1693 examples of wails in sentences

hark, what myriads bid you rise; Three millions of our race in madness Break out in wails, in bitter cries, Break out in wails, in bitter cries, Must men whose hearts now bleed with anguish, Yes, trembling slaves in freedom's land, Endure the lash, nor raise a hand?

hark, what myriads bid you rise; Three millions of our race in madness Break out in wails, in bitter cries, Break out in wails, in bitter cries, Must men whose hearts now bleed with anguish, Yes, trembling slaves in freedom's land, Endure the lash, nor raise a hand?

From the guard-tent a trumpet wails, "Lights out.

Sleepless and restless, I alone, In the dusk and damp of these wails of stone, Wander and weep in my remorse!

Into his room, through the thin wall, came the catch of numberless sobs, the long-drawn open wails, and the spasms of sobbing.

The wails of the unfortunate cat mingle with the short snapping barks of the pack, or a howl of anguish as puss inflicts a caress on the face of some too careless or reckless dog.

Her sword has left her keeping, Her prows forget the tide, And the Adriatic, weeping, Wails round his mourning bride.'

It is enough to put down the wails which he wrote long afterwards when visibly approaching the close of all human emotions and interests: "This is the day on which, in 1752, dear Letty died.

For with the words which I read were all mixed up visions of crawling hearses, wails, and lugubrious crapes, and piercing shrieks of madness in strange earthy vaults, and all the mournfulness of the black Vale of Death, and the tragedy of corruption.

Above all, he weeps and wails over the malignity of Reviewers, who have persecuted him almost from his very cradle, and seem resolved to bark him into the grave.

Jarley, she reasoned, had a perfect right to spoil Jack if he pleased, but he had no right to permit Jack to do bodily injury to Tommy; and as Tommy was making the house echo and re-echo with his wails, she deemed it her duty to take a hand.

This consists in uttering the most heartrending, almost hideous wails and lamentations, in which all join until exhausted.

I have seen few things in life so touching as the spectacle of an old father going daily to the grave of his child, while the shadows are lengthening, and pouring out his grief in wails that would move a demon, until his figure melts with the gray twilight, when, silent and solemn, he returns to his desolate family.

Hundreds of fingers were dismembered; hair torn from the head lay in profusion about the paths; wails and moans in every direction assailed the ear, where unrestrained joy had a few hours before prevailed.

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

The hymn had given place to the formless chant, through which the minors quivered like the wails of lost souls.

Her sister, about eight years old, came near dying of grief; she neither played, ate or slept, and they wrote me that her wails of anguish were beyond description.

Meseemeth that it wails Like some lost soul.

Sighs, wails, exclamations of entreaty welcomed the passing saint in a chorus of despair and hope.

Dismally wails, the senses chilling, The hymnthe FURIES' solemn song; And froze the very marrow thrilling As roll'd the gloomy sounds along. And weal to himfrom crime secure Who keeps his soul as childhood's pure; Life's path he roves, a wanderer free

They voice the wails of despair which then rose from the lips of many Jews.

(In Powder River Jack and Kitty Lee's cowboy song book with music cowboy wails and cattle trails of the wild West) © 14Dec34; AA167226.

(In Powder River Jack and Kitty Lee's cowboy song book with music cowboy wails and cattle trails of the wild West) © 14Dec34; AA167226.

" "Secrets," sighs the night-wind, "Vacancy is all I find; Every keyhole I have made Wails a summons, faint and sad, No voice ever answers me, Only vacancy.

"If I only had some place to put things in!" wails the first.

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