Groaning

Examples

• The woman fixed a wild and startled look on Tom, as if a new thought had struck her; and then, heavily groaning, said, O God a' mercy! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The wind howled dismally all night, and strange cracking and groaning noises sounded here, there, and everywhere in the empty house. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The leaves fell about me from the groaning branches, and the earthy decay in the atmosphere chilled me to the bones. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The clanging and groaning of the train came nearer, and it staggered slowly into the station like a prey-laden monster into its lair. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• I was so sickly, that I was always moaning and groaning. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Well, do stop, then, said Eliza, and do something for that poor man; he's groaning dreadfully. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• My brother Sheva, he said, groaning deeply, hath the key of my warehouses. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Poor Lydgate was inwardly groaning on that margin, and Will was arriving at it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• With this mild beverage before him, George Osborne found the ex-Collector of Boggley Wollah groaning on the sofa at his lodgings. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Down he fell into the chasm, crackling down among trees, bushes, logs, loose stones, till he lay bruised and groaning thirty feet below. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• First, I resumed, half groaning, what precautions can be taken against your being recognized and seized? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Just a year ago we were groaning over the dismal Christmas we expected to have. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Is there any State in which you will find more of lamentation and sorrow and groaning and pain? Plato. The Republic.
• That next morning, which Rebecca thought was to dawn upon her fortune, found Sedley groaning in agonies which the pen refuses to describe. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• But you can't help groaning, my dear Handel. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• He heard a confused noise of screams and groanings; and, with it all, he knew he was asleep, and he struggled to wake himself. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• For what is this mighty influence thus rousing in all nations and languages those groanings that cannot be uttered, for man's freedom and equality? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Edited by Dorothy