By this time, it had grown quite dark in the passages, and from these came all the varied cries and groans of which an old house is so full after nightfall.

Fierce and long had been the fight and the enthusiastic spectators had shouted themselves hoarse with applause or groaned in despair when the honor of Marlborough seemed likely to be lost.

"The man who likes bravery, and yet groans under poverty, has mischief in him.

After a few minutes, the sounds were repeated, and the hills seemed to groan with affright as they sent them back in wavy and quavering echoes from their rugged sides.

Memory of what Gray had (as she supposed) followed her into the library to say to her wrung a sort of groan from the girl.

So, too, has the misanthrope, groaning at any severity shown towards him.

Keep yer groans for yer own nest.

Harrie was groaning over the last wristband but one, when she heard her husband's voice in the hall.

Gentlemen," when a cake of soap, flung by Maxton, struck him a violent blow in the pit of the stomach, and he was still rolling and groaning on his bed in the throes of recovering his lost wind when the prefect arrived to turn out the light.

Pentavalon groans beneath a black usurper's heel, all the sins of hell are loose, murder and riot, lust and rapine.

If they could be made an integral part of all our teaching in families, schools, and institutions, the burdens under which society is groaning to-day would fall more and more lightly on each succeeding generation.

" "Uncle Tom's not feeling too bucked about it all, you say?" "He's groaning like a lost soul.

"Hey!" cries Ralph, sending out a cloud of smoke, "what are you groaning about, my dear fellow?

The big assembly shouted till the roof rang and the windows rattled; then the meeting slowly dispersed, a feeble attempt to raise three cheers for Thurston being met with as many groans as plaudits.

The British ambassador carried to him the letter of their countrymen, which was inscribed, THE GROANS OF THE BRITONS.

Here and there some poor wretch who could win no farther sat groaning by the roadside or rolled in delirium upon the ground.

Goaded by the cowardly persecution, the proselytes groaned after deliverance; a few even dared to renounce the profession of a faith they never held, and many resumed the practice of Jewish rites in private.

The man fell without a groan across the door-sill.

His spirit groaned within him at the thought that old Ben Gaynor had been lured into paths along which he should come to hobnob with men like Gratton.

Do you remember the half-whistles and half-groans through the key-holes and crevices,the cries and shrieks that rise and fall,the roaring in the chimney,the slamming of distant doors and shutters?

His fingers slipped off their separate grips, and the stump, though it groaned against the taproot under the strain, did not come out.

The poor man groaned amid his heavy labors and great privations, without exciting compassion or securing redress.

So that the rich people, the bourgeois, whose houses she did not enter, continued to groan without his being able to relieve them.

interrupted Kansas Casey, giving the handcuffs an expert twitch that wrenched a groan out of McFluke.

Thou knowest well, how here with us in Schwytz All worthy men are groaning underneath This Gessler's grasping, grinding tyranny.