"Onomatopoeic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... among them Kaltschmidt, contend that there was but one primitive language, which was purely onomatopoeic, that is, imitative of natural sounds. This has been stigmatized as the "bow-wow" theory, but its advocates might derive an argument from the epithet itself, as not only our children, but the natives of Papua, call the dog a "bow-wow." They have, however, gone too far in attempting to trace back ...
— Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes • Garrick Mallery
... best lines in English verse on the wolf—both skilfully onomatopoeic and suggestively picturesque—is Campbell's, line 66 of 'Pleasures ...
— Marmion • Sir Walter Scott |
