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So after much weeping moaning and gnashing of teeth I was finally forced to suffer the indignity of sitting on Santa's lap or rather knee.
They're all getting drunk in a bar somewhere, moaning about how slack Cape Town business people are.
Business leaders and financial markets were moaning about unfocused policies and the mounting budget deficit.
But now the perennial moaning about diving has mutated into a full-blown campaign to stamp out this malevolent practice.
She had spent over an hour moaning and groaning about how stuffed a teenager's life was.
Things go from bad to worse as Nick returns to the stall moaning about being reprimanded by a security guard for handing out flyers.
The Storm boss pleaded with supporters to stop moaning and get out and support the team in their hour of need.
They were criticising a Frenchman for being French, which is like moaning that a beach is too sandy.
But hey, it's Comic Relief, I should just fork out the cash and shut up moaning.
Where so long I have heard only the brattling and moaning of the wind, what means this tenser, far-piercing sound?
The opposition are sounding off, but I guess by now they are in the habit of moaning about anything the government does.
Come next year the electorate will be browned off with both Kenny and Rabbitte moaning and will vote for the old reliables again.
I sit here up in the hills and the sea and the air are voiceful, a seething and moaning of the wind and weather, cruel to listen to.
Jackson once hinted he favored major changes, moaning about his small power forwards and zinging Rice publicly.
Only last night I arrived home to be met by a moaning groaning husband, weaving his way slowly around the house like a wounded grizzly bear.
And you dare not write off people who pen moaning letters to parish newsletters or local papers as cantankerous curmudgeons.
Every thirty seconds or so a violent convulsion would shake her and she would tense then lie backwards, wheezing and moaning.
By the end of the act, he is lurking perpetually onstage, moaning and berating by degrees.
The room was stuffy and hot, despite the chilly wind howling and moaning outside.
She knew she shouldn't be lying in her bed, moaning and complaining of her troubled mind and restless heart.
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The violent throbbings of her heart could be seen undulating the long hair as the moaning sea tosses the rockweed.
In the most pathetic way she dragged herself after me, moaning and beseeching for help.
Alessandro's face haunted him, and also the memory of Ramona's, as she lay tossing and moaning in the wretched Cahuilla hovel.
At once chopin ceased his moaning and weeping and came over to the instrument.
The moaning of the wind in the great mountain gullies and cwms rendered the scene both awful and sublime.
He bounded over the hedge, and there was Dard hanging over his axe, moaning.
At the foot of the gallows sat Sheena moaning, and swaying herself to her musical and rhythmic keening.
It was not a cheerful night, for the wind had risen, and was moaning among the she-oak trees like a million lost spirits.
Now the wind came like a wolf down the Murchison Pass, howling and moaning.
Its mate had found it and was nosing it about, while moaning in a most humanlike voice.
A blurred noise of moaning came down the passage-way from the black heart of the talayot.
Where so long I have heard the prattling and moaning of the wind, what means this tenser, far-piercing sound?
It is a moaning and wailing theme, accompanied by harmonies shifting in tonality.
What moaning of men shall arise from the Field of Mavors by the imperial city!
A woman is holding her head and moaning and threatening to faint all over the place.
Dropping her head to her upgathered knees, her body rocking stormily, moaning a little, she broke off.
Apeman was still moaning, though less fitfully, like a child that nuzzles the milk bottle, but is drifting away into sleep.
Clouds were gathering overhead, and a wailful wind made one moaning sweep through the trees behind us in the hollow.
Now and then came the moaning of Mrs. Zamboni, who was in her cabin with her brood of children.
The oak tree beside it stood quieted of its moaning and tossing.
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