honkings

To stand under the cloud of wings when five thousand wild white geese explode into the air all at once in a storm of honkings and flappings is an experience to stir the blood.

Natives and Others Adams, Robert M. 1987

He got out oblivious to the honkings and cries of protest from the drivers trying to get by him.

The Drawing of the Three King, Stephen, 1947- 1987

The wooden wheels of the poplar clock in the cabin were whirring for the striking of midnight, when their noise was overborne by the grotesque, unfamiliar honkings of an automobile horn.

Heart of the Blue Ridge Waldron Baily

He suspected a gun, and when, in involuntary obedience to the frantic honkings behind her, she let her hand drop to the gear lever, Bland turned to flee.

The Thunder Bird B. M. Bower 1905

` ` Na, na, my leddy: I downa take muckle siller at ance --- it's against our rule; and --- though it's maybe no civil to be repeating the like o 'that --- they say that siller's like to be scarce wi' Sir Arthur himsell, and that he's run himsell out o 'thought wi' his honkings and minings for lead and copper yonder. ''

The Antiquary 1845

Greediness, honkings to power, rectangles of money, objects, and loved ones to hoard for one’s self—these “attractions” will fade as surely as the winds of the past are no longer in present memory.

Songs of the Arcturians Patricia L. Pereira 1996

Greediness, honkings to power, rectangles of money, objects, and loved ones to hoard for one’s self—these “attractions” will fade as surely as the winds of the past are no longer in present memory.

Songs of the Arcturians Patricia L. Pereira 1996

There wasn’t time for the relaxing of tension as the brittle atmosphere was shattered by strident honkings of a horn.

Calder Born, Calder Bred Janet Dailey 1983

There wasn’t time for the relaxing of tension as the brittle atmosphere was shattered by strident honkings of a horn.

Calder Born, Calder Bred Janet Dailey 1983

“Na, na, my leddy: I downa take muckle siller at ance — it’s against our rule; and — though it’s maybe no civil to be repeating the like o’ that — they say that siller’s like to be scarce wi’ Sir Arthur himsell, and that he’s run himsell out o’ thought wi’ his honkings and minings for lead and copper yonder.”

The Antiquary 1584