1 She could only wait, wait and moan in spirit as she felt him withdrawing, withdrawing and contracting, coming to the terrible moment when he would slip out of her and be gone.
2 She was gone in her own soft rapture, like a forest soughing with the dim, glad moan of spring, moving into bud.
3 The conversation was here interrupted by a moan from the sick woman.
4 There had been a moan and motion of the hand; and, with terror added to rage, he had struck and struck again.
5 On the present heated afternoon, when no perceptible wind was blowing, the trees kept up a perpetual moan which one could hardly believe to be caused by the air.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 4: 5 The Journey across the Heath 6 While he stood a sound between a breathing and a moan suddenly reached his ears.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 4: 7 The Tragic Meeting of Two Old Friends 7 A long, low moan, indescribably sad, swept over the moor.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 7. The Stapletons of Merripit House 8 It came with the wind through the silence of the night, a long, deep mutter, then a rising howl, and then the sad moan in which it died away.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 9. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. ... 9 A low moan had fallen upon our ears.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 12. Death on the Moor 10 So grotesque was the attitude that I could not for the instant realize that that moan had been the passing of his soul.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 12. Death on the Moor 11 He had ceased to moan as we laid him down, and a glance showed me that for him at least our aid had come too late.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In X. The Adventure of The Greek Interpreter 12 "I just don't know what to do," she would moan.
13 She heard the upstairs door open and a low wailing moan, wrenched from the depths of agony, came to her ears.
14 Rhett turned the horse's slow feet westward from Peachtree and the wobbling wagon jounced into the rutty lane with a violence that wrenched an abruptly stifled moan from Melanie.
15 A moan was wrenched from Melanie as he half-lifted, half-dragged her from the feather tick on which she had lain so many hours.