The night-bird wails below; The stars creep out above; And the roses soon in the sultry moon Shall palpitate with love.
From thick Thuringian thickets growl Fierce, fearful monsters black and foul; And close before him a stritch-owl Wails like a ghost unquiet: Then the clouds aside are driven And the moonlight, stormy striven.
The unearthly shrieks, wails and moans had also served the purpose of the invaders.
By that time the wails of the invaders had ceased and their footsteps had died out.
From the weird groups came wails and howls while the dull eyes emitted sparks.
Then Billet quitted the nook and came to him, saying, as he no longer heard the wails of the count which had made his heart ache: "Alas, Dr.
The ghost of a dead church is the worst of all disembodied sighs: he wails and chatters at you.
The sea wails loud, and the sea wails long, As the ages of waiting drift slowly by, But the sea shall sing no bridal song-- As well know you and I!
Curses, wails of grief, yells of savage fury, blended with the thunder of the artillery and the ringing of the alarm bells.
Wails of pain and shouts of victory, the blare of trumpets, the crash of shattered ships and falling masts blended in hellish uproar.
I heard the cries and wailsof various animals, but Jack said that was nothing--they always heard them.
In seconds the room was filled with unearthly hoots andwails and whistles.
The unhuman hoots and wails and whistles came through for nearly a minute, and stopped.
From the street which adjoined the garden-wall they heard the wails of women lamenting the dead or bearing a corpse to the tomb.
Then he distinguished the piteous wails of tortured men and women; for cruel overseers had followed them into the mine and were urging the slow to greater haste.
And now, Tecmessa, take the boy again; Shut up the tent, and let us have no wails Here at the door; women are made of tears.
That he is brooding on some fell design, His wails and exclamations plainly show.
Be sure, of wails and dirges before death, If leave were given, we ne'er should have an end.
His cries and wails disturbed the families of the fishermen, but a mischievous demon came along, and, seeing him carrying an enormous sack full of sand and pebbles, tripped him up.
Among day-books and bills they had lain better, In which the merchant wails his bankrupt debtor.
Fair Hero, left devirginate, Weighs, and with fury wails her state; 10 But with her love and woman's wit She argues and approveth it.
From the next room, by way of opened windows and transoms, came the most lugubrious wails he thought he had ever listened to.
Instead, herwails rose higher; and Aggie, who had paid no attention so far, but was sitting back with her eyes shut, looked up.
In spite of Aggie's wails Tish poured a large part of the blackberry cordial into a biscuit pan, and put in a chip of wood.
The firing had ceased after about ten minutes, and new sounds took its place: wails and shrieks, the crackling of bamboo, told the story of the burning village.
This proposition was greeted by some neighbors' children with a chorus of wails and the housewife too objected, but to the farmer, who was much perplexed to know what to do with the bear, it seemed like quite a Providential opening.
The child's wails now grew louder and more frequent.
The first time Sara took her in charge was one morning when, on passing a sitting-room, she heard both Miss Minchin and Miss Amelia trying to suppress the angry wails of some child who, evidently, refused to be silenced.
The tongue grew larger and the house smaller till it fell in, into a sea of wails and screams of terror.
It wails plaintively, as though a thousand souls were praying for Tikun,[137] or a thousand little boys for five kopeks for a night's shelter.
Further wails of the frightened and repentant one were lost in an ecstatic shout of laughter from Mr. Cabot.
When he ceased, the deep breath of natural emotion could be felt and heard throughout the crowded court; loud wails of sobbing women broke from the gallery.
Presently he turned with anger upon one of Minta's wails which happened to reach him.
The fresh pure air infused new courage into her fainting heart; the memory of those mournful, anguished wails became less dreadful as her courage rose.
Perhaps those gilded walls had echoed such wails of agony before, and the hearts of those who heard them had grown callous with long familiarity.
Those wails and yells and hideous drummings and trumpetings were African in every weird cadence and boisterous hoot and clang.
But although the wails and yells and moans and the constant drumming over the dead wizard never ceased, no man came from the cover of the vines into the clearing.
Minute by minute the cries became more general, and rose to such a hideous intermingling of wails and shrieks as I should not have believed could issue from merely human throats.
On the first, all things were clad in mourning, sorrow was depicted in every face, and wails and weeping resounded.
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