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Groaning in sentence

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In fact the groaning was becoming more and more distinct.
He could eat, and all the same he was groaning with torment.
Struck in the back as he was entreating his mates, he had fallen on to his knees, and slipping on to one hip he was groaning on the ground with eyes still full of tears.
He refused to talk in the presence of some captains who were listening, and led his uncle ten metres away, and not thinking this far enough, drew still farther back; then, in a low whisper, he at last told of the outrage, the torn and sawn planks, the pit bleeding at the neck and groaning.
Then it was the low square tower, where the pumping-engine was groaning, which fell on its face like a man mown down by a bullet.
It was no longer the meadows, the odour of the grass, the song of larks, the great yellow sun; it was the fallen, inundated mine, the stinking gloom, the melancholy dripping of this cellar where they had been groaning for so many days.
Comfortably ensconced in an armchair which he had made them push up close to the fire, the Neapolitan was groaning aloud and talking more, by himself, than the score of German peasants who were gathered round him open-mouthed.
The student carried the woman up these steps, and after the exertions of running with her he was soon groaning and moving very slowly.
Hardly had the two women pushed the chest of drawers, groaning, out of the room than Gregor poked his head out from under the couch to see what he could do about it.
The white boy, who belonged to the house, brought up the rear, groaning under a load of sundry dishes of vegetables, that the cook, by way of climax, had unwittingly heaped on him.
Caesar, ride forward, I say, and obtain the book as directed; thy master is groaning in spirit even now for the want of it."
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 despotisms; for such as have the light and the good tidings, and yet have not eyes to see nor ears to hear withal; for the heathen in the far islands of the sea; and closed with a supplication that the words he was about to speak might find grace and favor, and be as seed sown in fertile ground, yielding in time a grateful harvest of good.
However, it seemed well worth while to chance it, so he fell to groaning with considerable spirit.
Sid yawned, stretched, then brought himself up on his elbow with a snort, and began to stare at Tom.Tom went on groaning.
"There, there, now, don't begin that groaning again.
Well, I was never one to sit groaning over a cracked pot.
As soon as it began to toll, a dismal groaning and crying was heard from the condemned hole, where there lay six poor souls who were to be executed that day, some from one crime, some for another, and two of them for murder.
'Well, and don't you think, old feller,' remonstrated Mr. Weller, 'that if you let your master take in this here young lady, you're a precious rascal?''I know that,' said Job Trotter, turning upon his companion a countenance of deep contrition, and groaning slightly, 'I know that, and that's what it is that preys upon my mind.
Mr. Winkle did leave the box, and rushed with delirious haste to the George and Vulture, where he was discovered some hours after, by the waiter, groaning in a hollow and dismal manner, with his head buried beneath the sofa cushions.
But Fibby lay on his side groaning piteously, hamstrung and dying.
Ah, my young friend," added the curate, groaning, "do not regret the devil, I implore you!"D’Artagnan felt himself bewildered.
Then was heard a great noise of fagots being removed and of the groaning of posts; these were the counterscarps and bastions of Athos, which the besieged himself demolished.
"Thanks, madame!" said Porthos, "but I don’t like to abuse your kindness; besides, I must think of my outfit!""That’s true," said the procurator’s wife, groaning, "that unfortunate outfit!""Alas, yes," said Porthos, "it is so."
That would have been enough for me, that one glimpse of it, and the sound of the night wind sighing and groaning among the branches.
Faster and faster yet they raced, the hoofs rattling like castanets, the yellow manes flying, the wheels buzzing, and every joint and rivet creaking and groaning, while the curricle swung and swayed until I found myself clutching to the side-rail.
"Not a jot I," returned Cedric; "I have never been wont to study either how to take or how to hold out those abodes of tyrannic power, which the Normans have erected in this groaning land.
"My brother Sheva," he said, groaning deeply, "hath the key of my warehouses."
On arriving in the lofty bell chamber, Quasimodo gazed for some time at the six bells and shook his head sadly, as though groaning over some foreign element which had interposed itself in his heart between them and him.
Dying men, half consumed and groaning with anguish, could be seen writhing there.
If despair was heard groaning again in his soul, he recalled that night, and that holy gray face raised to heaven in prayer.
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