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Example sentences for "plaint"

Lexicographically close words:
plainly; plainness; plains; plainsman; plainsmen; plaintain; plaintee; plaintes; plaintiff; plaintiffs
  1. With the thought she started up, struck the chords again, a world of plaint throbbing through the strings; surely the wizard himself would have been satisfied.

  2. As he went homeward he heard the distant, full-throated plaint of a wolf-dog.

  3. The electric car line, the city's boast, did a brisk business, its cars whirring from end to end of the street, with a jangling of bells and a moaning plaint of gearing.

  4. Strange as it may seem, the hissing of her frying-pan as she dropped into it the shining fish did not mingle unpoetically with the murmur of lagging bees overhead and the soothing plaint of the river running over its shallows below.

  5. The Plaint of King Yew's Forsaken Wife~ The fibres of the white-flowered rush Are with the white grass bound.

  6. The Plaint of a Rejected Wife~ The east wind gently blows, With cloudy skies and rain.

  7. In Praise of By-gone Simplicity A Wife Bemoans Her Husband's Absence The Earl of Shaou's Work The Plaint of King Yew's Forsaken Wife Hospitality On the Misery of Soldiers Part III.

  8. I know not if her friendlessness Did sometimes on her spirit press, But plaint she never made.

  9. But a Chacham (Rabbi), unappeased, raised a loud plaint of blasphemy.

  10. This clamorous and woeful crowd filled the courts and narrow square of the castle before the old parliament-hall with a murmur of misery and wrath, the plaint of kin and personal injury more sharp than a mere public grief.

  11. That this high Quarrel should be quenched in death As some vexed petty plaint unworthy breath; That the blood and the tears should never rise Renewed, accusing in grave judgment skies .

  12. How many birds suddenly stiffened and died With no plaint cried, The starved heart ceasing when the pale sun ceased!

  13. Then one must be ever at hand to hear the plaint of and to shelter and reconcile the runaway slave or wife or the threatened victim of oppression and superstition.

  14. Job was not, in her view, rebellious; "his plaint was a relief to his own spirit, and an appeal for sympathy.

  15. The music was familiar to Beth and it stirred her always because it was this gorgeous plaint of hope and despair that had at the very first sounded depths in her own self the existence of which she had never even dreamed.

  16. It was no girl who sang now, but a woman who had learned the meaning of the song, the plaint of birds once joyous, of woodland flowers once gay--at the memory of a spring that was no more.

  17. The cast of his verse is lyric and subjective; and for all its wistfulness and plaint is sometimes shrill with the shrillness of a soul raw and too sensitive about herself.

  18. The first verses are in curious parallel to Tchekov’s remarkable plaint about his own people and “the Russian disease” as he calls their failing: “Why do we tire so soon?

  19. Come to the fields where bluebells shiver, Hear cuckoo's carol, or plaint of dove; Come for a row on the silent river; Come to the meadows and learn to love!

  20. Pour out your praise or plaint Meekly and duly; I will not enter there, To sully your pure prayer With thoughts unruly.

  21. At Charleston a similar plaint was voiced by L.

  22. On the journey up the Mississippi the plaint heard by this traveler from fellow passengers who lived at Natchitoches, was that they could not get enough boats to bring the cotton down the Red.

  23. In the forefront could be distinguished a drowsy waking plaint passing on, and far off the growth of a multiple clamour, marching and expanding.

  24. Abbot makes plaint unjustly, for they say that they have an alderman and a gild merchant in the aforesaid town and are free burgesses, etc.

  25. And if a plaint shall have arisen between Christian and Jew, he who shall have appealed the other shall have witnesses for the deraignment of his plaint, to wit, a lawful Christian and a lawful Jew.

  26. And if the Jew shall have a writ touching his plaint, his writ shall be his witness; and if a Christian shall have a plaint against a Jew, it shall be judged by the Jew's peers.


  27. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plaint" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    allegation; arraignment; bawl; blame; charge; complaint; count; cry; denunciation; grievance; groan; howl; implication; imputation; indictment; information; innuendo; insinuation; keen; lament; lawsuit; moan; murmur; mutter; outcry; plaint; prosecution; reproach; scream; sob; suit; taxing; tirade; wail; whimper; whine; yawp; yowl