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  • Wailed Boyslayer, one groupie on the official "Buffy" Web site, "How could you WB guys let such a great show slip through your fingers and let it go to a loser network that only has sci-fi shows?"

    Rumble In The Media Jungle 2007

  • Wailed for many moons her absence, wailed for many moons their prayer,

    Flint and Feather E. Pauline Johnson 1887

  • Wailed over by the trade winds, mourned by lamenting sea-birds, once every year the tide visited its lost dead and left them wet with its tears.

    The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales Bret Harte 1869

  • "It seems that everyone in this beastly country is a crook", Wailed the unhappy Tartarin.

    Tartarin De Tarascon Alphonse Daudet 1868

  • Wailed for her mother aloud: but the wail of the wind only answered.

    Andromeda and Other Poems Charles Kingsley 1847

  • Wailed "NO no no nooo aneeee stopppppp" halfway through at Tony & Dee.

    Kottu 2008

  • Wailed "NO no no nooo aneeee stopppppp" halfway through at Tony & Dee.

    Kottu 2008

  • Wailed my sister, almost vengefully: “You said you were going to put your head in the oven, you hung up, turned off your cell phone … (Beat.) “I’m getting in my car right now and driving to L.A.!”

    On Being a Bad Mother 2009

  • Wailed my sister, almost vengefully: “You said you were going to put your head in the oven, you hung up, turned off your cell phone … (Beat.) “I’m getting in my car right now and driving to L.A.!”

    On Being a Bad Mother 2009

  • Wailed about needing mercy from a cold-hearted cheatin’ woman.

    Black Dust Mambo Adrian Phoenix 2010

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