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Definition of Grone
1. groan [v GRONED, GRONING, GRONES] - See also: groan
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grone
Literary usage of Grone
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Spectator by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1753)
"... Shade: With many a weary Step, and many a grone, Up the high Hill he heaves
a huge round Stone: The huge round Stone, ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1862)
"The tune assigned to '. is " Fortune," and it begins — "Well may I grone and
sighe For ray most cruell crime : My life hath been awry, : afterwards notices ..."
3. Works of the Camden Society by Camden Society (Great Britain), Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) (1875)
"The reason why I have not been soe constant in writeing to you as I could wish
is, that I grone under the presse. I have been ashamed hitherto to tell you ..."
4. The Historical Works of Sir James Balfour by James Balfour (1824)
"... and with a gri- wous grone, sayes, Scotland did come with a lasse, and it will
goe with one, ..."