The usual plaint is the health care American style is very expensive, which is a simple fact.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Insurance Status and Mortality] Reference

But plaint is not pleasant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

Never again plaint that your voice is thin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Little Lady of the Big House, by Jack London] Reference

She heaved a gentle sigh that was almost a plaint.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

I breathe no selfish plaint, no faithless chiding.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Treasury of American Songs and Lyrics] Reference

And fills the well-known mountains with his plaint.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II] Reference

Bermondsey and Whitechapel upraise a piteous plaint.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, February 6, 1892] Reference

Hold back my best treasure, with plaint or with sigh?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beechenbrook A Rhyme of the War] Reference

Smiteth the ear; -- the moan, the plaint, the sighing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems of the Heart and Home] Reference

This was the plaint that was often on Florentin's lips.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

He uttered no plaint, and made no allusion to the irons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference

While the plaint of the helpless, the wail of the weak.    From Wordnik.com.  [War Poetry of the South] Reference

He might have made plaint, and had too long a tongue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2] Reference

The plaint of a high-flying gull drifted down to the boy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where the Sun Swings North] Reference

Joseph Kashkarin had many a plaint for his unfortunate lot.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Genius] Reference

We hear the same plaint from Jonathan Edwards a century later.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Coast Road From Boston to Plymouth] Reference

From the girl's hand she tore the answer to the lover's plaint.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2] Reference

Even the plaint of the screech-owl has a tone of human sympathy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book] Reference

This plaint is repeated thrice and is followed by an invocation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buddhism and Buddhists in China] Reference

Before the other could let out a "Madonna!" she began her plaint.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference

Raymond had heard the same plaint from Albert, and was less pleased.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Stairs] Reference

They wist not to whom they should make plaint of their mighty wounds.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nibelungenlied] Reference

The remark was rather a plaint, and Cora came over very close to Helka.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Motor Girls Through New England or, Held by the Gypsies] Reference

In that instant, with the plaint of the Norse mother in my ears, I knew.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diane of the Green Van] Reference

I seem to hear the Atlantic moaning on our shores with the plaint of the dying.    From Wordnik.com.  [Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy] Reference

Mrs. Lionel Phillips, as the wife of an Uitlander, has also written her plaint.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899] Reference

He caressed words until they sang for him the one plaint that he asked of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference

"You are not doing the right thing by me" -- such might have seemed his plaint.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Stairs] Reference

Its plaint was answered from the water as a second of its kind wallowed ashore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Key Out of Time] Reference

Who cuts the innocent throat of the calf, and hears unmoved its mournful plaint!.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet with Vegetable Recipes] Reference

There was not much philosophy in him today, not much of anything but a plaint and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trail's End] Reference

An acute observer might have imagined that the passionate plaint was directed at him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crimson Blind] Reference

The plural is in the grand manner, giving the lie to Cashel Byron's pathetic plaint.    From Wordnik.com.  [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference

From almost all sections of the country comes the plaint that the song birds are fast disappearing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bird Day; How to prepare for it] Reference