This miserable, sneaking Pixie was lashed to a mast of his own ship, and as the Kind towed the Tattle through the Brownie fleet he was greeted everywhere with groans and jeers by the true-hearted sailors.
Down in the cave the groans and cry with which the corpses of their comrades were greeted, were heard by the little band of devoted explorers.
The groans and yells of the Pixie crew answered back the voice of the waters.
To Agitius,[199] thrice consul, the groans of the Britons.
On both sides there was a great slaughter, thegroans of the dying causing a greater rage in those that survived.
The roar of the cannon, the sighing of the shot, the groans of the wounded, the dark shades of approaching evening, all conspired to render the scene one of intense gloom.
By these explosions some were occasionally wounded and a few killed, until, at length, the shrieks of the wounded and groans of the dying were heard in various parts of the fortress.
If you have any information you must know that the southern press groans with publications upon this topic.
Gradually the face of the woman relaxed, and her oaths ceased, though her groans were still fearful.
At such times all is soon a scene of the wildest confusion, and shrieks and groans are heard on all sides.
I try so not to groan when you are here, you must not grudge me a few groans when you are out of the room.
No beast so fearful as the rage of a slave let loose on free-born backs; their groans are familiar to him, and he cannot be sparing of punishment that he himself has undergone; remembering his own master he hates the man he lashes.
Men must needs erect monuments to celebrate this infamy; on many an anvil groansthe bronze that is to take upon it the form of this monster.
The Almogavar was born to grief; trouble came at his first hour; his first breath was the sigh of Granada, his first cry was mingled with the groans of his enslaved people, his first look was on the tears of his father.
Every day do I look down from the pyramid, and hearken to the groans of those who destroyed Granada; and every day, though the lamentings be wilder and louder, yet are they fewer.
For relics, there were his brother and sister; and for a solemn dirge, the uncontrollable groans of a heart-stricken multitude.
This ostentatious miser, in the books which he publishes groans over the lot of the peasantry, and in his vast domains he employs five hundred miserable serfs.
I stabbed wildly through and through, and got groans for payment.
I could write a book as large as that (pointing to the City Directory) filled with shrieks and groans of women after they are lost, but what good would it do?
At length, destitute of provisions and hopeless of relief, that unfortunate monarch yielded to the groans of his subjects and the clamors of his soldiers.
The restoration of Chosroes was celebrated with feasts and executions; and the music of the royal banquet was often disturbed by the groans of dying or mutilated criminals.
These are the breathings of simple faith, and they perfectly harmonize with the groans of a spirit "that looks beyond its cage and longs to flee away.
He groans in sympathy with a groaning creation, with which he is linked by means of a body of sin and death--a body of humiliation.
His tears and groans emanated from the profound depths of a perfect human heart which felt, according to God, the true condition of the human family and of Israel in particular.
I, as with dull groans the brutes sank to the ground.
Here the Soldier began to hear, at a distance, the most lamentable Groans and Sighs of a vast Number of People; and the nearer he drew, the more he heard their doleful Lamentations.
Having shouted loudly we were answered by groans and cries for help which came from the room on the first floor of which the windows were broken.
When I came in last night about four I heard groans in Josephine's room.
Here's a situation as would wring groans from the breast of a boiled onion.
Death had made a speedy harvest, and riderless horses were galloping hither and thither, amid the groans and cries of the wounded.
The blare of trumpets and Saracen horns, the beating of drums and gongs, drowned the noise of groans and imprecations.
Not even the sobs and groans of injured innocence, which reek from every State, can excite her pity, nor human misery bend her heart to sympathy.
Not even the sobs and groans of injured innocence which reek from every state can excite her pity, nor human misery bend her heart to sympathy.
Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee, Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee!
Twas to save thee, child, from dying, Save my dear from burning flame, Bitter groans and endless crying, That thy blest Redeemer came.
Tell how this Nameless, condemn'd for years long To herd with demons from hell beneath, Saw things that made him, with groans and tears, long For even death.
I think I hear groans that grow fainter and fainter, and fear that they will all be tomahawked!
To see the splintering hull, the parting shrouds, the shivered gear, and hear the shrieks and groans of his wounded; and he unable to reply in kind!
Stifled sobs and groans resounded in the direction of the vestry.
Nothing was heard but the wild imprecations and shouts of the fighting, the shrieks and groans of the wounded and the screams of the women and children.
There was now no sound except the low groans of women in the audience and the subdued curses of maddened men.
No sound could now be heard save the low groans of wounded men and women.
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