"Now, then," he said, and lay down on the settle, groaning most grievously.
She heard someone groaning.
Don't be alarmed if you hear me groaning.
However, it seemed well worth while to chance it, so he fell to groaning with considerable spirit.
A good, generous prayer it was, and went into details: it pleaded for the church, and the little children of the church; for the other churches of the village; for the village itself; for the county; for the State; for the State officers; for the United States; for the churches of the United States; for Congress; for the President; for the officers of the Government; for poor sailors, tossed by stormy seas; for the oppressed millions groaning under the heel of European monarchies and Oriental de
Melville's novel wasn't received well on publication (it took decades before people really started to 'get' how great it is), and the negative sentiment is echoed every year when groaning students are forced to read it.
Melville's novel wasn't received well on publication (it took decades before people really started to 'get' how great it is), and the negative sentiment is echoed every year when groaning students are forced to read it.
But when he tried to get out again he found himself so swollen after his big meal that he could not squeeze through the hole, and fell to whining and groaning over his misfortune.
But the Dawn Treader was already well away, running before a fresh breeze, and the men lay and sat panting and groaning all about the deck, till presently they were able to talk about it, and then to laugh about it.
If not for you, I must be shivering in the despair and fear, groaning painfully.
I vomited on a tangle of weeds, my retching and groaning drowned in the deafening roar of the MiG.
The landlord took a toolkit down and tried to pry the nails out when groaning at the same time.
Groaning continually, he climbed the mountain, and at length reached the old woman's house, when he was just about to drop.
" Every time that he stopped walking, someone called out, and he had to walk on until, groaning and out of breath, he brought the basket with the gold and the two girls to their parents' house.
Let him see what he can do" The sham doctor asked to be left alone with the sick man, and the request was granted Finding her lover groaning and unconscious in his sickbed, the princess felt like weeping and smothering him with kisses But she restrained herself because of the urgency of carrying out the witch's directions She paced up and down the room until she stepped on a loose tile, which she raised and discovered a phial of ointment With it she rubbed the prince's wounds, and no sooner h
The jibs behind me cracked aloud, the rudder slammed to, the whole ship gave a sickening heave and shudder, and at the same moment the main-boom swung inboard, the sheet groaning in the blocks, and showed me the lee after-deck.
I believe the readiness of our return volley had scattered the mutineers once more, for we were suffered without further molestation to get the poor old gamekeeper hoisted over the stockade and carried, groaning and bleeding, into the log-house.
The booms were tearing at the blocks, the rudder was banging to and fro, and the whole ship creaking, groaning, and jumping like a manufactory.
You may be protesting that technically these people have never been dead and thus don't fit the dictionary definition of "zombies," but we can assure you that the distinction won't matter a whole lot once these groaning hordes are clawing their way through your windows.
As he sat at the hole groaning over his fate, a Weasel, who was brought to the spot by his cries, thus addressed him: "Stop there, my friend, and fast till you are thin; for you will never come out till you reduce yourself to the same condition as when you entered.