"Yodle" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... tumbled fields, and other fields brown with the dead ghosts of past years' cotton standing straggling and weather-worn. Long, straight, or curling rows of ploughers passed by with steaming, struggling mules, with whips snapping and the yodle of workers or the sharp guttural growl of overseers as a ...
— The Quest of the Silver Fleece - A Novel • W. E. B. Du Bois
... yodel and immediately with his flock stood right before the ladies, for with his bare feet he leaped as nimbly and lightly as his ...
— Moni the Goat-Boy • Johanna Spyri et al
... a Fricka, Brangaene, Ortrud, Sieglinde, Erda, this clever girl might become! She was musical, she was dramatic in temperament—he let his imagination run away with him. She only sang an Oberbayerische yodel, and, while her voice was not very high, she contrived a falsetto that made her English listener shiver. This yodel seemed to him as thrilling as the "Ho yo to ho!" of Brunnhilde as she rushes over ...
— Visionaries • James Huneker
... realities in a dream, Gilbert—a dream that all our children were home again—and all small again—playing in Rainbow Valley. It is always so silent now—but I was imagining I heard clear voices and gay, childish sounds coming up as I used to. I could hear Jem's whistle and Walter's yodel, and the twins' laughter, and for just a few blessed minutes I forgot about the guns on the Western front, and had a ...
— Rilla of Ingleside • Lucy Maud Montgomery |
