Results for wailing

Definitions of wailing:

Wail.

Usage examples for wailing:

• 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