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Example sentences for "baying"

Lexicographically close words:
bawn; bay; bayas; bayberry; bayed; bayliffe; bayliffes; bayonet; bayoneted; bayoneting
  1. I made a vain effort to loosen my beast, which, startled by the shots, the baying of the dogs, and our haste and hurry, plunged and kicked as though it were demented.

  2. Nicholas' pistol rang out to no purpose, the report was echoed by a chorus of shouts from the troopers following us, and Couronne, swinging round, lashed out with her heels at the hound that was baying her.

  3. Everything north of the James continued quiet along our lines for a month or more, but we could hear the deep baying of cannon continually, away to our right, in the direction of Petersburg.

  4. The bold dash and beautiful piece of evolution so excite the admiration of all who witnessed it, that a yell went up that drowns for a time the heavy baying of the siege guns on Stafford Heights.

  5. Soon the roar of musketry filled the air; the regular and continual baying of the cannon beat time to the steady roll of small arms.

  6. But into Medea's heart Hera cast most grievous fear; and she trembled like a nimble fawn whom the baying of hounds hath terrified amid the thicket of a deep copse.

  7. All would hurry to the spot, and off they would go baying as they went.

  8. By the baying of the hounds, the circle in which the race was kept up could be easily known.

  9. The last runs to get near enough to shoot had to be done when the hounds' baying came from the side of the circle nearest to me.

  10. That shriek was enough, without the baying of the hound, to bring their enemies to the water's edge.

  11. Blinded by the flowing blood, exhausted and despairing, I cursed the coward dog, who stood near, baying furiously, yet refusing to seize his game.

  12. At that moment, when Hope herself had fled, deep and clear over the neighboring hill came the baying of my gallant Bravo!

  13. Menee evidently meant the sound made by the hound when actually following the scent, not when baying the game.

  14. With rear and flanks protected by a revĂȘtement of gnarled roots and a labyrinth of stems, he fears nothing behind, while the furiously baying hounds on his front he now utterly despises.

  15. Close to one of the clumps of furze the Comte de Pralines was standing, knee-deep in baying hounds, holding the body of the fox high above his head, and uttering scream upon scream of the most orthodox quality.

  16. There were distant shouts, and barking dogs, and bellowing cattle, and blended with them was the unmistakable baying of hounds.

  17. When these had ceased rolling, and he had passed down to the red shale, he heard Sounder baying near, and knew a cougar had been treed or cornered.

  18. The singular raggedness and wildness of the scene took hold of me, and was not dispelled until the baying of Sounder and Don roused action in me.

  19. While resting at the foot of the crag, I heard more baying of hounds, but for my life I could not tell whether the sound came from up or down, and I commenced to feel that I did not much care.

  20. There were more wild rides to the music of the baying hounds, and more heart-breaking canyon slopes to conquer, and more swinging, tufted tails and snarling savage faces in the pinyons.

  21. Then we began to close in on him, and to hear more distinctly the baying of the hounds.

  22. But, an hour later, with the pines not very far away, the baying rose so close behind that it stopped her heart.

  23. From far away up the mountain-side came the fierce baying of the dog pack.

  24. Then, from behind him rose the starved baying of his brothers.

  25. She was pulling on her gloves again when a distant baying first reached her ears.

  26. The baying had been very faint and far away--it might have been sounded for some other hunting.

  27. And then to the sinister sound of the rushing feet there was added the baying of many pariah dogs which, from every conceivable corner and from miles away, raced like a pack of wolves upon the Steppes, to join the hunt.

  28. Out of her presence Morton and Douglas dragged him, the rest of the baying pack going after them.

  29. When the baying of the hounds was heard, a panic seized upon the swine.

  30. Fierce were the shouts of blacks and Spaniards, and more savage was the baying of the bloodhound.

  31. The midshipmen heard the baying of a bloodhound.

  32. She slipped Ragamuffin's rein over it, and ran down the steep, uneven way through the chalk cliff, her bob-tail baying at her side.

  33. He swung about and showed his yellow fangs like a mobbed wolf at the pack baying at his heels.

  34. About two o'clock in the morning a large animal prowled into or near the camp, doubtless attracted by the refuse of the deer's carcass; and all hands were roused by the furious baying of the dogs.

  35. In due time the distant baying of the dogs was heard, the sound drew nearer, and after a long while their loud yelping plainly showed that, though unseen by the boys, they were running past the immediate neighborhood.

  36. He had sprung to his feet as the distant baying of dogs fell on his ear.

  37. By night he would awaken at the distant baying of a hound, then lie in the sweat of fear, huddling for comfort at a woman's side.

  38. Nothing remained of his former self except the woeful consciousness of his transformation; and as he stood there, motionless and dismayed, the distant baying of his hounds coming to join him fell upon his ear.

  39. I know, myself, that the baying of those horrible dogs seems to freeze the blood; and in my case, I only escaped by luckily striking a rivulet.

  40. Scarcely had they taken their places, at the top of the gorge; when the baying of the hounds, which had been increasing every minute in volume, became so loud that the Spaniards were clearly close at hand.

  41. The scouts reported that they could hear, in the distance, the baying of dogs; and that, undoubtedly, the enemy were proceeding on the track of the slaves.

  42. Hundreds and thousands fled from their homes into the jaws of a Canadian winter to escape the jaws of the slave-hounds, whose fierce baying began presently to fill the land from Massachusetts to Ohio.

  43. The condemnatory report of the insolent chairman proved as innocuous as the baying of dogs at the moon.

  44. On they go through the woods, for a quarter, or perhaps a half a mile, the baying of the hound faint and intermittent in the distance, then quite lost.

  45. I have had more than one hunter grip me excitedly, and with almost a command bid me hear the music of the baying pack.

  46. The hounds are baying on my track, O Christian!

  47. The hounds are baying on my track; O Christian!

  48. We went over to where he was, and sure enough, away up in the top of a tall birch, sat his coonship, looking quietly down upon the dogs that were baying at the foot of the tree.

  49. They had ran but a short distance, when they seemed to become stationary, and deep, quick baying succeeded the lengthened and ringing sound of their voices.

  50. The rifles were scarcely reloaded when the deep baying of the hounds was heard, and two more deer came crashing across the isthmus where we were stationed.

  51. He knew, too, from the continued baying and yelping of the dogs, after the revolver shots, that the boy had not killed the bear.

  52. The yelping had given place to deep baying sounds.

  53. That they were not baying told Tad that the dogs had not yet sighted their quarry.

  54. She was surrounded by a circle of baying dogs, each trying for an opening to get in a vicious bite.

  55. Alarmed by the baying of the dogs, the deer had fled in Tad's direction, and perhaps it had halted because of the scent of the boy himself.


  56. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "baying" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.