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- verb Present participle of
wawl .
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Examples
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In the countrey of Shiruan (sometime called Media) if you chance to lie in the fields neere vnto any village, as the twilight beginneth, you shall haue about you two or three hundred foxes, which make a marueilous wawling or howling: and if you looke not well to your victuals, it shal scape them hardly but they will haue part with you.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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"The Arctics hawk-up their haunted heart, and raucous, spue; and north-winds, wawling calls, outstart, to droop anew; the clouds like scouts updart, depart, and truceless do, and droop anew."
The Lord of the Sea 1906
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Ellangowan that morning! the father half-distracted — the mother dead in premature travail — the helpless infant, with scarce any one to attend it, coming wawling and crying into this miserable world at such
Guy Mannering 1815
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No, Colonel, I shall never forget the misery of the house of Ellangowan that morning! the father half-distracted -- the mother dead in premature travail -- the helpless infant, with scarce any one to attend it, coming wawling and crying into this miserable world at such a moment of unutterable misery.
Guy Mannering — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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No, Colonel, I shall never forget the misery of the house of Ellangowan that morning! the father half-distracted -- the mother dead in premature travail -- the helpless infant, with scarce any one to attend it, coming wawling and crying into this miserable world at such a moment of unutterable misery.
Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801
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No, Colonel, I shall never forget the misery of the house of Ellangowan that morning! the father half-distracted -- the mother dead in premature travail -- the helpless infant, with scarce any one to attend it, coming wawling and crying into this miserable world at such a moment of unutterable misery.
Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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In the countrey of Shiruan (sometime called Media) if you chance to lie in the fields neere vnto any village, as the twilight beginneth, you shall haue about you two or three hundred foxes, which make a marueilous wawling or howling: and if you looke not well to your victuals, it shal scape them hardly but they will haue part with you.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 04 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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the father half-distractedthe mother dead in premature travailthe helpless infant, with scarce any one to attend it, coming wawling and crying into this miserable world at such a moment of unutterable misery.
Chapter XXXVII 1917
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