Before it was a defacing debris of torn grass and earth in which Blink scratched impatiently, whining over the delay in the chip-squirrel's exit.
These plants are especially abundant in the south, where one encounters them upon every roadside.
But the obeah, with a whining plaint, spat away his tobacco-leaf.
He came twice over into my room, whining and asking me where you were.
You'd better not touch us, old Serge," cried the biggest lad, in a whining tone.
Why, you seemed sore all over, whining about your armour and your helmet.
The next instant the door was flung wide open, and the collie, rushing into the room, performed an ecstatic dance round him, barking and whining with delight.
Hid in the Palace of Augustus, whining like a coward for his vanished power.
Are we naughty children that can thus be sent, well-whipped and whining to bed?
The dogs came in crouching and whining to their master; while the wind shrieked and whistled, and the foaming breakers thundered higher and higher upon the unprotected shore.
Shunka Chistala was whiningin her little tent when she came into the camp.
The horses, fancying perhaps that this was a motion-picture scene, dozed behind their rock-and-brush shelters and switched apathetically at buzzing flies and whining bullets alike.
A whining noise came from overhead, and then a crash like a thunderbolt.
Another allosaurus, whining with eagerness, actually clambered up the back of an assailed giant only to fall back under the blast of a retortii mounted in the howdah.
Keith punched a stud, and the NX-1's whining motors dulled to a scarcely audible purr.
Meanwhile the other allosaurus remained crouched, whining impatiently for its keepers to cast it loose.
For about ten minutes the room remained perfectly dark, as I have said, and all the while I could hear that whining noise.
A cant or whiningmode of speaking, especially in preaching or praying.
At the fight in the Circus, I could not help thinking of my father, when the huge king of the desert lay with a broken spear in his loins, whining loudly, and burying his maned head between his great paws.
You will soon learn to scorn this tribe of beggars who come whining round us.
Whispers reached my ears from the end of the passage, and then I heard Petrak yell in his fretful, whining way: "Hold it down, Bucky!
He was whining querulously as I stepped ashore, and the first words I heard him say were: "An organ!
When I crawled into the bus I wished that I had struck a bargain with the thief of a cochero, for I found myself in a seat beside the whining missionary.
He was whining now, and he was in terror of Thirkle.
We'll fetch the harbour on the next tack," Billy muttered to Skipper, who was whining in the bow.
The dog was coming nearer, still whining strangely, and madly pawing the water.
The man who sits whining and complaining, when he has shut out the thought of a divine Presence, finds that everything alters when he brings that in.
There is enough in all our lives to make material for plenty of whining and complaining, if we choose to take hold of them by that handle.
The dog gave a whining cry, licked at his face, and then barked again with all his might.
The dog dashed at the clothes, snuffed at them, tossed them over, snuffed at them again, and then uttered a sharp, whining bark.
She was saying things to them in bear-talk, sort of whining and grunting, and they wobbled along behind her up to that pile of leaves.
Mother Grizzly heard the strange sound, which was unlike anything of which she knew the meaning, and cuffing the whining cubs into instant silence, she started cautiously up the barrier to see what was going on or what danger menaced.
It's mean to sit and fumble the cards And curse your losses, leaden-eyed, Whining to try and try.
Huz sat on his haunches beside her and stared too, whining occasionally as if he didn't quite like the prospect either.
They had gone some distance into the pasture, but he tagged along as fast as his wobbling legs would carry him, whining occasionally because he was getting tired and felt lonesome so far behind.
The woods were already echoing with soft night noises, frogs croaked; the clicking notes of the katydids mingled with the whining of the wind through the boughs overhead.
Come not to me on the morrow with any whining tale of angel or devil, and think thus to excuse thyself for their escape.
Presently his eyes fell upon a blind man, feeling his way slowly along with a staff and whining out a dolorous cry for alms as he went.
