From behind his wailful voice the gentle knocking was heard running on.    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

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Then they sang a most wailful tune, and John prayed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Falconer] Reference

Ever-wailful trees bemoaning him, a bruised purple cyclamen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference

Mr. Durance had prophesied a wailful end ever to the carol of Optimists!.    From Wordnik.com.  [One of Our Conquerors — Complete] Reference

A wailful host were the wives of his raftsmen widowed there by her watery music!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Short Works of George Meredith] Reference

She, fhe alone, amid the wailful train Of captive maids, affign'd to Henry's care.    From Wordnik.com.  [The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical] Reference

The battle was ending without even the poor pomp and circumstance of torn banners and wailful music.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thomas Wingfold, Curate V3] Reference

Her very soul seemed brooding over the dead upon Flodden field, as she sang this most wailful of melodies -- this embodiment of.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Elginbrod] Reference

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With wailful escort, let them hither come.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seven against Thebes] Reference

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She hears his wailful prayer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference

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Thy Berenicè cross the wailful waves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theocritus, translated into English Verse] Reference

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By wailful sonnets, whose composed rhymes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Gentlemen of Verona The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.]] Reference

Like wailful widdowes hangen their crags.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shepheardes Calendar] Reference

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In wailful pathos o'er its vanish'd dream.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Death of Saul and other Eisteddfod Prize Poems and Miscellaneous Verses] Reference

As forced its wailful utterance into song.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne,] Reference

Float wild and wailful voices of farewell.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne,] Reference

By wailful sonnets, whose composed rimes72.    From Wordnik.com.  [Act III. Scene II. The Two Gentlemen of Verona] Reference

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Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year] Reference

And one false note cast wailful to the insane.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference

All at once a wailful sound arose in his head.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Falconer] Reference

Her power and all her wailful realm o'erthrew.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Aeneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor] Reference

Earth will not hear her children's wailful bands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference

The wailful cries of “La Ilah illa.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Caliph Vathek] Reference