Howling

Examples

• It is unlucky to travel where your path is crossed by a monk, a hare, or a howling dog, until you have eaten your next meal. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• From within the city neither shout nor cry, nor aught except the casual howling of a dog, broke the noon-day stillness. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The wind was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing against the windows. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• A howling swarm of beggars followed us--surrounded us --almost headed us off. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• As he dropped to the ground to force his way into the tree, the whole howling pack of hideous devils hurled themselves upon me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The pattering rain and howling wind alone replied to her. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• 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.
• They let loose two immense bloodhounds at night, which all last night were yelling and howling at the moon. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It came howling down the chimney in our room! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The inner guards went down beneath howling mobs, and the cages vomited forth their inmates hot with the lust to kill. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• A large dog has been woke, apparently by the sound of the bell, and is howling and yawning drearily, somewhere round a corner. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• On the evening of the first day out from Goliad we heard the most unearthly howling of wolves, directly in our front. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Emmy's maid heard him howling again during the night and brought him some preserved apricots to console him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• A howling corner in the winter time, a dusty corner in the summer time, an undesirable corner at the best of times. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Often had Moore gazed with a brilliant countenance over howling crowds from a hostile hustings. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The howlings and lamentations of a dog produce a sensible concern in his fellows. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.

Editor: Upton