The infant heir of the house of — has shown his good taste by passing the day in squalling. From Wordnik.com. [Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country] Reference
At 2 AM, my infant nephew awoke squalling and screaming. From Wordnik.com. [Rev. James Martin, S.J.: Is Your Mother Holier Than Mother Teresa?] Reference
And the squalling children who will give you less beauty!. From Wordnik.com. [The Tales of Hoffmann Les contes d'Hoffmann] Reference
"Can't you give that squalling baby to the women?" he asked. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Dove]
Several children were squalling in the lane before the house. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi and Priest A Story] Reference
But she vowed vengeance on the "squalling chit" sooner or later. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference
She hurried back presently on hearing frantic squalling from baby. From Wordnik.com. [Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers] Reference
Let's both of us quit squalling this eternal 'nobody loves me' stuff!. From Wordnik.com. [The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police] Reference
I stole off to my cold bed, as dawn came with the squalling of the gulls. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Boy]
She led them to her table and sat there with the squalling, squalid child. From Wordnik.com. [Corpus of a Siam Mosquito] Reference
On a recent national TV news-magazine show, a red-faced infant was squalling. From Wordnik.com. [Cries And Whispers] Reference
"Oh, hold your noise, you squalling thing!" said the guide, answering it back. From Wordnik.com. [Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods] Reference
For a moment it rebelled, squalling in inhuman hatred at the touch of icy snow. From Wordnik.com. [Science Fiction Hall of Fame]
The tomblike silence was shattered by the squalling of several Grunts and Jackals. From Wordnik.com. [The Flood]
I could stand it a little longer if that woman at the piano would leave off squalling. From Wordnik.com. [Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden] Reference
There was a brief, squalling tangle and the Tough pitched headlong into a plant-choked vat. From Wordnik.com. [Rebels of the Red Planet] Reference
The squalling cats of that neighborhood afforded me a fine opportunity for pistol practice. From Wordnik.com. [My Life: or the Adventures of Geo. Thompson Being the Auto-Biography of an Author. Written by Himself.] Reference
She was not a baby-farm after all, and the audition of these squalling nurslings vexed her. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 7, 1892] Reference
There was nothing so triumphant as getting a squalling infant to sleep, he decided, yawning. From Wordnik.com. [The Lightkeeper]
Hogni begs them to let the creature go, -- "Why should we have to put up with his squalling?". From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
Neither of us has ever dreamt of going squalling to the Orderly-room over our ... differences. From Wordnik.com. [The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police] Reference
Let me tell you they didn't have no squalling around or they would get took off and a beating. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 1] Reference
But there are some houses that are awful, with everybody quarrelling, the children squalling. From Wordnik.com. [The Tin Soldier] Reference
Not far away, a fat blond-haired child was squalling furiously as he was led away from the park. From Wordnik.com. [Typhoon Season]
Certainly not to us fuming inside; and surely not to those poor deluded people squalling outside!. From Wordnik.com. [Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Girl Sister of that "Idle Fellow."] Reference
The young man didn't need his lance — he could just take the squalling baby back to its mother. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Dove]
But there it crouched, squalling and tearing the hard wood into splinters with its unsheathed claws. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods] Reference
At this there was loud applause, while from the distance could be heard the sound of a baby squalling. From Wordnik.com. [Grey Town An Australian Story] Reference
The dog's snapping barks and the squalling of the catamount stilled every other sound to Ruth Fielding's ears. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods] Reference
He was delivered safely out of Claire's womb and squalling and unwashed, placed in the arms of his mother, Rose. From Wordnik.com. [surrogate] Reference
My heart has bled for them as I have heard them squalling, by the hour together, in agonies of discontent and dyspepsia. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference
Randal sprang from the paling, a movement which frightened the contemplative pigs, and set them off squalling and scampering. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference
That squalling summer cartoon quickly grew tedious it was always in your face -- but "Water-world" doesn't wear out its welcome. From Wordnik.com. ['Waterworld': It Floats] Reference
Some very beneficial legislation has had to be stuffed down the national maw over the decades, against great squalling and resistance. From Wordnik.com. [Prescription Politics] Reference
Touring almost nonstop, he makes thunderous music full of high-volume guitar work by others and squalling keyboards from the man himself. From Wordnik.com. [Bob Dylan Takes His Latest Look At 'Life'] Reference
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