The luxury of grief seems common to mankind all the world over, and the mourning of the Mohurrum finds its counterpart in the old lamentation for the slain Adonis, the emotional tale of Sohrab's death at the hand of his sire Rustom, and the long-drawn sorrow of the Christian Passion.

In the taut torment of those long-drawn minutes a sound of circumspect scratching was enough to bring Victor to his feet in one startled bound.

A frightful crya long-drawn scream of terror and of painrang through it as we entered.

"It's got round to the north," he added, and following his voice came a long-drawn whisper that rose from the whole island as the trees sent forth a sighing response.

"And yet" A long-drawn sigh prevented the conclusion of that sentence.

The real labour of creation will still lie before him; but he may face it with the hope of producing a live play, not a long-drawn rhetorical anachronism, whether of the rotund or of the spasmodic type.

The one is playing a long-drawn game, in which the loss of a trick or two need not prove fatal; the other has staked his all on a single rubber.

like everything else that dreadful night, fortune seemed to favor Betty, and with a long-drawn sigh she drew her companion across the threshold and instantly shot the bolt behind her.

At Vespers, while the clear, boyish voices intoned the long-drawn canticles, Jean would be gazing at some woman's face half seen in the dusk of the galleries where the pupils' mothers and sisters knelt during the office, their haughty air contradicting the humble attitude.

She stirred no limb; her long-drawn, equal breath Swelled out and ebbed away beneath her breast, In calm unbroken.

Is he not here?" At last he merely raised his head, To see the steamers passing by, Then sank again upon his bed, And heaved a long-drawn, plaintive sigh; For how could one explain That I would come again?

She had done the top shelves all round, and, changing the water in her pail, had started on the next lot and was scrubbing vigorously, when she heard a long-drawn, mournful howl from the other side of the river.

And the ship's siren, enraged at the delay, protested in one long-drawn-out, inarticulate shriek.

He was a large stern man, blond as corn, but with some red, too, in his hairy beard; and appalling was the significance of those eyes that prayed, and the long-drawn cavity of those saffron cheeks.

For a loaded horse the eight and a half miles of switchback must be a long-drawn-out agony in which the descent of the last hill into Lyme is worse than the terrible pull to its summit.

There was another long-drawn-out duel between Mr. HOUSTON and Sir LEO CHIOZZA MONEY on the subject of shipping freights.

" "Ah!" CHAPTER VII When the Judge had brought down the interrogation of the Countess to the production of the small glass bottle, he paused, and with a long-drawn "Ah!" of satisfaction, looked round at his colleagues.

A score of 6-inch guns spoke out at once with a ringing clamour which absolutely drowned all other sounds, and their great 100-pound shells came hurtling inland with a series of long-drawn shrieks.

At intervals had come a long-drawn scream, terrifying in its shrillness, from some woman struggling with Saint or savage.

For seconds it remained with them, for long-drawn-out, distorted seconds; then, interrupting, something happened.

The end of the long-drawn struggle may be stated in a few words.

" "And oh!" says he, "what leetle bird Is singing in yon high tree, So every shrill and long-drawn note Like bubbles breaks in me?" Says I, "It is the mavis That perches in the tree, And sings so shrill, and sings so sweet, When dawn comes up the sea.

Our new critics may tell you that the late poet, who wrote that long-drawn sigh of desire for the Law which is bodied in the One hundred and nineteenth Psalm, was thinking of the "Thorah"the ritual law of the temple and the counsels of the priests.

Claret cup has washed the dust from our throats; cold lamb and mayonnaise have restored the force of body and equanimity of mind which the exhausted air and long-drawn Gregorian chants of Tempest Church destroyed.

he says, with a long-drawn sigh of relief; his eyes wandering round the room, and taking in all the familiar objects; "there is no mistake about it!