whinny

“But there was no movement about the fire, and another whinny was the only sound that came from its direction.”

With Hoops of Steel

“We felt compelled to look into this, and what we found was that the whinny is a complex call full of relevant social information.”

TheHorse.com News

“At the end of the last chorus - the last chorus, the band does something; the saxophonists do a fast kind of whinny trill.”

NPR: 100 Years Of Jazz Clarinetist Artie Shaw

“A mare, with her young foal, was grazing in an orchard on an American farm, when she was noticed to run at full speed from a distant part of the orchard, making a loud cry -- not like her usual voice, but a kind of unnatural "whinny," like a scream of distress.”

Little Folks A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown)

“Grandmother murmured something in embarrassment, but the Bohemian woman laughed scornfully, a kind of whinny-laugh, and catching up an empty coffee-pot from the shelf, shook it at us with a look positively vindictive.”

My Ántonia

“Grandmother murmured something in embarrassment, but the Bohemian woman laughed scornfully, a kind of whinny-laugh, and, catching up an empty coffee-pot from the shelf, shook it at us with a look positively vindictive.”

My Antonia

“John Burroughs applies the epithet "whinny," which is good; but it misses the sense of supernatural terror with which, to me, the cry of this bird in the moonlight is always associated.] of the stately loon, as he held his way across the wide stretch of shining, richly tinted water, might all as well have never been; for”

Annette, the Metis Spy

“I slipped on the wet hardwood as a high-pitched whinny sounded.”

Simon & Schuster: Brush of Darkness