The single plaintive noise gave him power to continue.

"On ship," she said, and suddenly made a little moaning plaintive noise.

Music swirled around Selim, the sound an irritating, plaintive, distracting noise.

He roade plaintive little noises and at last murmured something.

He made a plaintive noise and licked at her neck.

We make plaintive, querulous noises, look at one another, and cluster close together.

The web-fingered downsider made a plaintive noise, beneath his electrical tape, but Miles took it more for protest than explanation.

Mungo Madoc sank into his chair and made plaintive groaning noises.

Halfway up the unwooded part of the hill, it stopped and made plaintive, high-pitched noises.

It was a strange, plaintive noise, like a peculiar melody with neither beginning nor end.