From below, rose a shrill wail; and the door ceased its groaning.

He was moaning and groaning.

With a groaning and squeaking of rusty hinges, the heavy door swung inward, and the girls found themselves staring into a black well of hallway that seemed to have no windows anywhere.

Then the boys bent down and began extricating the groaning thing from the wreck of something.

To him went Roger to shake him into groaning wakefulness and to point with eager finger to Beltane.

Axe and spear, sword and pike and gisarm smote and thrust and swayed; stumbling feet spurned and trampled yielding forms that writhed, groaning, beneath the press; faces glared at faces haggard with the dawn, while to and fro, through swirling mist and acrid smoke, the battle rocked and swayed.

He lay along the floor, gasping, groaning, and the blood dripping from his breast.

Even after Arthur had lifted her into the sleigh, the man remained crouching where she had fallen, with his eyes roaming back and forth in a sightless stare from her to myself, muttering and groaning, and totally unheedful of Arthur's commands to mount the box and drive home.

He turned and ran on, dazzled; fell over some one who lay groaning; rose on hands and knees, groped in the dust, and suddenly fingered thin, rough cloth, warm and sopping.

"Or cruell gripe to gnaw my groaning hart.

Indeed the extremity of his grief was such that it served him a very good turn, for he was so entirely unmanned by it that for some time he could do nothing but weep, and fell into a chair with his head in his hands, and so kept weeping and groaning.

One had an arm blown away, and kept up a dreadful groaning.

"Well, to be short, the groaning chap was taken, and my man left.

The gang saw their champion fall, gave ground, and limped off, leaving three of their party groaning on the ground, beside as many Whitford men.

It was the spruce woods, bending their tops to the blast and groaning at the strain.

Then remembering what had befallen him, and his head beating as though it would split asunder, he shut his eyes again, contriving with great effort to keep himself from groaning aloud, and wondering as to what sort of pirates these could be, who would first knock a man in the head so terrible a blow as that which he had suffered, and then take such care to fetch him back to life again, and to make him easy and comfortable.

As he so crouched he presently became aware of the sound of many voices, dull and groaning, coming from within the edifice, and thennow and againthe clanking as of a multitude of chains.

These wretched beings, sighing and groaning most piteously, with a monotonous wailing of many voices, were chained by the wrist, two and two together, and as they passed by close to Dunburne, his nostrils were overpowered by a heavy and fetid odor that came partly from within the building, partly from the wretched creatures that passed him by.

In the middle of the night, the sea being quite calm, we unfortunately struck upon a halcyon's nest, of an immense size, being about sixty stadia in circumference; the halcyon was sitting upon it, and was herself not much less; as she flew off, she was very near oversetting our ship with the wind of her wings, and, as she went, made a most hideous groaning.

An instant later, with a groaning of old locks and a rasping of bars, the low door swung open, and the Prussians poured into the stone-flagged passage.

Stiffly, painfully, Sir Beverley struggled up from his chair, stood steadying himselfa figure tragic and forlornwith his hands against the wood of the window-frame, then with a groaning effort thrust up the sash.

The poor women of the quarter crowd there, chattering and groaning, to look for husbands, brothers and son's.

"Bill's" train was just going to move, already making groaning noises.

"It is a sad sight," says Low (75), "to see the Dyak girls, some but nine or ten years of age, carrying water up the mount in bamboos, their bodies bent nearly double, and groaning under the weight of their burden.

It seemed to issue as from a cavern; and with it came a low, groaning sound, as of a soul in torment.