1693 examples of wail in sentences

I was on the highest tier, and their voices reached me only as an indistinct wail, like the notes of a distant Aeolian harp; but the joyous sun and sky and songs, were darkened and dulled by their presence.

If appointments at college decided your fate forever, you might possibly groan and wail.

It was the moment when voices soften, and every heart, overpowered with yearning, is impelled to tell of grief and disillusion; and every moment the wail of the fiddles grew more unbearable, tearing the heart to its very depths.

The tune is at best but a sweet wail, and there was a misgiving of the heart which imparted the thrilling effect of a gipsy's farewell

" "Oh, you trifle with my feelings," she cried, with a kind of wail.

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.

The wail was terrific.

" Then growing calmer, Parsifal spake on, As if an echo of the wail of God Over the world's sad suffering and sin: "I seem to see the blessèd Holy Cup

upon the Earth And in the heavens, the signs of death are hung; For o'er the Earth's brown breast stalks pale decay, And 'mong the lowering clouds the wild winds wail, And, sighing sadly, chant the solemn dirge O'er summer's fairest flowers, all faded now.

Her voice had a weak and hollow sound, like the wail of a child.

" There was something inexpressibly touching in the low cry, like the wail of a child at its own powerlessness.

But in that wail I saw the promise of a future victory, and I would not lose its fruits.

The unimaginable tortures and indecencies inflicted on brave men and good women, are something for which the Christian supporters and excusers of the Sioux must yet account at the bar where sentimental sympathy with criminals is itself a crime; and where the wail of tortured infants will not be hushed by reckoning of bad beef and a deficiency in beans.

SECTION XXII Vaisampayana said, "Then all the relatives of Kichaka, arriving at that place, beheld him there and began to wail aloud, surrounding him on all sides.

And the warriors of the Bharatas headed by Bhishma, with their horses, elephants, and cars, pierced by Kiritin and rendered invisible by means of his shafts, their ranks also scattered and broken, began to wail aloud in grief.

It seemed to me a wail of something unearthlyso wildso strangeso unaccountable.

Then one by one they began gradually to drop off, the unearthly tumult grew momentarily fainter and fainter, until at last it ended as it began, in one long, inexpressibly melancholy wail, and all was still.

Every moment she emitted a doleful wail.

As we stood gazing at her, and before we had time to speak to her, she seemed to be seized by an upheaving spasm, the influence of which was so great that she actually rose in the air, and as she did so her wail intensified itself into a shriek, and as she came down again with a sudden thump all the breath in her body seemed to be bounced out in a gasp of woe.

" She made no answer, but again she rose, again she gave vent to a wild wail, and again she came down with a thump.

A maddening wail went up, and for a moment she tottered on the apex of an elevation like a wooden idol upheaved by an earthquake.

" "Poor woman!" exclaimed Captain Sybil, sympathetically; "I suppose it seemed as if the wail of her daughter was blending with the tones of the instrument.

A gleam of grateful recognition passed over the drawn features of Tom, as the wail of his friend fell on his ear.

may Time with happy haste Bring wail and triumph to a waste, And war be done; The battle flag-staff fall athwart The curs'd ravine, and wither; naught Be left of trench or gun; The bastion, let it ebb away, Washed with the river bed; and Day In vain seek Donelson.

Kororáreka echoed the wail.

1693 examples of  wail  in sentences