Do we say wail or whale

wail 554 occurrences

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.

whale 1098 occurrences

They included a set of gardening tools, several hammocks, croquet and tennis sets, and a remarkable collection of fishing tackle, which the sporting-goods man had declared fitted to catch anything that swam, from a whale to a minnow.

The human brain is absolutely heavier than that of any other animal, except the whale and elephant.

But the bo'sun, who was a very courageous man, and calm withal, walked over to the closed window, and saw to it that the battens were secure; for he had knowledge sufficient to be sure, if this were so, that no creature with strength less than that of a whale could break it down, and in such case its bulk would assure us from being molested.

Now, as she scudded through the dark waters of Behring Sea, Dave, standing in the conning-tower, thought how much she must resemble a whale.

Now, in peace times, in this feeding ground of the greatest of all prey, the tables might be turned, the submarine taken for whale.

Enough to have a whale of a good time on, or buy a farm.

The Air-Pump, the Barometer, the Quadrant, and the like Inventions were thrown out to those busie Spirits, as Tubs and Barrels are to a Whale, that he may let the Ship sail on without Disturbance, while he diverts himself with those innocent Amusements.

The Mantua has no Leads in the Sleeves, and I hope we are not lighter than the French Ladies, so as to want that kind of Ballast; the Petticoat has no Whale-bone; but fits with an Air altogether galant and degagé: the Coiffeure is inexpressibly pretty, and in short, the whole Dress has a thousand Beauties in it, which I would not have as yet made too publick.

Sperm-Whale Fishing.

For as Jonas was three days and nights in the whale's belly, so shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth."

What a pity that such an amiable fellow should have got into such a scrape!" Instead of the dear lock, Popanilla finds a chest saved from the wreck, and filled with "Useful Knowledge Tracts," books on "the Hamiltonian system," &c. which our adventurer, like Faustus and his bible, turns to bad account; he falls asleep, is swallowed by a whale, and spouted forth again.

" "I think we shall require another line out, Mr. Saunders," remarked the captain, as the gale freshened, and the two hawsers were drawn straight and rigid like bars of iron; "send ashore and make a whale-line fast immediately.

Half a minute more and "twang, twang!" came another report, and the whale-line was gone.

"An' it's hot, too, it is," he continued, applying his kerchief again to his pate "If it warn't for the ice we stand on, we'd be melted down, I do belave, like bits o' whale blubber.

Freeman's whale.

Moby Dick; or, The whale.

PRESS OF THE WOOLLY WHALE.

Press of the Woolly Whale (A); 3Dec63; R328455. PRESSEY, BENFIELD.

The baby whale, Sharp Ears.

The first story of the whale.

STACKPOLE, EDOUARD A. Mutiny at midnight; the adventures of Cyrus Hussey of Nantucket aboard the whale ship Globe in the South Pacific, from 1822 to 1826.

How the rabbit fooled the whale and the elephant, and other stories.

Freeman's whale.

How the rabbit fooled the whale and the elephant, and other stories.

Having nothing better to offer, we offer victuals; and this we do with something of that complacent, satisfied air with which some more northern tribes present their tidbits of whale and walrus.

Do we say   wail   or  whale