moanful

If you did you'll understand, why I'm singing sad moanful songs

Bessie Smith Lyrics 2009

We always knew when nesting season began, because that was the only time they made a peep ... an eerie, echoing moanful chrip that signals their approach to the nest.

The Ladder-Day Doves, Rick and I 2007

He wuz so solumn an 'moanful all de time, at leas' 'cep' when dyah wuz gwine to be

Short Stories for English Courses Rosa Mary Redding [Editor] Mikels

If you did you'll understand, why I'm singing sad moanful songs

Frosty Morning 1924

He wuz so solumn an 'moanful all de time, at leas' 'cep' when dyah wuz gwine to be a fight.

Marse Chan; A Tale of Old Virginia 1881

You'd 'a' tho't he wuz seekin ', he used to look so moanful; but jes' le '' im git into danger, an 'he use' to be like ole times -- jolly an 'laughin' like when he wuz a boy.

Marse Chan; A Tale of Old Virginia 1881

The fquirrel being upon the point of running into the make's mouth, the fpectators have not been able to let it come to that pitch, but killed the fnake, and as foon as it had got a mortal blow, the fquirrel or bird deftined for deftruction, flew away, and left off their moanful note, as if they had broke loole from a net.

Travels into North America : containing its natural history, and a circumstantial account of its plantations and agriculture in general, with the civil, ecclesiastical and commercial state of the country, the manners of the inhabitants, and several curious and important remarks on various subjects 1770

When the wind of the twilight sighed in gusts through its moanful crowd of fluttered leaves; or when the wind of the winter was tormenting the ancient haggard boughs, and the trees looked as if they were weary of the world, and longing after the garden of God; yet more when the snow lay heavy upon their branches, sorely trying their aged strength to support its oppression, and giving the onlooker a vague sense of what the world would be if God were gone from it -- then the old avenue was a place from which one with more imagination than courage would be ready to haste away, and seek instead the abodes of men.

Donal Grant, by George MacDonald George MacDonald 1864

'a' tho't he wuz seekin ', he used to look so moanful; but jes' le '

Short Stories for English Courses Rosa Mary Redding [Editor] Mikels

"Well, maybe an owl don't sing like a canary bird, but dey makes a moanful soun ', an' I don't like it.

The Bobbsey Twins on Blueberry Island Laura Lee Hope