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    wail


    wailed


    wailing


    wails


    1. He cries, but the wail doesn’t rise in pitch


    2. “Hey! I’m always ready to wail ass on the drums!”


    3. amid a wail of ebrased rubber and straining chassis bolts, until, with the hills and the


    4. The ship moved with a grating noise, the wail quavered with the heaves of the rope


    5. the coruscating wail of the wounded lying in dug outs


    6. of this snow covered morning, the scratch and the wail


    7. She stood over the last one, panting, and howled a deep mournful wail


    8. The hair on their necks was still standing at the sound of the chilling wail they heard coming from Oreo


    9. the coruscating wail of the wounded


    10. There was a horrible wail, and then he heard a loud thunderous roar

    11. She felt the rough calloused fingers of someone she had come to know well in recent weeks and her shoulders immediately began to heave in a great, heartfelt wail


    12. in a great, heartfelt wail


    13. The wail of a siren


    14. Siren wail bounces off building fascias, startling late night pedestrians as they wind their drunken way home


    15. A continuous wail emitted from her tightly guarded bundle


    16. Mary grabbed at the makeshift shroud until she uncovered Becky's face, letting out a wail when she finally laid eyes on her


    17. A whining wail that faded as his breath ran out


    18. ?? Marjory began to wail


    19. I sat there rooted to the spot and horrified at what I was witnessing and then the screeching started in earnest a long drawn out wail that seemed to go on and on


    20. ' But Rosemary continued to spin and wail

    21. and then a heart-splitting wail


    22. On cue, the actress races to the center of the living room rug, pirouettes, and topples with a wail or a pitiful eek, one paw draped over her face


    23. In a blue tiled toilet washroom (crystalline covered from wail to wall) Jimmy gazed at his reflection in a half size mirror


    24. Tears ran down his cheeks from swollen eyes and he gave a tortured, high-pitched wail as he hit her again and again


    25. The baby’s face suddenly screwed up, turning red as it began to wail


    26. “Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him


    27. Therefore My love will weep and My heart will wail, forever


    28. O peoples of the earth, take heed and wail loudly! For The Face of The Almighty has waited eagerly for the time!


    29. And he could wail and weep no more,


    30. mountain with one long, drawn-out wail after another

    31. I could hear the wail of sirens closing in


    32. She heard, rather than felt, a piercing wail that came from within herself and echoed in the confines of the hold


    33. A wail of pure agony rose from deep within as her eyes searched the heavens


    34. “The village—gone!—no more!” The wail that had become words came from the headman, Zoran was sure


    35. Raw instinct drove Zoran to reach out and drag her back as he heard his own mournful wail, as if from a distance “They’re gone! They’re gone! There’s nothing we can do!”


    36. And then they suddenly heard a thin, rising wail that rapidly cascaded into a shrieking cacophony that seemed to pierce the skies


    37. A neophyte, potentially frustrated writer to a published author without falling into any of the potholes that I’d heard others wail about


    38. wail a continuous resonance within the high sweeping walls of


    39. behind them burst into life, the screech of its relentless wail


    40. siren atop the computers burst into an alarming wail, the

    41. Just then the wail of tsunami sirens echoed through the streets


    42. The raw wail of scraping metal resonated as the SOLDIER


    43. Downstairs in the shop, her father had given up trying to scream over wail of the


    44. With a deep mournful wail, he


    45. him, My son is dead, seeing he stays long; and she began to wail him and said, 5 Now I care for nothing, my son, since I have let you


    46. The voice didn’t come back and no more sound was heard except for the unmistakable wail of police sirens that were drawing closer outside


    47. She tried to gather these strange feelings that were suddenly coming over her, as a wail of sirens slowly sounded in her mind


    48. I could not sob and wail


    49. 4 Then his wife said to him My son is dead seeing he stays long; and she began to wail him and said 5 Now I care for nothing my son since I have let you go the light of my eyes


    50. A screaming wail burst forth from her as Sari flew at him, hands extended like the talons of an eagle about to strike its prey













































    1. matter how much he wished it, no matter how loudly he wailed and pleaded


    2. ’ Gilla wailed hopelessly


    3. I know, I should have made more before we broke camp," she wailed, "but there's nothing to make any with here


    4. He whirled the club around and wailed it down on one of those slashing scimitars


    5. The huge pie dish slid all the way down the table and spilled its contents all over poor little Ruby, who wailed and screeched and sobbed


    6. Professional mourning women dressed from head to toe in weeds, their wretched faces the colour of putty, snivelled and wailed with all the drama of a well-worn Greek tragedy


    7. I’ve tried and tried but it won’t work!’ he wailed


    8. The tags of the wind wailed high in the atmosphere – a lost soul vanishing as quickly as her realisation of its presence before reappearing again from another, unexpected quarter


    9. Mickey wailed wordlessly, his eyes on Sheila’s face, as they all waited to see if she would breathe again


    10. ‘Wait!’ wailed Guzkat, ‘I will have to announce

    11. “But what will they think?” he wailed


    12. But still he wailed, and kicked with his legs, and refused to be comforted


    13. The man wailed and DRAFTChapter 14 295


    14. “Oh, no,” He wailed, His voice filled with despair


    15. Near the ninth hour Jesus wailed, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?”


    16. After a moment's pause as they stopped in line, and then a quick nod to each other, the brass section wailed a long low mournful chord, gently augmented by the rhythm section and lifting it gradually as the front spots came on one by one illuminating each musician in turn, until the rich ring of brass reached its apex, brought it to a cutting halt so that in the split second of silence it seemed to hang in the room like a clarion


    17. “How could we have been so stupid?” I wailed


    18. “But I’m only sixteen” he wailed “I’m still a boy


    19. He shrieked and wailed, while numerous interested spectators chanted a weird chorus


    20. “No,” she wailed, tears streaming down her face, her bloody hands tugging at the stubborn material in desperation

    21. “What log barges?” she responded, and for that was hit across the face while from across the garage Herminia begged them to stop and wailed that she was sorry


    22. Kirsti was screaming uncontrollably, tossing her head backwards and forwards as she wailed, her cries so loud they hurt Conal’s ears


    23. Like a bolt from the blue, the little box wailed its frightful pitch, shattering his dreams


    24. “Where would I go?” She wailed, then just as suddenly bit off further complaints


    25. “I knew nothing good could come of it!” one of the usual bemoaners wailed mournfully


    26. “How could you have permitted this to happen?” she wailed after telling me the other


    27. But she slept dreamlessly, while Una lay awake and the rain fell and the wind wailed around the old gray manse


    28. “He’s an idiot! He doesn’t know what he’s dong!” Cinder wailed


    29. “No!” Orphenn wailed, but his cry was lost in the blaze’s loud crackle


    30. wailed, “There’s no time to evacuate! We must move the city to the bomb shelter!

    31. "It ain't that I don't want to," she wailed


    32. The wind wailed and sighed in the old fir-trees


    33. “I told you, I’m not an Ancient!” she wailed


    34. She screamed and wailed at the sentence and John cried and tried to go to her but was held in check by two guards


    35. She cried and cried and wailed and sobbed


    36. “They have taken my Moshe away!” She wailed as tears overflowed those dark, almond eyes, coursing down her dimpled cheeks, only to stream from her quivering chin


    37. “Oh, how awful!” wailed Myserrah who could find no way to cover his ears


    38. A young drover, in a voice husky with the emotion of sudden revulsion wailed, “What have we done?” The question hung unanswered in an uneasy silence as the others began to recoil from the ugly deed spawned by their act of desperation


    39. “They have taken my Moshe away!” She wailed as tears overflowed those dark, almond eyes,


    40. A young drover, in a voice husky with the emotion of sudden revulsion wailed, “What have we

    41. wailed, “I think he's dead! Moshe's dead! God of the Nile, he's gone!”


    42. To whom then shall I liken the people of this generation and to whom are they likee They are like the children sitting in the market which call to their companions and say We sang to you and you danced not; we wailed to you and you wept not


    43. Over the roaring of the nearby flames, Yngvild wailed, "Mother! No!"


    44. Venn lifted his spear and wailed a high wordless cry as he stumbled past Halfdan's back to stab at the foe


    45. Yngvild wailed, "He is sailing back to Eid afterwards?"


    46. "Oh, is anyone in it?" wailed Mary


    47. "Five dimes!" she wailed


    48. The service droned and wailed on, the day's hymns sounding especially whiny to him


    49. "For a walk?" Frankie wailed


    50. Her eyes scanned down to the bottom—four hundred sixty-four dollars and seventy cents! "I can't afford this!" she wailed









































    1. He is apparently wailing, screaming and crying simultaneously


    2. world, a storm brewing up with the wailing mewl of legion cats being chased by


    3. It was raining fit to flood the world, a storm brewing up with the wailing mewl of legion cats being chased by battalion dogs


    4. Still wailing, the crew hauled and bent to that rope


    5. the crashing glory, the wailing wall,


    6. As we grew closer to the top, he grew more calm and even entertained us with some humming and fine wailing whilst looking through the rear windows


    7. Then they heard a mournful wailing; Lady Maya was keening the Death Chant for her Jared


    8. The Dragons let out a wailing and keening for the pain he and Lady Maya felt


    9. I would spend countless hours wailing away at the door, punching and kicking until I tired myself out a little with the help of meds


    10. As they uttered the very first word of the ceremony the most horrendous wailing drowned out their massed voices and the air was filled with the thud and boom of bass notes and percussion

    11. wailing close to death


    12. word of the ceremony the most horrendous wailing drowned out


    13. Ozzie started wailing as the truth of the matter began to sink in


    14. Andy sat his head in his hands, wailing to himself


    15. The wailing dwindled into nothingness, and the echo of pain ended


    16. "Painful, is it? Yes, the Chinese workers used to do some wailing towards the end


    17. Emanating from all directions, a constant wailing filled his ears as if the earth itself was in torment


    18. In his mind she heard him wailing, "What have I done?"


    19. Wailing with bloodlust, the dead poured out in a raging flood


    20. It was like having twenty babies wailing, unable to help any of them

    21. This poor woman was standing on the Maroon Bridge, you know, the one that crosses over the Wailing Lake


    22. “It’s just a guess, considering a man stumbled into my camp just this last evening, bleeding and wailing, and who eventually mentioned that very name to me


    23. Maybe the paired voices of his wailing mother and fuming father had been correct in their condemnation of his decision on the evening of the 30th of Frostfall - his twenty-second birthday


    24. “Jeremiah said, „A voice was heard in Ramah, wailing and loud lamentation, Rachel weeping for her children; she refused to be consoled, because they were no more


    25. The person started wailing and I shit myself because the sound was not only scary but heart rending as well then a nurse came along and gave him something for the pain and he went quite


    26. I heard as a siren started wailing in the distance


    27. Little Jack stopped his wailing instantly


    28. And now she was singing in a wailing voice


    29. The last of the frantic women were left behind, still wailing with tears streaming down their cheeks


    30. Gratefully he sneaked past the wailing Aunt in the toilet and went to help with the homework in an upstairs bedroom

    31. Esther interjected before he got too far into his wailing


    32. She smiled wide and seductively, just as she rammed her knee into his pelvis, sending the bewildered sailor crumpling to the ground, wailing in agony


    33. She ran as fast as a hare and within seconds had her arms around her small daughter, wailing with inconsolable joy


    34. To a child, they all returned to the camp crying and wailing in sadness


    35. Once or twice, the brave Sheriff screamed “No!” and was heard wailing in sadness


    36. Much wailing, a multitude of tears


    37. The wailing of the penitent brings forth much healing,


    38. Hastily wrapping herself in a towel, Beth dashed to the outer room in the hope that Truman might be calling, but it was only Herminia, wailing and sobbing hysterically


    39. Away from the constantly wailing Herminia and washed over by a warm, soothing spray, the dreadful fear found her again


    40. When she heard the first slithering on the stairs, she began to rock, a soft wailing coming from somewhere deep inside

    41. With a long wailing cry, the Sycler collapsed on top of Payne and lay still


    42. Fresh wailing began and the weeping servant gave them a dark look


    43. Then, from the first door, another man emerged followed by a gray old man, tottering with a cane as rapidly as his legs could manage to join the wailing mass on the lawn


    44. He heard the muffled wailing of her scream in the background of his efforts


    45. Someone else screams too, and someone yells for help, and Edward is still on the floor, writhing and wailing


    46. Tori is not screaming, but wailing, the whole of her grief escaping through her mouth


    47. Mat 13:50 And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth


    48. That’s when she heard the sirens wailing behind her


    49. I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can


    50. 19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land,












































    1. Serenity filled Dane as silence took the place of Athens’ anguished wails


    2. Amongst the spearmen there were tears and wails, and the sounds seemed as dark as the night


    3. The screams and wails from their wounded grated on our nerves and in the stark white light from the flares you could see an arm that had emerged from the pile and was raised to heaven


    4. I wrung out the pain and hurt into huge chunks of tears and wails of despair


    5. “Stop!” wails Christina as Molly pulls her foot back to kick again


    6. The night was broken by wails of grief and the hushed sobs of joy


    7. The cries and wails of their daughters, sons and bloodlike friends


    8. Now, they heard the cries and wails not just of one but of several children


    9. He lay in a crumpled mound as the stunned silence was shattered by screams and wails, and the people on each side of his body scrambled over each other to get out of the now smoke- and dust-filled church


    10. Their wails echoed down to the fighters as they ascended far into the heights of Guardon’s fortress

    11. The wails of people all around him, trapped by their own fear and the gas that Tres developed, echo from one side of the stadium to the other


    12. The baby wails uncontrollably when it hears the loud bickering, making the princess backhand her servant, as she frequently does, though usually not with such force


    13. The baby wails and kicks and finally one of the servant girls, a girl who had had a baby of her own by Gautama (but the baby was considered illegitimate just because she’s a servant and not of a higher caste), comes to put a clean diaper on Rahula


    14. There was no one to be seen, but beyond the western wall there sounded cries and moaning wails that made Octavia tremble


    15. His wails of anguish could be heard from quite a distance


    16. Even fifty yards away, they could still hear Dunit’s wails, Donnowarru’s shouts, and the explosions of honoi


    17. Satisfied with the wails of pain from the people the captain told the soldier to turn off the weapon


    18. ‘He lives!’ There followed wails, beating of breasts and hair pulling as only Anatolians could perform; outperforming mothers in mourning throughout the great crescent of Levantine motherhood


    19. their children crying wails


    20. The screams were the kind of soul-churning wails that they had heard before, and did not wish to hear again

    21. level wails away at the outside of my head while the hammer-of-pain


    22. The cries and wails of the restless souls bounced off of


    23. ‘While one wails over the death of a co-religionist in a riot, the same person is indifferent to the slaughter of scores from the other community! But will it be a consolation for a woman who lost her man, that a dozen from the other faith were widowed in the same riot? Why, would ever wounds differentiate human bodies on religious lines to heal themselves? What else is religious strife but human stupidity?’


    24. “Where are you,” she wails, in an unknown, emotional tone


    25. She followed the wails, and came upon her son’s clothes, ripped and torn, stamped into the mud


    26. Although she couldn’t hear his wails, she could see his face, and she could see he was in terrible pain and agony


    27. 'Oh,' wails Vicki; and trots along blowing her nose


    28. Shock on the faces of the audience…randy and siblings nod in satisfaction, ebele’s mum rends her hair and wails, sikira and Kemi shed tears, Mrs Graham shakes her head in disbelief


    29. concerned and asked him about his continuous tears and wails


    30. and wails and it reaches him

    31. If a child or infant is left neglected, its wails will alert the community


    32. Terrifying wails cried out for help as the noise of


    33. Wails of torment continued


    34. Right on through the laughter and the wails of fake pain, I went forward with the discussion


    35. He is not spared the sounds: the pathetic wails of surrender that emanate from the man who lies beneath them, the thuds over his being, destroying him


    36. With wails of grief both spiritual entities now locked within the physical dimension, because of their blinding lust were pulled along by Tolak and hurled out the door of the house as they were now powerless to overcome what they had brought upon themselves


    37. Miserably Koke listened to the muttered prayers, wails of grief, and pained groans from those held within the hold of the ship


    38. The moans turned to wails as the storm picked the city up on a wave ridge only to drop it in the next moment into a deep trough


    39. Christina’s wails of loss behind me pierced through me with awful force, but the worst was the sight of the big Samoan crumpled over on his knees by the broken door sobbing his heart out


    40. There were smiles, frowns, screams, and wails; there were tears, laughs, upturned noses, and terrified stares

    41. They had not traversed many steps of the long main staircase when he stopped, and stared at the roof and round at the wails


    42. " If he hinted at a lecture or a concert, he was answered with a reproachful look, and a decided "Leave my children for pleasure, never!" His sleep was broken by infant wails and visions of a phantom figure pacing noiselessly to and fro in the watches of the night


    43. wails the lady turned to her attendant and said to him, "Give him whatever you


    44. The distant wails of the Grievers grew closer as the night stretched on, every minute seeming to last longer than the one before it


    45. The old paper was often left upon the wails of rooms that were supposed to be stripped before being repapered, and to conceal this the joints of the old paper were rubbed down so that they should not be perceptible through the new paper


    46. A plate crashes: a woman screams: a child wails


    47. He wails with the vehemence of the ocean


    48. to her father, had finally been put to bed by Lou, amid wails and protests


    49. The baby was crying now, real hearty wails


    50. His heart-wrenching sobs were interrupted by the sucking of air and enhanced by the mechanical translation of his wails through the voice box






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    Synonyms for "wail"

    lament lamentation plaint wail mewl pule whimper howl roar ululate yaup yawl bellow screech shout shriek cry whoop

    "wail" definitions

    a cry of sorrow and grief


    emit long loud cries


    cry weakly or softly