Moan and groan

Usage examples of carp.

The Aston Martin is a magnificent machine but not particularly renowned for the quietness of its engine: there were carping critics who occasionally maintained that the engines for the David Brown tractor division found their way into the wrong machines.

He imitated a carp also, and I twisted over him and back into the airlock, clutching for the safety bar.

There was every reason for her to believe she would have a baby every couple of years, just like her mother, and she constantly carped about having no help, though the Burrs did own a slave named Harry.

I can hardly hear my own thoughtspicking, carping, criticizing, arguingoh, Titus, how they argue!

Cicero, calling on them, found Servilia convinced that she still possessed enough power in the Senate to have the decision reversed, Cassius in the mood for war, Brutus utterly despondent, Porcia carping and nagging as usual, and Tertulla in the depths of despair because she had lost her baby.

Back in the borough Reise had treated her and Cashel exactly as he treated anyone else: with brusque, carping honesty.

Most would like to emigrate, after hearing glowing reports from the Maltese Labour Carps and other crews from abroad of higher pay outside Malta.

Sinanju, the carp and the tuna and the corbina, understood that they were food.

But at last he came to a place where the carp and the corbina swam in promising numbers.

Bamboohatted Kim returned to the village forlorn of countenance, wearing his empty hat instead of carrying it before him laden with carp and corbina, he was jeered by the lazy ones, including the apple-cheeked wench.

Beneath the shimmery surface was a dull bog in which one big-eyed carp named Warner peddled goldbricks to passing rubes.

Wesley Karpas had in mind when he changed his name to Carp and sought to rise in society, this decrepit and rundown house, this money-sucking semifailure of a son.

The smell of lake carp and whitefish, onions, eggs, matzoh meal, salt and pepper was pungent.

By Mydas, who obtained of Bacchus, that all things which he touched might be gold, is carped the foul sin of avarice.

They could make no objection, wronged as they felt themselves to be, when Sister Mary Philomel organized them into after-school work details, to clean the fishbowl her fat carp swam in, to cut out turkeys and shamrocks and lilies green and white to festoon her walls at the proper seasons, not even when she took it on herself to have them mop their bedroom floors and remake their beds, like prison trusties.