138 collocations for wail

He remembered having looked on a master who lay very quiet and very cold in the snow, and he had sat back on his haunches and wailed forth the death song; but these people on the walls looked alive, and yet seemed dead.

" "'Tis like the cries of women wailing o'er their dead, I have heard such sounds ere now; I would my belt bore fewer notches, master!"

What hand has cut our coppices, And thro' the trimm'd, the ruin'd, trees Lets wail a wind forlorn?

And Gray Wolf, setting back on her haunches, sent forth the response to that crya wailing triumphant note that told her hungry brethren there was feasting at the end of the trail.

" "O Mama," wailed Mathilde, between admiration and complaint, "you hear everything!"

"It's so confoundedly dark" "Oh, won't you please come down?" wailed Billie's voice from the spooky depths of the attic.

Each little pimple had a tear in it, To wail the fault its rising did commit: 60 Which, rebel-like, with its own lord at strife, Thus made an insurrection 'gainst his life.

"Don't say that!" wailed Mr. Tarbill.

What Wordsworth saw was seen nineteen hundred years ago in the Syrian market-place, where the children complained of their unresponsive companions: "We have piped the glad chaunt of the marriage, but ye have not danced, we have wailed our lamentation, but ye have not joined our mourning procession.

Enough is wept, Poppaea, for thy death, Enough is bled: so many teares of others Wailing their losses have wipt mine away.

" "I can't see it that way, John," wailed the poor woman.

" "If you do I'll simply give up," wailed Grace.

" "I never done for him, and that gent knows it," wailed Petrak, as Harris put his hand on his shoulder to take him away.

"Aw, no!" wailed Kathleen.

"Oh, I don't know," wailed the child, "people and places.

"I cannot fight him," wailed Calli.

"Oh, why are they sending Curt's regiment across the river?" wailed Celia, following to the window.

His voice wailed out the mournful chant, which was weird and solemn and almost made Ted shiver.

But, oh!" she wailed, "how in the world am I ever going to raise that hundred dollars?" CHAPTER III CHET

To one, an extremely pretty, plaintive, and original air, there was but one line, which was repeated with a sort of wailing chorus

" The rebeck wailed a long complaint before he added: "If I didn't like you fairly wellThe point isGood old Cynthia!

With wreaths of green leaves on their heads, friends sat round the body wailing the long-drawn cry, Aué!

We're happy all the dayha, ha!" wailed Dan Dalzell.

The best pleasure thou wilt know May be to brood upon thy woe: Wailing happy days gone by, When fancied pleasures mock'd thine eye: Days that never shall return.

I'm right blind in the eyes!" wailed Deanie.

138 collocations for  wail