“There are huge expansions going on in Western Australia and the employment pages are groaning with ads from companies like ours. Miners are helping out as the jobs market softens a bit elsewhere.”
Leo Kipfstuhl
“Even trees do not die without a groan”
Henry David Thoreau
“[the whale groans] Dory: Okay, he either said, "move to the back of the throat," or he "wants a root beer float".”
Finding Nemo
“Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels, they rise, they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans.”
William Blake
“The cannon thunders - limbs fly in all directions - one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice - it's Humanity in search of happiness”
Charles Baudelaire
“'While there is life, there's hope,' he cried; 'Then why such haste?' so groaned and died”
John Gay
“The sigh, the groan of a broken heart, will soon go through the ceiling up to heaven, aye, into the very bosom of God.”
Charles Simeon