The wind wailed and the rain streamed down.
She let out a loud, doleful wail.
The wrench wouldn’t budge, even though Tony was just wailing on it with a big old sledge hammer.
'For as soon as I heard Tewkesbury tell of screams and wailings in the air, and no one to be seen,' said Elzevir, 'I guessed that some poor soul had got shut in the vault, and was there crying for his life.