The mystery of the ages lay unexpressed in those tossing billows, sweeping in out of the black east, making low moan to the unsympathetic and unheeding sky.
But no moan came from his set lips; and when he rested a moment on his knees, looking about him upon the dead, a look of grim approval swept into his eyes.
Some began to moan and sob; others to entreat Heaven for a respite, as if God were directing their torture and taking delight in it; others again broke out into frightful imprecations, cursing their Maker and the hour of their birth.
Hat and wig broke the blow somewhat; but the little man dropped with a moan and lay quite still in the road.
The moanof her travail That groans for the light Till dayspring unravel The weft of the night, At the sound of the strings of the music of morning, falls dumb with delight.
The social rule of the Roman Emperors bred athletes, heroes, and poets, merely because physical strength and courage, combined with heroism and poetic perception were encouraged by Roman society.
In one instant, as if in obedience to a military order, the table was lined on either side with pistols.
As we neared the door a low moancould be heard distinctly.
It was locked, but at the sound of the turning knob a sad, dreary moan arose from within--a cry of mingled fear and weakness.
Then came a long-drawn, piteous moan that held the men gazing silently and stupidly at the sagging blanket.
It died out, a heart-broken moan of despair, fading to nothingness in the still, desolate world.
It is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her handmaids moan as with the voice of doves, beating on their breasts.
For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will howl like the jackals, and moan like the daughters of owls.
Your tires shall be on your heads, and your shoes on your feet: you shall not mourn nor weep; but you shall pine away in your iniquities, and moan one toward another.
We roar all like bears, and moan sore like doves: we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
The window of it, small and square-paned, looked seaward, and the moan of the sea and the pipe of the wind sounded there night and day.
Mellowly and dreamily sweet the chime floated through the dusk, blent with the moan of the sea.
There was a soft murmur of wind in the boughs over him, and the faraway moan of the sea on the bar crept in.
How oft of dole have I made moan for love and longing pain, What while my body for desire in mortal peril went!
I make my moan of woes, whereat it boots not to repine.
Music is beginning sweetly to moan along the happy coast, amid the murmur of the waves and the rustling of the orange trees, of epithalamial perfume.
The very woman who at times could be sentimental and moan at the thought of social inequalities and the suffering of the poor, could, by her fiery impetuosity, reduce the stoutest and most firmly steeled will.
Staggering backward, he caught at the banister to keep from falling, while a moan of anguish came from his ashen lips.
With a low, wailing moan she again covered her face with her hands, while Mrs. Graham repeated her question, "Shall I show it to her?
Never love made moan for a life more evil-starred.
When they that cast her kingdom down were born, North cried on south and east made moan to west For hopes that love had hardly heart to mourn, For Italy that was not.
Bulldog's statement of what he would do was cut short by the whining moan of a bullet cutting the air above their heads.
Not a cry—not a word—not even a moan betrayed the feelings of the Earl of Ellingham, as this frightful spectacle met his eyes.
Thus did Old Death menace and pray—coax and moan by turns; but at last his voice swelled into a howl of fiend-like rage, which rose like the wailing of a damned soul upon the silence of that early morning-hour.
The Squire lay senseless; but George leapt upon his feet—and almost at the same instant a low moan denoted that his enemy was not dead.
The long twigs of the wall-trees, which had never been nailed up, or had been torn down by the snow and the blasts of winter, went trailing away in the moan of the fitful wind, and swung back as it sunk to a sigh.
Would any of her ashes ever rise in the corn, and moan in the ripening wind of autumn?
They will not have to do anything there--only to moan and cry and suffer for ever, they think.
The answer was in the negative, and a moan of disappointment came from her lips.
Fire for light and hell for heaven and psalms for pæans Filled the clearest eyes and lips most sweet of song, When for chant of Greeks the wail of Galileans Made the whole world moan with hymns of wrath and wrong.
Occasionally as we toiled onward I could hear Elsie moan and sob, but Eloise gave utterance to no sound, except to reply cheerfully whenever I addressed her.
Sabathier, likewise riveted to his seat, was waiting for his wife, who had gone to fetch a bunch of grapes for him; whilst Marthe had remained with her brother the missionary, whose faint moan never ceased.
Her father and the priest had to take every precaution in doing so, for the slightest hurt drew a moanfrom her.
She struggled to get up, but sank back with a moan at the pain in her ankle.
Indeed, as if to make this illusion even more real, there came an unearthly wailing moan from the earth beneath his feet, a sound that would have chilled even stronger nerves than Dollops', tired with the strain of waiting.
A sudden moan escaped Alice's lips just after she had said this, the result of an attempt to move slightly.
The voice of joy and thanksgiving reached where the moan of pain had not been able to penetrate, to an intently listening ear a few yards from the prison.
They clasped each other's hands with a moan of terror, and fled from the house.
