Finally she fell forward on her face upon the bench, her hands spread abroad and hanging down, her face on the hard cold wood--and all her moanings ceased.
As I passed in front of the door I heard moanings and cryings from a bench against the side of the house, and stopped.
The air, that beautiful, fresh mountain air, resounded with their moanings and groanings, and reeked with the smell of their blood.
Will you promise not to be afraid when you hear howlings and moanings in the wood?
As a matter of fact distant and strange moanings were audible.
We could distinctly hear the moanings of the wounded; and sad must have been the fate of those poor fellows whose gaping wounds were left bleeding, the shattered bones protruding through the lacerated flesh.
All was calm and quiet, save the distressing moanings of the wounded and the dying, whose cries and groans were truly touching to the heart.
The darkened room, the labored breathing and occasional moanings of the patient, the tip-toeing of the attendants and their whispered consultations, were full of sad meaning.
But the groans and moaningsof the dying child came to her ear and mingled with the joy and merriment of the guests whom the mother must wait upon.
Indeed, when I collected my thoughts and looked carefully at him, it appeared to me--" Low moanings and convulsive movements of the boy here interrupted the narrative.
When he was silent, and again began his walk, the frightful groanings and moanings were heard afresh, as if they came from a dying person.
At length, however, the mournful notes of a whippoorwill became blended with the moanings of an owl; his heavy eyes occasionally sought the bright rays of the stars, and then he fancied he saw them through the fallen lids.
The effect of the broadside on the enemy was still more dreadful; for a deathlike silence succeeded to the roar of guns, which were only broken by the shrieks and execrations that burst from her, like the moanings of the damned.
He listened to hermoanings during the night-time and thought that she was not asleep.
The effect of the broadside on the enemy was still more dreadful; for a death-like silence succeeded to the roar of the guns, which was only broken by the shrieks and execrations that burst from her, like the moanings of the damned.
Silence save for the moanings of the child Nola, who in a passionate outburst of grief had thrown herself on the body of her mother.
The gentle trickle of water along the gutters in the floor made queer, ghost-like sounds, and in the great pots of lilies all round currents of air sent weird moanings in the night.
She remained a while silent and alone in the atrium, while the moanings of the slaves and Tertius' rough admonitions to them died away in the distance.
The air will be filled with moanings and with gnashing of teeth; the Tiber will run red with blood, for the murdered Cæsar will mayhap be crying vengeance upon the assassins.
The streets were encumbered by the victims of contagious disease; their frantic cries and piteous moanings re-echoed in each piazza and under every portico.
The moanings of the dying were in her ears; the expression of their ghastly faces haunted her day and night.
At that hour vague moanings and rustlings were reported by one or another of the interested investigators, but no human agency was found to account for these.
There were many other strange things to be accounted for, such as moanings and rustlings in the morning at four o'clock, and also occasional odours of prussic acid, without apparent reason.
The night after I had taken the photograph of the mother her moanings were more frequent, and in the morning they gradually became weaker as her life ebbed out, and about ten o'clock she died.
I found that he had a disease of the heart; his sufferings were intense at times, and his moanings filled me with distress.
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