bleat

• “I don't know if you care or not but a great doe bleat is Primos Original Can Doe in estrus”

  What's the best grunt call? Please name the brand and name of the call, thank's a lot.

• “This consists in imitating, with a small instrument called a bleat, the cry of the fawn, so as to lure the doe within reach of the rifle.”

  A Tour on the Prairies.

• “I say occasionally because the majority of what I tweet (some would say "bleat") covers subjects near and dear to my sophomoric soul: genitals, bowel movements or just plain obscure references to even more obscure behavior both real and fictional that I (and my cadre of equally depraved followers) find amusing.”

  The Huffington Post: Steven Weber: Listen to the Mocking Bird

• “To post on personal matters is a high-risk activity because there is this danger of coming across as woe-is-me and no one wants to read what I've previously described as "bleat".”

  Archive 2008-09-01

• “The "bleat" or goat voice, a particular fault of French singers, proceeds from the habit of forcing the voice, which, when it is of small volume, cannot stand the consequent fatigue of the larynx.”

  Caruso and Tetrazzini on the Art of Singing

• “There was always a halfpenny underneath the geranium pot in the window-sill for the child whose eye caught sight of the first swallow, redstart or sandpiper; or whose ear first recognised the clarion call of the cuckoo, or the evening "bleat" of the nightjar on the bracken-mantled fells at the end of May.”

  More Tales of the Ridings

• “Pretence of any kind was as the red rag; "bleat" was the unpardonable sin; the man who was "human" was the man to be praised.”

  Nights Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties

• “But however that may have been, "bleat" and "human" were the two words ever recurring like a refrain in the columns of the _National Observer_, ever the beginning and end of argument in the heated atmosphere of Buckingham”

  Nights Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties

• “He was still _clicking_ high overhead, but soon alighted silently within twenty yards of where I was standing, and commenced to "bleat," prefacing each”

  Birds in the Bush

• “For the first time, too, since the bad weather had set in, was to be heard the incessant bleat which is music to the ears of a New Zealand sheep-farmer.”

  Station Amusements

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