

"Poor boy, what'll he do without his comfortable bed?" moaned his mother.

"What money?" "Allall my savings!" moaned his wife.

No other shape of man or beast in view, Dull grey the sky, and moaning low the wind.

It is stagnation, not life at all; indeed, I'd sooner be dead," moaned the poor discontented woman.

" Mike moaned a moan of righteous indignation.

" "Another feather," moaned Abdul.

Next to the dog there is no animal in which there is more variation of sound than in oxen: "Their lowing, though rough and rude, is music to the farmer's ear save one who moans the loss of her sportive young; with wandering eye and

By night they came and from my bed They stole my babe, and left behind A thing I hate, a thing I dread A changeling who is old and blind; He's moaning all the night and day For those who took my babe away.

Oh, yes; else he would have been in a hospital, with moaning men all about him.

After which, the ocean moaned, and slept again; the moon-beams playing across its treacherous bosom, sweetly and calm, as the rays are seen to quiver on a lake that is embedded in sheltering mountains.

"Not for him, Tom, for myself!" moaned Elsley.

All day the wind whistled through the grasses and moaned round the corners of the life-saving station; the gusts were cold, damp, and penetrating.

When Ishtar's eyes beheld it, all her grief Broke forth afresh, refusing all relief; She smote her breast in woe, and moaning cried, Nor the bright waters to his wound applied: "O Tammuz!

" "I shall not be at peace," moaned Catherine.

Every night, when winds are moaning round my chamber by the sea, Thine's the face that through the darkness latest looks with love at me;

"And all that noon and weary night she lay, Poor child, like death upon her prison stone, And none that came to her but crept away, Sickened at heart to see her lips so moan, Her eyes so dim within their sockets grey, Her tender cheeks so thin and ghastly grown; But when the next morn's light began to stir, She sent and prayed that I might be with her.

I'm coldso dreadfully cold," she moaned clinging to his arm.

The wind moaned heavily and thick black clouds swept up in an almost continuous procession from the western horizon, but they did not let a drop fall.

On the 30th, in the night, under the influence of excessive grief, he moaned out this complaint, that was hardly heard: "Oh, dear!

" "But not as much as I supposed," moaned Madam Conway.

" "Ah!" moaned Corinne, "when I tell myself to-morrow 'I shall see him no more,' the thought may kill me; happy am I if it does.

The were wolves mutter, the night hawks moan, The raven croaks from the Raven-stone; What care I for his boding groan, Riding the moorland to come to mine own?