Though how many people look up the word "ululant" in their lives. From Wordnik.com. [Being Invisible in Death] Reference
An interesting aside, to me: in the dictionary under "ululant" is an quoted use of the word: "dark wasteland...ululant with bitter wind.". From Wordnik.com. [Being Invisible in Death] Reference
It was high-pitched, ululant-plainly the cry of a master to his minions, his hounds ... or his snow leopards. From Wordnik.com. [Hero Of Dreams]
Ann went off to photograph them doing it, and I pressed my ear to the ice and heard the adults underneath calling their ancient song, ululant and ineffably sad. From Wordnik.com. [Terra Incognita]
I would give that odd ululant cry I had learned in a dream, and sometimes Kergma would join us, come skittering down the. folds of darkness, out some frayed area of twisted space. From Wordnik.com. [Prince of Chaos]
He burst out laughing, after a doubtful and ululant fashion, I dare say; but he went home, took up his auld wife, and played 'Tullochgorum' some fifty times over, with extemporized variations. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Falconer] Reference
Femineis ululant; ferit aurea sidera clamor "-- from his favourite poet. From Wordnik.com. [The Long Night] Reference
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