The moaning of the horses maddened me, and I sent a bullet through the head of my own poor beast, which was writhing horribly.

Yet it to be as she did miss me, even in her sleep; for it to seem to me that she put out her arms in the darkness, and she made a little moaning in her slumber.

As if there came such moaning from the flood As is heard often after stormy nights.

I stumbled and slipped along the hill-side, my breath labouring, and a moaning at my lips from sheer agony and weakness.

These dear old people whose moaning during service, seems even now so pitiful and weird, I think learned to mourn out in prayers, thoughts and feelings wrung from their agonizing hearts, which they did not dare express when they were forced to have their meetings under the surveillance of a white man.

Only the cracking shell of certain crabs and the dolorous moaning near the surface of certain fishes, called snorers, alter this silence.

That had so upset the old man that he had broken down and lay moaning on the straw, while the mild little woman explained that the being left behind was not what troubled her, but it was her purse and belongings that had been carried off in the carts.

The rain-drops dashed against the window-panes, the storm swept with melancholy moaning through the branches of the trees.

Roseen fairly danced about, imitating Pat's moanings to the best of her ability.

She had suffered the pangs of purgatory, but her natural cheeriness asserted itself, and she made no moaning about past agonies which had exercised a really delightful influence on her appetite.

The congregation would begin clapping their hands while this prayer was in progress and general moanings with one or both of the preachers praying at the same time why this brother or sister is taken in to the flock to sin no more.

As we dashed through the park, I thought I heard some one moaning among the trees, and clenched my fist at him (whoever he might be) with fury.

There is nobody on either side of the Atlantic (whether we use the word as indicating its limited sense as an ocean, or its larger and more liberal moaning as a magazine) who would not rejoice in his success, and be grieved by his failure.

The organ shook, the music wept; For sometimes like a wail it crept In broken moanings down the shadows drear;