Little by little the sighs and moans had ceased in the darkened ward.
Down below decks there were horror and confusion, mingled with gasping shouts and moans as the shells plunged through the decks.
Divinely, on its own sad wings, It sings a wondrous pitiful refrain, Methinks some soul with aching grief is lain-- That moans and dies with broken murmurings.
The company is silent for a moment, while the windmoans in the great chimney.
To-morrow early you must be all sorrow, moans and sighs, with irons to your hands and feet and lying upon straw in the cell of Joan.
The moans of the wounded men who lay behind did not help matters.
Screams were mixed with curses, moans drowned in the awful din.
It was as though this foreign vagrant twanged within him a neglected string, which gave forth moans of a mutiny.
Fresh moans of mirth shook the table; for having tasted the wine of laughter, all wanted as much more as they could get.
Jack shouted and pounded on the door of the partially wrecked smoke house, but there was no answer but the moans and cries that were now getting fainter and less frequent.
Then came silence, broken an instant afterward by groans and moans and swift, alarmed orders.
From the distance, softly shuddered the decreasing moans of the dying man; then there was silence.
I shall never forget the harrowing moansof the suffering man piercing the storm.
The black forest breathed heavily, in fitful moans of wind.
Towards morning the moans were less frequent, less violent, the noise of the rustling of the straw less constant; the ravings of the delirious gradually subsided; sleep overcame us, giving relief to our bodies and balm to our souls.
The prie-Dieu were overthrown and pushed away into corners, giving place to mattresses for the Teuton soldiers, whose hoarse moans and cries profaned the sanctity of the place.
Amador, gazing with awe on the altered countenance of Alharef, and listening with grief to the moans of Zayda.
In addition to this disturbance, he was often startled by moans and wild expressions, coming from the lips of the sleeping knight, showing him that even slumber brought no repose to his distempered spirit.
Ever since then the Falls have been called "The Leap of Ka Likai," and the doleful moans of their echoes are said to be the echoes of Ka Likai's anguished cries.
He was about to return home after a fruitless hunt, as he feared to be absent too long from his mother, when he heard loud moans from behind a near thicket.
She moans as though winter had fallen upon the world and were taunting her.
The tree sighs and moans and The Gaki seems transported with joy.
Jonathan moans and rolls his head, looking vacantly at Hank now and then.
With anguished hearts the captive maids looked back On Ilium, and with sobs and moans they wailed, Striving to hide their grief from Argive eyes.
And all about the city dolorous howls Of dogs uprose, and miserable moans Of strong men stricken to death; and every home With awful cries was echoing.
Naught heard he of her moans unutterable, But was afar, fast striding to the ship.
Goblins and witches and shrieks and moans and pitfalls and all uncanny weird things haunted the Black Forest of which we used to read years ago.
She laughs, she wakens gleeful cries; In her delicious laughter part revealed; Yet mother is she more of moans and sighs, For longings unappeased and wounds unhealed.
It rose from the depths, filling the air, re-echoing from the hills, and changing its modulations, a horrible chorus of moans and groans alternating with exclamations of hellish triumph.
From the caves issued plaintive wails; from the big house moans and subdued crying ascended,--the lament over the dead on the Rito.
So the captive sinks and moans when he finds that his break for freedom has led only to the tightening of his chains.
But now her strength was failing her, he was certain; her moans were becoming more frequent, her protests more vehement.
He used to run about uttering low, nervous moans before moulting; and when his time came to mate, I thought he never would find the right doe.
And if its dinnermoans again, or wriggles, it again climbs back up.
The moans of a child grew in volume, and Tarzan recognized in them the voice of the little black boy he once had sought to adopt as his balu.
At a little distance from the blaze the lions halted, there ensued a short succession of unusually vicious growls and roars, during which the cries and moans of the black man ceased--forever.
His pitiful moans caught the attention of Lieutenant Hanley and he said: "I hate to see that German suffer so.
Moans and shrieks, grindings and roarings, howlings and babbling cries that were human yet were piercingly inarticulate filled the air with an inhuman din which drove him to a frenzy.
The moans that had seemed to him those of the girl who clutched his arm grew fainter, until they were lost in the buzz and whirr of a hundred other sounds.
Cherry's brown eyes were widely opened with an expression of half-wondering pain in their usually limpid depths, and from time to time she uttered little moans which sounded doubly piteous coming from so self-controlled a child as she.
His moans fell sadly upon Marko's heart and he addressed his favourite thus: "Alas!
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