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Usage examples of groaning.

To prevent such a consummation, in conclusion, he urged the necessity of redressing the grievances, and of adopting some remedy to the deplorable distresses under which the Irish people were groaning.

The long Aenean stride readily matched wagons bumping and groaning over roadless wrinkled hills.

BY this time, the English Ambassage Extraordinary, three hundred strong, with its aching diplomacy and its groaning digestions, with its cliques, its amateurs, its professionals and with the Earl and Countess of Lennox, was already at Orleans, not much more than two hundred miles away.

Then remembering what had befallen him, and his head beating as though it would split asunder, he shut his eyes again, contriving with great effort to keep himself from groaning aloud, and wondering as to what sort of pirates these could be, who would first knock a man in the head so terrible a blow as that which he had suffered, and then take such care to fetch him back to life again, and to make him easy and comfortable.

Groaning, Cade gingerly lowered himself to one knee so he could unzip the bag and pull a sawed-off shotgun out of its thick nest of money.

I passed him on the road yestereen mounted like a cadger and groaning like an auld wife.

The Capataz had questioned her, and after hearing her broken and groaning tale had advised her to go and look amongst the wounded in the patio of the Casa Gould.

Better to be a nobody and owe nobody than a somebody groaning under the cliental obligations of a massive loan.

Suddenly the groaning ceased, and I found myself and the doolie planted on the ground.

A poor Dyspepsy may talk as he will, but he is the one who never gets sympathy, or experiences compassion: and it is he whose groaning petitions for charity do at last rout that Christian virtue.

Buster and Bingo were puzzled and distressed to see Fatty and Ern rolling on the floor, groaning as their cords seemed to get tighter and tighter.

The man who could best tell her was heard groaning: those objects were obviously ferial, not marital, equipment.

And of such poor mettle are we that her resentment against that groaning mass of fopperies and wheals sent a thrill of pleasure through me.

Hal Samdu, cool, composed Jay Kalam, wheezing, groaning Giles Habibula.

The duke fetched up on his back, holding his side with his remaining hand and groaning.