" 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

"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.

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.

She, too, began to think she saw something, she could not tell what, gliding out of the room as it began to get dark, and to hear sighs and moans in the corridors.

The wind moaned above him in the spruce tops.

(The old woman moans after each sentence.)

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

And we took her up, and bore her, With the leaves that moaned before her, To the holy forest bowers, Where the trees were dense and serried,

So finally I got to the doors and just as they was swingin' to behind me, I heard a sort of a moan behind me" "From Dan!" whispered the white-faced girl.

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