Now, not half a mile away, they came in sight of the river, which had been hidden from them before by the lie of the ground, and a groan of despair broke from their lips, for it was in flood.
Then with a groan Suzanne yielded, and crouching upon the floor like a native, awaited the return of Sihamba.
Tis twelve o'clock, and Thurtell* is just now coming out upon the new drop, Jack Ketch alertly tucking up his greasy sleeves to do the last office of mortality; yet cannot I elicit a groan or a moral reflection.
They roll about like waves, they shout, they curse, they rumble and groan like a stormy sea.
And presently he went off to his room--and when he got there he let out a groan of dismay.
Without a groan the spirit has quitted its dwelling of clay to enter upon its eternal rest!
There is another face for one moment bent over the sofa, and the next a loud heavy groan is heard in the corner of the room that comes from a heart in extreme agony; but no one, save Minette, seems conscious of it.
Marie's head dropped back with a little groan when the face of young Arthur's enchantress came between him and the opposite wall of the room and her great and tragic eyes looked into his.
Michel emitted a groanof extreme anguish, and they moved on.
Marie clapped his two hands over his face, and a groan came to her through the straining fingers.
A wave of almost intolerable pain swept through Stewart's aching head, and he gave another groan which was almost like a child's sob.
Its days of thaw made the old stream groan and crack, as the great ice fields split here and there, and seams opened.
Henry Burns, sober-faced and puzzled, gave a groan of disappointment.
I could already feel several holes in the side of my boat close to me; then there was a deep groan of suppressed pain, but no one ceased rowing.
When his eye fell on our uniforms and the red-coats of the soldiers his countenance assumed a most ridiculously scared appearance, and with a groan of terror he let the candlestick fall from his hands.
I could not help uttering a groan of grief, not for the wealth which I thus saw engulfed beneath the waves, but for the destruction of all the hopes I had been so fondly cherishing.
The man’s breast heaved, and a faint groan issued from his lips, following which his eyelids fluttered a bit and then lifted slowly.
As the ball soared over the crossbar a groan of dismay came from the Oakdale spectators.
One of us who had gone to sleep in the middle of a thunderstorm gave a deep groan of disappointment at the auspicious news.
A groan escaped from poor Potter, and he put his face in his hands and rocked his body softly to and fro, while a painful silence reigned in the court-room.
While he was deep in his musings, Becky woke up with a breezy little laugh--but it was stricken dead upon her lips, and a groan followed it.
This course worked well, and Tom began to groan again.
I had scarce finished my soliloquy, when I heard a monstrous sort of groan or growl in the air, like thunder at a distance.
Shall I add, Is it not that which greatly prevailed to bring down those judgments which at present we feel and groan under?
These temptations, they awake, are aware of, are forced to wrestle with, and greatly to groan under.
The saints of God experience a mystery of iniquity, a horrible depth of corruption in their own hearts, and groan under the plague and burden of it.
Were ever the Pharisees so profane; to whom Christ said, ye vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell; doth not the ground groan under you?
May God reckon up against you the innocent blood you have shed and in every groan and tear and cry you have wrung from tortured flesh may you find a curse in this world and hereafter!
But three times three died plaguily A-wriggling--" The singing ended suddenly and indescribably in a sound that was neither cry nor groan nor choke, yet something of each and very ghastly to be heard.
Scarce was this done than Joanna uttered a groan and, clapping her hand to her head, called out for Resolution, and with his assistance got her down to the quarter-deck.
He fell across her shoulder with so stiff a groan that for a moment she thought she had done him mortal injury.
She actually thinks, Colonel Bouchard, that she hears them groan and moan and even shriek.
Oh-h-h--" the groan ending in a clenching of the teeth.
One day he was sitting with his companions, when he began to groan and say: "There is hardly a monk upon earth who perfectly obeys his superior.
And when the first one had said all this the three youths began to moan and groan again.
When they saw him they began to moan and groan and when he looked them over he saw they were all covered with wounds--with spear-thrusts and with sword-cuts.
A deep groan shook the whole frame of the unfortunate young poet at this statement--a groan which in its intensity might have separated soul and body.
