Whining

Examples

• The dog too was on the alert in an instant, and ran whining to the door. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• But there was no reply to Wildeve's shout, save a mournful whining from the herons which were nesting lower down the vale. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Even Woola seemed to feel the weight of the impending calamity, for he pressed close to Dejah Thoris and to me, whining pitifully. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Any literary scrub, or shabby, whining artist. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Neglect it--go on as heretofore, craving, whining, and idling--and suffer the results of your idiocy, however bad and insuperable they may be. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Why, damme, now, the girls's whining again! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• You hear it in the whining and maniacal shrieking of the Bolshevists. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And instead of having any shame or self-control, he will be always whining and lamenting on slight occasions. Plato. The Republic.
• I hated it the first time I set my eyes on it--a sickly, whining, pining thing! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Whining are you? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• For the scrubby, shabby, whining I have no taste; for literature and the arts I have. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

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