Groans Sentence Examples

The pitiful groans from all sides and the torturing pain in his thigh, stomach, and back distracted him.

Only among the back rows of the people, who were all pressing toward the one spot, could sighs, groans, and the shuffling of feet be heard.

The shed became semidark, and the sharp rattle of the drums on two sides drowned the sick man's groans.

The shrieks of the women, and the groans of the dying, rendered the whole a scene of horror almost inconceivable.

It is a parade of wild animals Our world is now a pitiful weakling It groans with the burden of an elephant corpse !

Your wild goose chases will sometimes illicit groans, but thankfully it isn't too bad.

Visitors to each cemetery report groans, sighs and banging sounds from within the aboveground crypts, while those nearing Marie Laveau's tomb snap photos of orbs, apparitions, and strange mists rising from her grave.

Other park rangers and visitors tell tales of the apparition appearing on dark nights always accompanied by cries and groans.

This included voices for R2-D2 and Chewbacca, the hum and hiss of lightsabers, the squeaks and groans of machinery, and the whistling screech of ships zooming through space.

Groans and curses rose from the grassy area around the blazing facility.

Passing near Mount Caucasus, they heard the groans of Prometheus and the flapping of the wings of the eagle which gnawed his liver.

He allowed his supporters to suggest the offer of the regal title by putting in circulation an oracle according to which it was destined for a king of Rome to subdue the Parthians, and when at the Lupercalia (15th January 44 B.C.) Antony set the diadem on his head he rejected the offer half-heartedly on account of the groans of the people.

The supposition that the tree was the source of Christ's crown of thorns gave rise doubtless to the tradition current among the French peasantry that it utters groans and cries on Good Friday, and probably also to the old popular superstition in Great Britain and Ireland that ill-luck attended the uprooting of hawthorns.

The history, therefore, falls into recurring cycles, each of which begins with religious corruption, followed by chastisement, which continues until Yahweh, in answer to the groans of his oppressed people, raises up a "judge" to deliver Israel, and recall them to the true faith.

There's no mysterious footsteps in the night, no groans or ectoplasmic blood forming on the floors.

The air tore into his lungs and issued again in deep groans which even by clenching his teeth he could not stop.

He had the grunts, the groans, the yelps, the breath of a goat.

She unlocked huge, studded, oak doors, pushing them open to the accompaniment of perfect B movie groans from the rusty hinges.

He also showed that he hadn't lost his knack for gentle humor that elicits laughter and groans in equal measure.

It is a parade of wild animals Our world is now a pitiful weakling It groans with the burden of an elephant corpse!

Then a woman's loud groans and the high-pitched whine of a drill filled the corridor.

From him he learned that amid the rocks was a chasm communicating with purgatory, from which rose perpetually the groans of tortured souls, the hermit asserting that he had also heard the demons complaining of the efficacy of the prayers of the faithful, and especially of the monks of Cluny, in rescuing their victims. On returning home the pilgrim hastened to inform the abbot of Cluny, who forthwith set apart the 2nd of November as a day of intercession on the part of his community for all the souls in purgatory.

The animal groaned with pain, and Helen, perceiving his groans, was filled with pity.

Amid the general rumble, the groans and voices of the wounded were more distinctly heard than any other sound in the darkness of the night.

The gloom that enveloped the army was filled with their groans, which seemed to melt into one with the darkness of the night.

Several wounded men passed along the road, and words of abuse, screams, and groans mingled in a general hubbub, then the firing died down.

The wounded crept together in twos and threes and one could hear their distressing screams and groans, sometimes feigned--or so it seemed to Rostov.

The assembled nobles all took off their uniforms and settled down again in their homes and clubs, and not without some groans gave orders to their stewards about the enrollment, feeling amazed themselves at what they had done.

Several times, waking up, she heard his groans and muttering, the creak of his bed, and the steps of Tikhon and the doctor when they turned him over.

From the tents came now loud angry cries and now plaintive groans.

Toward the end of the battle of Borodino, Pierre, having run down from Raevski's battery a second time, made his way through a gully to Knyazkovo with a crowd of soldiers, reached the dressing station, and seeing blood and hearing cries and groans hurried on, still entangled in the crowds of soldiers.

Scarcely had Pierre laid his head on the pillow before he felt himself falling asleep, but suddenly, almost with the distinctness of reality, he heard the boom, boom, boom of firing, the thud of projectiles, groans and cries, and smelled blood and powder, and a feeling of horror and dread of death seized him.

The execution was a military and not a national act, and at the last scene on the scaffold the triumphant shouts of the soldiery could not overwhelm the groans and sobs raised by the populace.