"Wail" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and then his eye fell on her crape trimmings. He touched her sleeve, and made a low wail. ...
— The Three Brides • Charlotte M. Yonge
... gave one look—and every sound stopped. The Orchestra died away in a discordant wail; the guests stopped, with glasses raised half way to their lips; the waiters stood as if petrified. Old Bohemia had seen many strange sights in its career; but no stranger cavalcade had ever marched in through its portals than ...
— Continuous Vaudeville • Will M. Cressy
... of these mournful melodies have been made, and these lorn lyrists have been induced to glance over it, it seems to us that they must have received it with inextinguishable laughter. Each delicate little wail when taken by itself was not so bad, but the united wail of this band of broken-hearted singers would have produced, instead of tears, laughter both long and deep. This doleful period lasted long after Irving had begun to write in a different vein, ...
— Home Life of Great Authors • Hattie Tyng Griswold
... dismal Jeremiahs wail Of Bolshevists within our gates, And, though the Master of The M**l In sad seclusion vegetates, The rising tide of gloom recoils Once the inspiring news is known That mines are good in spots, and oils ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Feb. 26, 1919 • Various
... all that want, and all that wail, Our pity shall be given, And when this life of love shall fail, We'll love ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith • Oliver Goldsmith
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