A drear neet for th' owd Maister," the Sexton's wife was crooning to herself, as she knitted her stocking in the belfry tower above.
She was passive in his hands, and fell to crooning happily while he drew a great rug of badgerskin across her.
Crouched above the smouldering wreckage, her hands spread white and slim to the glow, was Mistress Wayne; and she was crooning happily some ballad learned in childhood.
By-and-by the kitten came crooningand sidling up to her, and hopped into the box.
Ah Moy immediately began his self-imposed task, and worked with a will, crooningthe while a quaint Celestial air.
Then sitting down again and crooning to himself, he partook of betel-leaf, faced round towards the patient and stooped over him, muttering as he did so, and passing his hands all over the prostrate form.
In the quiet, as the horse slowed to a standstill, we heard the crooning of a song in the garden.
Never again will Hannah receive a parting kiss, or the father caress the baby crooning in the cradle.
She could hear the swallows crooningin their nests beneath the eaves.
This evening as the women busied themselves with the building of the tepees, there was no crooningon their lips.
In a monotonous minor key the singing of the women began—at first like the crooning of an Indian mother to a restless child when the camp fires burn blue, and all the braves are snoring in the dark.
But for all the crooning and jolting small Margie fretted, rubbed her small fists into her eyes, and drew up her legs.
Talithie gathered her up and came back to the hearth crooning softly as she jolted to and fro in a straight chair.
And sing songs," suggested Rosslyn, who loved to listen to Gloriana's rich, sweet voice carolling joyous lays or softly crooning lullabyes.
She only smiled vacantly, and with a feeling of intense pity Adair saw her again bend her head and heard her talking and crooning to the dead child.
The house hung sleepily at the heart of the hot forenoon, very quiet and open; overhead, Sheila was shuffling about, with a crooning of soft Irish minors.
Mrs. Carucci was able to speak only a few words of unsteady thanks; but that was enough to make me fall in love with the crooning voice of her.
I had arrived ahead of the others and had found him crooning over the smouldering logs, looking into the embers.
A long way back to the cellar, and Granny Faa crooning over her black pot--in her best mood, be sure, or she would not be singing the Cherry Tree Carol.
Elizabeth held her sickly babe, rocking it and crooning to it, while upstairs one of kind-eyed Cumberland women was getting a warm bath ready, and lighting a fire in the guest-room.
All day long, one or other of the tribe would sit by his side, staring out at the snows, crooningand looking unspeakably wise and sorrowful.
Now I, too, must remember my song," and he began purring and crooning to himself, harking back dissatisfied again and again.
Aunty Boone was crooning some African melodies in the bushes half-way down the slope.
Out by the rear gate leading to the fort corral, Aunty Boone was crooning a weird African melody.
Aunty Boone's crooning voice was still, and everything had grown weird and ghostly.
Nobody would have known Billy just then, as he stood crooning over Mark.
But Billy crept close to his friend once more and began rubbing his hands and forehead and crooning to him as he had once done to his dog when he suffered from a broken leg.
And just before the bugles sounded all ashore I heard a few of them crooning an old Scots song: "Will ye no come back again?
The frogs in the field ponds were crooning their nightly lullabys, and their continuous croaks served as an orchestral accompaniment to the sweet warbling of the robins and other songsters of the twilight hours.
The streets were deserted, and lights gleamed only in upper windows of apartments, where sick sufferers tossed, or tender mothers sang soft lullabys to restless babies crooning in their cribs.
At the close of one desperate, immemorial day, the pianist was crooning at the piano, his spirits vastly depressed.
As a melody it has all the lurking voluptuousness and mystic crooning of its composer.
That was a real owl crooning to his mate now in the big hemlock over the way, although at first Tubby thought it might be the same sound they had heard before.
Mariana, with tragic eyes, was fanning the little, flushed face, crooning a negro lullaby which she had treasured from her own childhood.
The infantile hands, with their waxen look of helplessness, caused him to draw his breath as he turned away, and to wonder how Mariana could sit there hour after hour, crooning the negro song and waving to and fro the palm-leaf fan.
For the rest of her life she was an imbecile: she never left the castle, and spent her time crooning a plaintive song and rocking a cradle.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crooning" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
