1748 examples of moans in sentences

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 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.

And forthwith cries and moans arose from a dim corner of the vacant ground, while she herself began to wail and call distressfully.

She heard sounds of pitiful moans and sobbing from something crouched upon the broken steps.

age pitiless!" Pity-moving in a common epithet, and we find it afterwards in this play used by young Bruce "My tears, my prayers, my pity-moving moans.

The congregation, as hinted, is more "fashionable" than that at Wesley Chapel: it is more select, has more pride in it, sighs more gently, moans less audibly, turns up its eyes more delicately, hardly ever gets into a "religious spree," and is inclined to think that piety should be genteel as well as vital.

Where misery moans unpitied and unheard, Where sickness pines, where thirst and hunger burn, And poor misfortune feels the lash of vice? *

She listened and heard not only his moans, but also the abusive language of those around him.

Out of nothing the moor rises, and into nothing it ascends,a great dark phantom between earth and sky, boding rain and howling tempest, and perhaps fearful wreckfor the groundswell moans and thunders on the beach behind us, louder and louder every moment.

All the air was filled with moans and lamentations.

Help!" Mr. Grummit, changing the stick into his left hand, renewed the attack; Mrs. Grummit, whose voice was becoming exhausted, sought a temporary relief in moans.

Sitting beside the tortured girl that night, hearing the heart-breaking little moans which as sleep finally drew near replaced the sobs, Katie Jones wondered whether many of the things people so serenely took for granted were as absurdand perhaps as tragically absurdas Captain Prescott's complacent conclusion that the "Don't You Care" girls were girls who didn't care.

These could be disposed of either wholesale to city merchants, or by moans of stalls in the various markets, or we could undertake to retail them in connection with our Household Salvage Brigade.

Over the bones of dynasties, the hot wind wails and sobs and moans.

The little creature, whose moans Margaret had termed scolding, now was heard all over that floor; every breath a moan that tore my heart in pieces.

The sight was appalling and its moans heart-rending.

I lay racked with cruel torture, bitterly regretting my promise to George, listening to those moans till I was nearly wild.

2. "What may it be, the heavy sound That moans old Branksome's turrets round?" Idem, Lay, p. 21.

The noise of their chariot-wheels, mingling with the moans of the dying, and the cries of parents and relatives in search of their sons and their kindred, formed a scene that must have moved the coldest heart, and that never can be effaced from my memory!

I could hear the echoing noises without; above the moans and cries, nearer at hand, and even drowning the deep roar of the guns, sounded the sturdy Northern cheers.

Groans, not likely to be emitted by her regular patient, had startled her, and she had found the floor occupied by the huge figure of a young Goth, his face and hair covered with blood from a deep wound on his head, insensible, but his moans and the motion of his limbs betraying life.

The buzzing of the flies aforesaid, the occasional moans of the more feeble patients, the hurried breathing of a poor girl in the last stage of consumption were the only sounds to be heard, except for the quiet footsteps and gentle voice of Sister Louise.

This nut-shell was easily transported across the narrow slip of land that separates the bay from the ocean, and though the surf moans so hoarsely, it is easily passed by a steady and dexterous oarsman.

" There was still little sign of revival about the boy when he had been carried into the Parsonage, undressed and laid in the Doctor's own bed, only a few moans when he was handled, and on his thin, sharp features there was a piteous look of sadness entirely unlike his ordinary expression of malignant fun, and which went to the kind hearts of the Doctor and Mrs. Woodford.

All their desire was that he would remain at a distance, for during the long and weary watch they had to keep over the half-conscious lad, the sound of a voice or even a horse's tread from Oakwood occasioned moans and restlessness.

1748 examples of  moans  in sentences