The train gathered speed, the wheels took up their song, the carriage groaned and shook.
Tom groaned to the doctor in his school's hospital, "My arm hurts, my stomach hurts, my chest hurts, my neck hurts, my shoulder hurts,and my head hurts.
The steps groaned under Baba's weight.
The beams groaned as if they were being torn out of their joints, it seemed as if the staircase were falling down, and at length there was a crash as if the entire roof had fallen in.
My foot struck something yielding--it was a sleeper's leg; and he turned and groaned, but without awaking.
For a while the ship kept bucking and sidling like a vicious horse, the sails filling, now on one tack, now on another, and the boom swinging to and fro till the mast groaned aloud under the strain.
The train gathered speed, the wheels took up their song, the carriage groaned and shook.
The axle-trees groaned and creaked terribly, when the oxen, turning round, thus addressed the wheels: "Hallo there!
The beams groaned as if they were being torn out of their joints, it seemed as if the staircase were falling down, and at length there was a crash as if the entire roof had fallen in.
Harry was lazy, and although he had nothing else to do but drive his goat daily to pasture, he nevertheless groaned when he went home after his day's work was done.
Now when he thought over this by night in his bed, and tossed about in his anxiety, he groaned and said to his wife, what is to become of us.
And the coach creaked and groaned; it was indeed having a mournful end.
"Either I behold a fata morgana, or I must be tipsy," groaned the counsellor.
At length the ship groaned and creaked; the thick planks gave way under the lashing of the sea as it broke over the deck; the mainmast snapped asunder like a reed; the ship lay over on her side; and the water rushed in.
