Howled
[hauld]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Howl
Edited by Jason
Examples
- The wind howled dismally all night, and strange cracking and groaning noises sounded here, there, and everywhere in the empty house. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Stop that d---- thing, George howled out in a fury from the sofa. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- At all which moral reflections, Master Bardell howled the louder. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Outside the wind howled down Baker Street, while the rain beat fiercely against the windows. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- England has howled savagely against this man, uncle, and she will one day roar exultingly over him. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- To and fro he walked, while the flakes fell faster; and the wind, which at first had but moaned, pitifully howled. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Anyhow, Mr. Wopsle's Roman nose so aggravated me, during the recital of my misdemeanours, that I should have liked to pull it until he howled. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The wind howled and screamed at the windows. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Well, the dogs bayed and howled, and we rode and scampered, and finally we started him. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The horde evidently guessed that we had no hearts to fight each other and so they howled in rage as neither of us placed a fatal thrust. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- At one time he raved and blasphemed; and at another howled and tore his hair. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
Edited by Jason