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Definition of Caterwauls
1. caterwaul [v] - See also: caterwaul
Lexicographical Neighbors of Caterwauls
Literary usage of Caterwauls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion by James George Frazer (1900)
"... especially when the portrait is burnt in front of the house of the gay deceiver
whom it represents, while a powerful chorus of caterwauls, groans, ..."
2. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1880)
"... a witch, and scarce feel; she caterwauls, and must have a stallion, a champion,
she must and will marry again, and betroth herself to some young man, ..."
3. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1881)
"... only straddle one leg of your bridge out of its true position, and your
instrument, which ought to sing like a woman, caterwauls like a cat. ..."
4. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"Who in the gutter caterwauls, squalls, mauls Some feline foe, and screams in
shrill ill-will. Now Bulls of Bashan, of a prize size, rise In childish dreams, ..."
5. The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells (1920)
"Who in the gutter caterwauls, squalls, mauls Some feline foe, and screams in
shrill ill-will. Now Bulls of Bashan, of a prize size, rise In childish dreams, ..."
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