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Examples
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Then after me it was right old Dim should have his turn, which he did in a beasty snorty howly sort of a way with his Peebee Shelley maskie taking no notice, while I held on to her.
Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010
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I'm sorry I woke you up at 6:30 this morning because "the wind is too howly".
Archive 2006-03-01 Jay 2006
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"Their priests have a habit of sending some sort of creepy-howly thing out at night, to make sure nobody's out doing something they shouldn't."
Exile's Honor Lackey, Mercedes 2002
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"Their priests have a habit of sending some sort of creepy-howly thing out at night, to make sure nobody's out doing something they shouldn't."
Exile's Honor Lackey, Mercedes 2002
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Suppose ye should organize an inquisition, or howly office,
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Moreover, I feel a sthrong confidence that the howly Catholic Church is to be greatly glorified by me on these islands.
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Y 'are a masther mind, Heller, an' ought to been in howly ordhers.
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I would, sor, so hilp me Moses, if all the howly saints, whose names be praised, an 'the blessed ould
The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea Henry [Illustrator] Austin
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"I stood here, see, and me jew'l stood there, and the howly chaplain beyont."
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There should be somebody to run about with howly wather an 'exthrame unction, an' the like.
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