It was best to hear them during the afternoon service in the cathedral, when the singing of the choir and throbbing and pealing of the organ which filled the vast interior was heard outside, subdued by the walls through which it passed, and was like a beautiful mist or atmosphere of sound pervading and enveloping the great building; and when the Plaining of the doves, owing to the rhythmic flow of the notes and their human characters, seemed to harmonize with and be a part of that sacred music.
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson
It boots thee not to be compassionate, After our sentence, Plaining comes too late Mow.
"Richard-II"
Shakespeare, William
He felt like a mother withholding something injurious from the foolish wish of her Plaining child.
"Sylvia's Lovers -- Complete"
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell