Crossword-Solution: MOANFUL 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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.

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

Yes, I do; I'll go over and see old Gideon." He considered not the increasing rain, the dreariness of the road, the moanful wind in the tops of the trees; he felt that to be alone was to suppress a part of his happiness, that his light and talkative heart must seek a hearing for the babbling of its joy.

Again: some practised beggars plead for alms In moanful accent, and with dirty palms; Some kindly creature on the coach throws down A copper coin or two; they smile or frown, According as the gift is small or great, And then again they lazily retreat,— Repeating, most persistently, the cry To whomsoever may be passing by: Perhaps at night, some place offensive slunk, They curse the giver and get beastly drunk.

But in such moanful march they went towards the other shepherds, who in the meantime had left nothing unassayed to revive the king, but all was bootless: and their sorrow increased the more they had suffered any hopes vainly to arise.