Barking

Examples

• A dim light shone at intervals from some bed-room window; and the hoarse barking of dogs occasionally broke the silence of the night. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Her cross-grained pet greyhound was in the room, and I fully expected a barking and snapping reception. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• While the dogs are yet barking and howling--there is one dog howling like a demon--the church-clocks, as if they were startled too, begin to strike. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• This goes down your throat, and portions of it lodge by the way, and produce a tickling aggravation that keeps you barking and coughing for an hour. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• He was mortally jealous of me, and persisted in barking at me. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The dog recommenced barking furiously. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The moment he pulled the bell a deep loud barking assailed him from within the wall. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.

Edited by Dinah