"Ululation" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... goal overtaken That his wide wings yearn for and labour as hearts that yearn after death. All the solitude sighs and expects with a blind expectation Somewhat unknown of its own sad heart, grown heart-sick of strife: Till sometime its wild heart maddens, and moans, and the vast ululation Takes wing with the clouds on the waters, and wails to be quit of its life. For the spirit and soul of the waste is the wind, and his wings with their waving Darken and lighten the darkness and light of it thickened or thinned; But the heart that impels ...
— Studies in Song • Algernon Charles Swinburne
... terrorized ululation went on, Naran swung his head, locating the source. He'd have to do something about that—fast. The fellow would really demoralize the caravan now—even infect the big saurians—cause ...
— The Weakling • Everett B. Cole
... feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her. It was badly stage-managed; for even the rawest investigators must be struck by the absence of the usual feminine ululation. If there had been nothing else, this incident alone would have suggested a prearranged ...
— The Valley of Fear • Arthur Conan Doyle
... called, and in a moment went downstairs and out into the night. As he closed the front door there seemed to come faintly up from the swamp a low ululation, like the prolonged cry of some wild bird, or the wail of ...
— The Quest of the Silver Fleece - A Novel • W. E. B. Du Bois |
