jodeling

One of the merry Swiss girls sang a love-ditty with a jodeling refrain, which was supposed to be echoed back by her lover afar in the mountains.

From a Cornish Window A New Edition Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

They spun wildly on their heels, jodeling after the accepted manner of

Stalky & Co. Rudyard Kipling 1900

Christian stood at the top invisible, jodeling in a most unearthly manner, and developing an astonishing falsetto power, only interrupting his performance to assure me that he was not coming down again; so I was obliged to measure the breadth of the fall by myself.

Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland 1881

Within the house there was the silence of Sunday morning; the street was still, save for the jodeling of a milkman as he wheeled his clattering cans from house to house.

Thyrza George Gissing 1880

There are some old Swiss châlets across the green, and we hear pleasant sounds of every-day life now and then; last night there was a festival of some sort, and the young people sang very loud and very late, jodeling famously and as if breath never failed them.

Betty Leicester A Story For Girls Sarah Orne Jewett 1879

The jodeling (pronounced yodling, -- emphasis on the o) continued, and was very pleasant and inspiriting to hear.

A Tramp Abroad 1879

After about fifteen minutes we came across another shepherd boy who was jodeling, and gave him half a franc to keep it up.

A Tramp Abroad 1879

There is somewhat too much of the jodeling in the Alps. About the middle of the afternoon we passed through a prodigious natural gateway called the Felsenthor, formed by two enormous upright rocks, with a third lying across the top.

A Tramp Abroad 1879

After about fifteen minutes we came across another shepherd boy who was jodeling, and gave him half

A Tramp Abroad — Volume 04 Mark Twain 1872

There is somewhat too much of the jodeling in the Alps. About the middle of the afternoon we passed through

A Tramp Abroad — Volume 04 Mark Twain 1872