Moaning

Examples

• Farther and farther toward the ground they inclined, and still there was no sound save the deep and awesome moaning of the wind. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Calypso sighing for Ulysses, observed Crispin, without altering his position; though I dare say it is only the wind moaning through the ropes. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Making the same low, dreary, wretched moaning in her shawl, she went away. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Having read it twice by a great effort, he turns it down so that it shall not be seen and lies moaning. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• We carried her away from the water to where there were some dry stones, and there laid her down, crying and moaning. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• She would follow him out of the room and put her hand on his arm moaning out, Save my boy. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I lifted up the leaden hand, and held it to my heart; and all the world seemed death and silence, broken only by his mother's moaning. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The figure in the chair between them, was all the time monotonously rocking itself to and fro, and moaning. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Faintly, from a distance, came a low, sad moaning. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• A low moaning sound was coming from somewhere over our heads. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• She could hear Winifred moaning: 'OH DO FIND HER GERALD, DO FIND HER,' and someone trying to comfort the child. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I was so sickly, that I was always moaning and groaning. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Catherine was moaning. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• All this passed in a whisper a door or two from the house in which I could faintly hear crying and moaning. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Miss Havisham, with her head in her hands, sat making a low moaning, and swaying herself on her chair, but gave no answer. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.

Typed by Deirdre