With an oath of relief, the driver released his brake, and skilfully swung the leaders around, the coach groaning as it took the sharp turn.
The curtain rose as the imperial party took their seats, and there were neither vivas, nor groaning manifestations to express pleasure or disgust, from the audience.
The first thing that Toppy saw as he turned the shoulder of the ledge was that two of the older Slavs were lying groaning on the ground to one side of where the pit mouth had been.
Not so soulful," would demand the O'Kelly, as the solemn notes rolled jerkily from the groaning instrument beneath his hands.
Even my father and mother were able to take it lightly with plenty of laughter and no groaningthat I ever heard.
At a touch of the button by the viceroy's youngest child, an urchin of three, thousands of Boer prisoners, heavily laden with chains, brought forward tables groaning with every conceivable dainty.
I forgot to take note of my sensations on first setting foot on African soil, as I was groaning under a case of something terribly heavy at the time.
There were windfalls and stumps and bushes with pointed rocks amid the snow--offering no end of pitfalls where a man might break his ankle and lie groaning and helpless as a wounded caribou till he died.
It fell on the pans like a great trip-hammer, backed away and came on again, the icegroaning as though it were a living creature in mortal agony.
It was not consistent with truth to represent the slaves as groaning day and night under the lash of tyranical task-masters.
Then in despair he sank to the ground, hiding his face in his hands and groaning in his heart.
From the Nest came the sound of revelry, and from the slave camp there rose other sounds, the voice of groaning broken by an occasional wail wrung out of the misery of some lost creature who lay there in torment.
I am too old," said Sheelah, groaningas she rose slowly.
Whenever the turnkey was coming he was groaning and moaning on the bed.
And the peasant and little Master Misery sat together in the cart and drove off together, Misery holding his head in both hands and groaning at the jolt of the cart.
Drive straight to it," says Misery, and went on rocking himself to and fro, and groaning and complaining in his wretched little voice.
In the evening the brothers rode back, and found Midnight groaning under the bench, with his head bound up in a handkerchief.
Midnight and Sunrise rode back, on the black horse and the white, and came to the hut, where they found their brother groaning on the ground, unable to see out of his eyes, and with a dishcloth round his head.
The peasant set to work, and piled all the gold into the cart down to the very last gold piece; while Misery sat on the stone and watched, groaning and chuckling in his weak, wretched little voice.
I had stood thus for the space of a minute or two, when all at once I felt a terrible pain myself, and soon was beside him, groaning full as loud as he.
He moved into the living room, depositing his bulk on a groaning davenport.
She slipped a bare foot into the pump and moved reluctantly behind the chair that held the groaning Horker.
Old Hurricane was lying awake, tossing, groaning and grumbling with anxiety.
Some were crying, some laughing aloud some groaning and howling and some holding forth in fancied exhortations.
Beneath that jumbled mass he knew that the water was straining and groaning and swirling until it found under the thick ice the outlet that would lead it towards the big lake to the eastward.
Lieutenant Mullally twisted his ankle, and sank down groaning behind an embankment.
But, close to his shoulder, I could hear his steady, smothered groaningthat seemed to take the form of a chant.
Mr. Pike, taking no notice of the man who lay groaning on the deck, stood over Larry, who was likewise groaning.
As they ate, they flapped heavily from branch to branch and emitted low, groaning calls.
But with darkness came a brisk wind that lashed the treetops into a madly waving, groaning tangle of spectral branches and brought a cold shudder to the besieged.
All day for us the smith shall stand Beside that flashing forge; All day for us his heavy hand The groaning anvil scourge.
The creaking of the masts, the straining andgroaning of bulk-heads, as the ship labored in the weltering sea, were frightful.
I think of him, a lonely fallen Prometheus, groaning as the vulture tears him.
