"Ululation" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the white; women hung heavily with cowries; other women with neither garment nor ornament, their bodies oiled and glistening. A deep, rolling chant arose from hundreds of throats, punctuated and carried by a sort of shrill, intermittent ululation. The drums were there, but for the moment they were not being beaten in cadence, only rubbed until they roared in ...
— The Leopard Woman • Stewart Edward White et al
... was attended with festivities. The little Christian village re-echoed with the ululation of the crowd of women forming the bride's procession, as they paraded their joy among the hovels before going to the church. And when, after the ceremony, the train came forth, carrying Nesibeh to a house not her father's, the zagharit broke out afresh, and guns and pistols were discharged. ...
— The Valley of the Kings • Marmaduke Pickthall |
