Now in a while they heard a sound, faint and confused: a hum, that presently grew to a murmurto a droneto a low wailing of voices, pierced of a sudden by a shrill cry no man's lips could utter, that swelled high upon the air and died, lost amid the growing clamour.

" The boy had hushed his wailing at once, and turned his face upward to the stranger.

She began such a wailing that it aroused others in Niggertown.

And the dead leave thee wailing!

In the room there were four closed doors and it was from beyond these that there came to him the wailing of children.

While they sit round the scaffold, one of the nearest relations commences a doleful crying, when all the others join in, and continue their wailing for some time.

Are we the sentient toys of an Almighty Power, who sports with our agony, and whose peals of awful mocking laughter echo the wailings of our despair?" VII.

Who hoped with wreaths of holy pine, Bright with new famethe victory o'er The Singer's temples to entwine!" And loud lamented every guest Who held the Sea-God's solemn feast As in a single heart prevailing, Throughout all Hellas went the wailing.

Do thou fulfil thy work but as yon wild-fowl do, Thou wilt heed no less the wailing, yet hear through it angels singing.' Eversley, 1849.

Her tongue no more distinct complaints affords, But in shrill accents and mishapen words Pours forth such hideous wailings, as declare The human form confounded in the mare:

With one deep shriek she thro' doth break, when her ears receive their wailing "Let me kiss my Celin ere I dieAlas!

The snow was deeply drifted Upon the ridges drear That lay for miles between me And the camp for which we steer. 'Twas silent on the hill-side, And by the solemn wood No sound of life or motion To break the solitude, Save the wailing of the moose-bird With a plaintive note and low, And the skating of the red leaf Upon the frozen snow.

His mother and female friends gathered about him and set up a dismal wailing; they besmeared themselves with his blood and endeavored by other Indian customs to restore his life.

Who, in the outset of their grief, Upon a father's neck may spring; Or find in innocence relief, And to a cherish'd infant cling; Or thus, like me, forlornly shed Their lonely wailing o'er the dead!

We do not praise the mother who, impelled by her protecting love, feeds her crying infant and stills its wailings at her breast; rather should we blame her if she turned aside from its weeping to play with some toy.

Should not such a spirit shriek aloud for vengeance, or weep a wailing for his destiny?

And so at last came the day, and once more there was borne to us the sad wailing that had preceded the night.

We witnessed nowhere any wailings or wringing of hands or frantic, foolish pleading to stay at home.

In his hard, narrow bed that night, where the cold came through the unchinked logs and the wind brought him the wailing of the wolves, he prayed that he might not be too much elated by this extraordinary distinction.

Now, suddenly, and in the distance, I caught the far wailing that came before the night, and abruptly, as it seemed to me, the tree wailed at us.

And Dago, the moment the lash fell, ceased his wailing and begging, and stood quivering, with his head bent, his teeth set and gritting, until the punishment was ended.