The taxi driver looked at me, looked at the elephant and let out a low moan of terror.
But we're a club that always faces adversity and we don't moan about it.
The people who moan about potholes on Johannesburg's radio phone-in programmes have no sense of perspective.
Instead, I stayed in bed with my eyes closed, forcing myself not to moan.
The bitch-and-moan club has millions of members, yet creates nothing but anger and frustration.
Petitioning-tribes moan that they have to send mountains of ancient documents to the bureau.
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Right away it sighed and lost the troubled look, but then it gave a moan.
But if these were effective, why would employees feel the need to moan on Facebook?
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Which is too bad for them, for though companies may moan, consumers love flat fees.
People moan about the need for marketing, but more and more authors are asked to do marketing.
Speed freaks moan that's still only half as fast as typical broadband connections used in the home.
But while others moan from the sidelines, let's applaud their sheer optimism in giving it a go.
It gives its hand-picked representatives a bit of leeway to moan about house prices, or even corruption.
Their rules, moan the banks, have forced them to report enormous losses, and it's just not fair.
He would often moan to his friends about the difficulties of balancing his day job and his writing.
The foghorns that keep sailors and beach house residents up at night moan at a measly 105 decibels.
These sound boring but could save billions, which is one reason so many health-care firms moan about them.
So what's there to moan about, fellas -- we all trust Google to do the right thing, right?
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Facebook addicts will bitch and moan, non-facebook addicts will be annoyed that facebook addicts are only talking about facebook.
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"When supermarkets raise fees, funds moan and groan and protest, but most wind up going along, " says consultant Bobroff.
So complained Francis Atterbury, the Bishop of Rochester, in a 1714 moan about the Palatine refugees from the Rhineland.
Then there's the steady, maddening aero moan as the G-wagon beats a square hole in the air going down a highway.
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Unless Internet and catalog purchases are taxed, the states and localities will have to raise income and property taxes, pols moan.
We moan about libraries while Ireland debates the existence of entire hospitals.
Even the clumsy stealth of jerking off was a matter for shared joking the unsuppressed moan, the vibrating sheet glimpsed in the dawn light.
"And then she burst out with this awful sound, a moan, a scream of complete and utter agony, " said her mother, Jessica Pasley.
It's very easy to moan about giving from the comfort of your own laptop, having had the luck to be born in the West.
The president can moan about the Supreme Court if he likes, but he can't campaign for a law they have ruled to be unconstitutional.
Let me reassure you at this point that this isn't some sort of extended traffic bulletin or Clarkson-esque moan - but the context is important.
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