...With a piteous wail of terror, Jane Clayton swooned, while, from theconcealment of a nearby bush, Numa, the lion, eyed the pair hungrilyand licked his chops...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar」
...For a moment he seemed paralyzed by anger, and then with a loudshriek that rose into an uncanny wail, he drew his curved saberand sprang toward the Englishman...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「Tarzan the Untamed」
...It is curiousthat this Arabic term agrees with, or is like, ourword wail (Ar...
James Richardson 「Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2」
...He paused until he heard the faint wail of a child...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「Darkwater」
...She sat dreaming of it here with rows of dark faces before her, and the singsong wail of a little black reader with his head aslant and his patched kneepants...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「The Quest of the Silver Fleece」
...To his ears came a far-off muffled wail;—a wail which held more thanunhappiness;—a wail which vibrated with real terror...
Albert Payson Terhune 「Further Adventures of Lad」
...Then one, which seemed to be the conductor, raised his snout to the sky, and uttered a long, low, melancholy wail...
R.M. Ballantyne 「The Dog Crusoe and his Master」
...But as Dick lay quite still and motionless, he went forward with a look of alarm; snuffed him once or twice and whined piteously; then he raised his nose in the air and uttered a long melancholy wail...
R.M. Ballantyne 「The Dog Crusoe and his Master」
...He saw themclearly as they came across the open—a new kind of monster of theforests! With a final wail he darted back into the deep shadows of thetrees...
James Oliver Curwood 「Baree, Son of Kazan」
...No one who hears the wail of a frightened sandpiper begging protectionfor her young can sit unmoved...
Edith M. Patch 「Bird Stories」
...It is the desperate wail of the Cicada,surprised in his quietude by the Green Grasshopper, that ardentnocturnal huntress, who springs upon him, grips him in the side, opensand ransacks his abdomen...
J. H. Fabre 「The Wonders of Instinct」
...The plover chuckles while he lingersat the bounteous feast of grasshoppers,but never pierces the August air withthe long wail that proclaimed his springtimearrival...
Rowland E. Robinson 「In New England Fields and Woods」
...Thenthe heaven melts with tenderness for the death of the bird;“it wails for it by raining, wailing a funeral wail...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...Then they laid the decapitated dummy down and covered it over, andthe women began to mourn and wail...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...He laid down on his face as if dead and the alan who saw him began to wail, for they thought he was dead...
Fay-Cooper Cole 「Traditions of the Tinguian: A Study in Philippine Folk-Lore」
...When a death occurs the people in the hut at oncebegin to wail, then the people in the neighbouring hutsjoin in and soon the whole village is wailing...
A. F. R. Wollaston 「Pygmies and Papuans」
...Such a wail was known in old French as a "regret", a word which has lost its specific meaning in English...
Chretien DeTroyes 「Four Arthurian Romances」
...It was a wail of unreasoningterror, of the dread of exposure, of the fear that he would fail tocollect the fortune now so nearly in his grasp...
Victor Rousseau 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1930」
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