Example Sentences

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Well, maybe an owl don't sing like a canary bird, but dey makes a moanful soun', an' I don't like it.

From The Bobbsey Twins on Blueberry Island by Hope, Laura Lee

Gawge gave a little moanful sawt of smile, same as to say, well, aftah all, it wasn't wuth what it cost him.

From Ole Mammy's Torment by Johnston, Annie F. (Annie Fellows)

But we will prove She had no means, except this moanful mean, This torture of herself.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by Hazlitt, William Carew

You'd 'a' tho't he wuz seekin', he used to look so moanful; but jes' le' 'im git into danger, an' he use' to be like ole times—jolly an' laughin' like when he wuz a boy.

From Short Stories for English Courses by Mikels, Rosa Mary Redding

He wuz so solumn an' moanful all de time, at leas' 'cep' when dyah wuz gwine to be a fight.

From Short Stories for English Courses by Mikels, Rosa Mary Redding