If our motor didn't keep up such a constant whirl we might have heard the whine of that lead when it went singing past us!"

Deep down in his throat Kazan gave a rumbling whine.

When the concierge's cat dragged around his wounded paw, I threw myself upon him, fired by a righteous anger, and until he stopped his whining I TOBY-DOG, (supplicatingly) Don't tell me!

He sprang about excitedly, making short nervous leaps and twists, now toward one, now toward the other, in painful indecision, not knowing his own mind, desiring both and unable to choose, uttering quick sharp whines and beginning to pant.

But presently, at a distance of one hundred yards, he distinguished the soft whining of the wolf.

It is a pathetic attitude, deeply significant of cold and misery; occasionally some poor beast emits a long pathetic whine.

For to begin at the hour of his birth, as Pliny doth elegantly describe it, "he is born naked, and falls a whining at the very first: he is swaddled, and bound up like a prisoner, cannot help himself, and so he continues to his life's end."

Many who came in young were going out old; but the odd thing was that those worst off went out gameno whining, none of the ostentatious pathos of those broken on the wheel of a great city.

Horace Walpole, and after him Byron, accused Sterne of having "preferred whining over a dead ass to relieving a living mother," and the former went so far as to declare "on indubitable authority" that Mrs. Sterne, "who kept a school (in Ireland), having run in debt on account of an extravagant daughter, would have rotted in a gaol if the parents of her scholars had not raised a subscription for her."

Let the profiteer talk o' vested richts and interestsor whine o' them, since he whines mair than he talks.

A striped awning led from the curb up to a spreading gray stone house, from inside which issued the low drummy whine of expensive jazz.

The grotto rose beautifully, and at last they were all quiet and happy again; all but poor Susy, who, seeing herself excluded, kept up a terrible whine.

Jill was surly and silent; Jack kept up a whining that smote on Lan's heart with a reproachful sound, but he braced himself with, "Guess they're better out of the way; couldn't afford another storeroom racket," and soon the pine forest had swallowed up the stranger, his three led horses, and the two little Bears.

This time, however, as though cowed, she began to whimper, and then maintained a long, trembling whine.

Then there came to his ears the sound that had stopped Croisseta low, moaning whine which seemed to have neither beginning nor end, but which was borne in on his senses as though it were a part of the soft movement of the air he breatheda note of infinite sadness which held him startled and without movement, as it held Jean Croisset.

Flint and steel soon lighted a fire, and then he sent forth his call, the long penetrating whine of the wolf.

Apparently in the first half of its curve, that is, its course while ascending, the shell produced a dull whine accompanied by a falling cadence, which changes to a rising shrill as soon as the acme has been reached and the curve points downward again.

Here one set up a plaintive whining and the other an angry growling, their outcries increasing as he came nearer.

What signifies thy tedious whining over thy departing relation?

'Taint no use to sit an' whine, When the fish ain't on yer line; Bait yer hook an' keep a-tryin' Keep a-goin'!

His voice took on a whine intended for good-fellowship.

They were drifting past the point now, and the scent of Gray Wolf came to Kazan's nostrils, rousing him, and bringing a low whine from his throat.

Beggars were seated at regular distances along the road, uttering the most dolorous whinings.

The wolf-dog, at that familiar sight, whined a low greeting, but with a glance at his master knew that there was a changethe old alliance was brokenso he bared his white teeth and changed his whine to a snarl of hate.

There would come the hungry whine of a shell passing low over the house-tops, followed, an instant later, by a shattering crash, and the whole facade of the building that had been struck would topple into the street in a cascade of brick and stone and plaster.