So they called to know the matter, but there was none to answer, only they heard a groaning.

I have beard their groanings,' &c.

One had an arm blown away, and kept up a dreadful groaning.

Everywhere may be seen human bodies, single shattered limbs, ruins of the exploded building, flying through the air, and covering the groaning, trembling earth.

From below, rose a shrill wail; and the door ceased its groaning.

And I leave yourself to imagine the groaning that was heard in the church that morning, for weren't they all small tenants?

"Do, and stop your groaning like a madman," said Marcia, consolingly.

And all the while there rose groanings and moanings from eddies in the bottom of the well, as if the spirits that kept watch over the jewel were yammering together that one should be so near it; and clear above them all I heard Grace's voice, sweet and grave, 'Have a care, have a care how you touch the treasure; it was evilly come by, and will bring a curse with it.'

It would cost you a groaning, to take off my edge.