Results for wailing
Usage examples for wailing:
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It was like the wailing of a great company of mourning women.
"The Guests Of Hercules", C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson -
Such a long silence ensued that I began to despair of hearing the cry again, when, with a suddenness which straightened the hair on my head, a wailing shriek, exactly like a despairing woman might give in death agony, split the night silence.
"The Last of the Plainsmen", Zane Grey -
Why may he not love without purchasing his love by wailing his happiness by misery?
"Tales From the 'Phantasus', etc. of Ludwig Tieck", Ludwig Tieck -
I hear the pibrock wailing Amidst the din of fight, And my dim spirit wakes again Upon the verge of night.
"A Book For The Young", Sarah French