"Yowl" Quotes from Famous Books
... another day. The last crack of a triphammer, peckering at a giant pile of iron down the block, dies out on the dead air. A taxicab, rrrrr-ing in the street below, grunts its horn. A newsboy, in neuralgic yowl, bawls out a sporting extra. Another "L" train and the panes rattle again. A momentary quiet ... and from somewhere in a nearby street I hear a grind-organ. What is the tune it is playing? I've heard it, I know—somewhere; but—no, I can't remember. I try—I ... — Europe After 8:15 • H. L. Mencken, George Jean Nathan and Willard Huntington Wright
... haen a damn'd guid innins," he interrupted. "A dam'd guid innins, an' I canna see what the hell you hae to yowl at." ... — The Underworld - The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner • James C. Welsh |