The two-times champion, the oldest player left standing at 33, coughed and groaned, sweating heavily and dragging her feet across the clay of Court Philippe Chatrier for nearly two hours on the hottest day of the tournament to come back from a set and 3-2 in the second, and won 10 games in a row for a 4-6, 6-0, 6-0 victory she will cherish among many great fightbacks.
"All it needs now is for Cameron to put his plus fours on and go out and shoot something," groaned my friend Hugo.
"Bull!" a woman in the crowd exclaimed, as others groaned at the national security excuse cited by more hawkish lawmakers.
"Imagine waking up in an America that's run by Newt Gingrich," groaned the strip cartoon's reporter, Rick Redfern, his head sinking into his hands.
Somewhere in Uxbridge, Boris Johnson groaned in disappointment: his ambition to be the leader of the Conservative party by the autumn may have to be put on hold.
When students of the US death penalty look back on the year 2014 they are likely to remember it as one of the most grotesque on record, punctuated by a series of botched executions in which prisoners writhed, gasped and groaned for lengthy periods on the gurney.
"That's seriously painful," he groaned.
Shelves groaned with the speeches (two volumes) and the diaries (eight volumes) in which he made his relentless, unapologetic case for change.
Hardly the traditional campaign bus on the lines of John McCain's Straight Talk Express, which groaned under the weight of well-buttered-up hacks.
THE publishers probably groaned on receiving the text of this unusual book.
As several hundred of the worst arrived in the Olimpico, fresh off buses from Prague, "Oh no," groaned a Sparta official, "here come the waterheads," the apt Czech epithet for football hooligans.
