Do we say groan or grown

groan 1113 occurrences

Charlie's mother tried to look as stoical as possible, but the corners of her mouth would twitch, and there was a nervous trembling of her under-lip; but she commanded herself, and only when Charlie gave a slight groan of pain, stooped and kissed his forehead; and when she raised her head again, there was a tear resting on the face of her son that was not his own.

Then, at the best, pleasure and pain are mere oscillations; but the first movement is downwards, for we cry when we come into the world; and the last is also downwards, for we groan when we go out of it.

It is the old rhyme 'We scream when we're born, We groan when we're dying; And all that's between Is but laughing and crying.'

Where thoughts that are not used are cast, And whirlwind, and the earthquake groan In pity, there, there, am I A withered thoughtthat cannot die. LIGHT.

A horrible groan followed this murderous act, which was succeeded by a confused noise, and a solemn silence ensued!

His children were alarmed by the sudden riches of Vafer, but their complaints were heard by their father with impatience, as the result of a conspiracy against his quiet, and a design to condemn him, for their own advantage, to groan out his last hours in perplexity and drudgery.

To groan with poverty, when all about him was opulence, riot, and superfluity, and to find the favours which he had long been encouraged to hope, and had long endeavoured to deserve, squandered at last on nameless ignorance, was to thirst with water flowing before him, and to see the fruits, to which his hunger was hastening, scattered by the wind.

She heard him with death-like silence, checked the groan that was bursting from her agonized heart, and strove to assume a look of cheerfulness.

20 For his long absence Church and State did groan; Madness the pulpit, faction seized the throne: Experienced age in deep despair was lost, To see the rebel thrive, the loyal cross'd: Youth that with joys had unacquainted been, Envied gray hairs that once good days had seen: We thought our sires, not with their own content, Had, ere we came to age, our portion spent.

Have I for this so oft made Israel groan?

' Roy gave a groan.

The room they were in was so vast, and sometimes the negroes lay so thick on the floor, rolled in their blankets (you know, even in the summer they sleep under blankets), all snoring so loudly, she would never have heard a groan or a whimper any more than they did, if she had slept, too.

A groan went up,"They will finish what the crickets have left.

He spoke but littlewas full of thought, now praying, now walking about the room, next sitting in a crouching posturethen suddenly starting up and going to the door, turning his eyes toward heaven, as if looking for some celestial phenomenon, when he would return again, groan in spirit, and resume his seat.

He had been bedridden nearly all winter, but uncomplainingly, his wife and daughter-in-law caring for him, and it was not until the early part of May, when all the world was growing green, that he began to mend and at the same time groan at his confinement.

"A groan or a shriek is instantly understood, as a language extorted by distress, a language which no art can counterfeit, and which conveys a meaning that words are utterly inadequate to express.

"A groan or shriek speaks to the ear, as the language of distress, with far more thrilling effect than words.

I hear the King, our Master, groan in pain.

Something in the straw moved and gave a frightful groan.

But when he was lifted up, he stifled a groan and gave his old cheerful cry of "Ca y est!" 11 During the two days that followed the convent at Furnes was overcrowded with the wounded.

"Why do you lock yourselves in during full daylight, and groan and embrace each other?" They felt the blood flow to their faces, and answered nothing.

When I went out into the snow it seemed to me the groan of the gale was like the slow grind of millstones, one upon the other.

With a groan of disgust at the orator's imbecility, he went back, up the hill, to his own tent.

No groan betrayed him, but her arms went jealously around his body, and her searching fingers found the cut in the buckskin.

He did not groan, as at dawn, that there were no children to relieve him of labor.

grown 7900 occurrences

And the baby has grown so I did not know her, and her curls are more than half a yard long.

I was spending the winter in the family, and going to school, and between my uncle and me there had grown up an intimate and confidential friendship such as is rare between a man of sixty and a girl of fifteen.

It was not until years had passed that the master became the lover; we fancied, Uncle Jo and I, as we went reverently over the beautiful pages, that Esther had grown and developed more and more, until she was the teacher, the helper, the inspirer.

Beloved, that I have grown and developed so much in the last seven years is no proof that I can still keep on growing.

I have grown year by year, hour by hour, because hour by hour I have loved you more.

To-day acres upon acres of tea are grown in Cachar; and the inland steamers, which ply all through the rainy season up and down the wide-rolling stream of the river Barak, bring down for export millions of pounds of tea for the "cheering cup".

If you had seen our hero in all the strength and majesty of full-grown doghood, you would have experienced a vague sort of surprise had we told youas

And here the dog Crusoe was born; here he sprawled in the early morn of life; here he leaped, and yelped, and wagged his shaggy tail in the excessive glee of puppyhood; and from the wooden portals of this block-house he bounded forth to the chase in all the fire, and strength, and majesty of full-grown doghood.

It was heaps of fun to be grown up and traveling alone like that!

He'd grown a lot, too.

And now, since your father has been so kind and generous in giving you up to me so much of his time, II've grown ashamed; and I'm trying to make you forget what I saidabout your loving me more than him.

And when I exclaimed out and ran over to her, I found she was sitting beside an old trunk that was open; and across her lap was a perfectly lovely pale-blue satin dress all trimmed with silver lace that had grown black.

I can see now how gently and tactfully they helped me over the stones and stumbling-blocks that strew the pathway of every sixteen-year-old girl who thinks, because she has turned down her dresses and turned up her hair, that she is grown up, and can do and think and talk as she pleases.

She had grown rather white.

The cities had increased in number, grown in size, and greatly changed in appearance.

Suffering in the South.%The South raised all the cotton, nearly all the rice and tobacco, and one third of the Indian corn grown in our country, and depended on Europe and the North for manufactured goods.

A queer thing about this particular type of the irresistible man is that he nearly always has grown up in a small town and has only come to the city because his village got too small for his talents.

Nevertheless, when, in the sixteenth century, the European peoples began to extend their dominions beyond Europe, England had grown to differ profoundly from the Germanic countries of the mainland.

Cotton was grown, but only for home use.

This method of cultivation was, after all, much like that of the southern whites, and the "old fields," or abandoned plantations grown up with pines, were common in the colonies.

Pumpkins, melons, marsh-mallows, and sunflowers were often grown between the rows of corn.

The air had grown just cool and humid enough to make the warmth of one small brand on the hearth acceptable, and before this the fair widow settled herself to gaze beyond her tiny, slippered feet into its wavering flame, and think.

The night had grown much cooler.

One door looked into the dim front room; the window let in only a flood of moonlight over the top of a high house which was without openings on that side; the other door revealed a weed-grown back yard, and that invaluable protector, the cook's hound, lying fast asleep.

She was in poor plight to meet the all but icy gray morning; and, to make her misery still greater, she found, on dressing, that an accident had overtaken her, which she knew to be a trustworthy sign of love grown cold.

Do we say   groan   or  grown