moanings

Down the long corridors the wind mysteriously whispered, rising in inarticulate moanings and woeful sighs, as of souls in pain.

All was quiet and peaceable, says a local paper, and nothing heard but the moanings of the friends of the culprits.

From time to time the captives noisily clank their chains and emit lamentable moanings.

The moanings and roarings emitted by this matchless stream in its mad career may be heard in places half a mile.

Dreadful moanings, as of some one in intense agony, were heard from without, whilst a sense of horror seized upon all within.