" A sound escaped her like the rising moan of a gale up a flue; then she sat down against trembling that seized her and sent ripples along the iridescent sequins.

an imagination so stirred that, if it slept at all, it dreamed and moaned in its sleep, as now; a conscience wounded and refusing to heal.

" The Gospeler hurriedly related the material points of FLORA'S history to his recovered friend, who moaned with all the more cheerful parts, and seemed to think that the serious ones might be worked-up in comic miss-spelling for his paper.

It started from some distance off, and came towards us, nearer and nearer, like some one walking along and moaning to himself.

A year later the pair again met to take farewell, on the hill of Annesleyan incident he has commemorated in two short stanzas, that have the sound of a wind moaning over a moor.

The sea moaned from the lashing it had receiveda faint undertone, however, that became suddenly drowned by loud and harsh clangor, the hammering on metal somewhere below.

And in my dream methought that I wept and made great moan for my fowls, and for the destruction which the hawk had made; and my maids came about me to comfort me.

Round it squatted a score of women, with plaids drawn tight over their heads, who rocked and moaned like a flight of witches, and twothree men were on their knees at the edge of the ashes.

"All for nothing!" and fell to moaning through her laced fingers.

Sighs siffled through the bracken and the heather, and the roar of the distant sea died away in moaning at the bar.

We'll hear nae more lilting at our ewe-milking, Women and bairns are heartless and wae; Sighing and moaning on ilka green loaning, The Flowers of the Forest are a' wede away.

A pleasant breeze came sweeping lazily over the lake, and went sighing and moaning among the old forest trees.

She began to sob and moan under her breath, careless even of a possible passerby.

When rueful moans along the forest swell Protracted, and the twilight storm foretel, And, headlong from the cliffs, a deafening load Tumbles,and wildering thunder slips abroad; When on the summits Darkness comes and goes, Hiding their fiery clouds, their rocks, and snows; And the fierce torrent, from the lustre broad, Starts, like a horse beside the flashing road

Meantime the wind was constantly moaning around it; and in the moaning was a sound of human sighs and tears.

I might perhaps have had love which I did not want but not that which I did want,which was not a thing to make any unmanly moan about, but in the ordinary course of events.

Thus passed the careless, happy years for Countess and poet until, in 1803, Alfieri followed the "Bonnie Prince" behind the veil, and left a desolate Louise to moan amid her tears, "There is no more happiness for me.

"The chaplet on thy brow an' thee weeping!fairest flower of all!" "I have wished that I was dead;" the words came in a little moan between sobs.

I was thinking, among other things, of how soon I should be struck by one of those flying bullets, like the men who lay moaning inside the doorway of one of the cottages.

The lady sprang up suddenly, The lovely lady, Christabel! It moaned as near, as near can be, But what it is she cannot tell.

The wind moaned above him in the spruce tops.

It escaped me unawares; but I'll keep a better watch on myself for the future, and not even the knowledge of your sympathy shall lure another moan out of me."

and when I get home the wind moans down the chimney, 'O-o-o-gh-h! wha-a-t have you do-o-one with your summer's w-a-A-a-ges!"

The moon was out-riding black, scudding clouds, and the wind moaned round the sea, which looked like a vast, wrinkled serpent in the moonlight.

The year before A Turkish army had march'd o'er; And where the Spahi's hoof hath trod, The verdure flies the bloody sod: The sky was dull, and dim, and gray, And a low breeze crept moaning by I could have answered with a sigh