Wailing

Examples

• On every hand was heard the complaints of women, the wailing of children, and the cries of men. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I had scarcely arrived at the total when a seventh was heard, as in the region of air, wailing dolefully. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Not a man was left behind but the clerk--the poor old clerk standing on the flat tombstone sobbing and wailing over the church. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The house was still as death, and nothing but the wailing of the wind broke the deep hush. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Pile dirge on dirge; rouse the funereal chords; let the air ring with dire wailing; let wild discord rush on the wings of the wind! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Instantly there was wailing and gnashing of teeth in the camp. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• But now he heard, outside, the sounds of many voices, and long mournful howls, and mighty wailing. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• For a long time no sound broke the deathlike stillness of the jungle midday save the piteous wailing of the tiny man-child. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Where late the busy multitudes assembled for pleasure or profit, now only the sound of wailing and misery is heard. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I do not believe that the police credit me--on my word, I do not, said he in a wailing voice. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Keep your damned head and get the anger out and stop this cheap lamenting like a damned wailing wall. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Would you turn all the youth of the world into a tragic chorus, wailing and moralizing over misery? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Not before dark night did the men and women come back to the children, wailing and breadless. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• And shall we proceed to get rid of the weepings and wailings of famous men? Plato. The Republic.

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