The child's wail below had now in it the unmistakable sound of suffering.
The years are hungry, They wail all their days; The gods wax angry And weary of praise; And who shall bridle their lips?
But thou, O mother, The dreamer of dreams, Wilt thou bring forth another To feel the sun's beams When I move among shadows a shadow, and wailby impassable streams?
The women's song was said to be intended for the wail of mothers, wives, and daughters at the departure of the warriors for the fight; the response conveyed the resolution of the warriors not to be withheld, but to fight and conquer.
And after a third wail in another key, the statue-like figures moved and formed two diagonal lines opposite to each other, their backs to opposite angles of the square.
Wi' sighs an' sobs she thus began To wail her braw John Highlandman.
The youthful lord on such stupendous woe May never gaze unmov'd; with bitter wail The father's sleeve he clasps.
And thou, O Earth, with smiles thy face make sweet, And let thy wailbe stilled, To hear the Muse of prophecy repeat Her promise half fulfilled.
The eerie wail of a jackal broke in presently upon the lesser sounds of the night; but that was so commonly heard in Assam that Forrester scarcely noticed it.
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.
We are the only mourners here," said Leonard, and as he spoke once more the low and piercing wail thrilled upon the air.
The snow had drifted up to the windows, and entirely over the little lean-to that had been erected at the time that little Danny had added his feeble wail to the general family chorus.
From the little window of the caboose came the discordant wail of a very young infant, and old Sam felt his claims growing more and more shadowy.
The bellow of the motor rose to a sound like batteries of Gatlings in action; then came the wail of brakes.
It ended then in a wail of frenzy--not of fear, but of royal rage at the thought of any creature offering challenge!
Shrieking his baleful note, which ever drove 8 Far from that haunt all other cheerful fowl; 9 And all about it wandering ghosts did wail and howl.
Hellelil sitteth in bower there, None knows my grief but God alone, And seweth at the seam so fair, I never wail my sorrow to any other one.
None thenceforth heard wailor cry Till the King's feast was waxen high.
My heart, o'er early faded dreams of bliss Its wail shall pour.
A wail of despair was rising from the Christians: "Kyrie eleison!
But the crash of the cymbals, the boom of the copper kettledrums, the wild wail of the hautboys, the flutes, and the tinkling Persian harps, sounded above all.
Perdidi Musam tacendo nec me Apollo respicit,[132] sound like the wail of the old literature, which no spring was to awaken to new song.
A rending shriek, a rasping wail came from the innermost part of the dwelling, rising above the heads of the curious or terrified women.
Silence reigned supreme at length within, and without was broken only by the hoarse croaking of the frogs, an occasional call from a night owl, and the weird wail of the curlew.
None of those who heard the piteous wail that was borne across the floods in the black and wild darkness of that night would forget it for many a long day to come.
While from above comes a wail as that of a lost soul.
Its wail can never be stilled in our hearts while thought and memory remain.
If they were driven begging through the world, it was for men to weep and wail whose lives had fallen in such evil times; but not for them, hewn from the eternal rock--it was not for them to grieve.
Yet, not for ever lost, she roves Amid the winding currents, And utters to the hills and groves Her wail above the torrents.
While she thus lamented--and what else could she do, that female ascetic, but cry and wail and weep in piteous accents?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wail" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
