Her cackling appeared quite prophetic and oracular; and the first question proposed to her by the unanimous consent of the matrons and judges was, Whether or not the moon was composed of green cheese?
Wauwau, descending on the earth, ran on like an ostrich before the troop, cackling all the way.
I was staying at a village in the Wiltshire downs, and at intervals, while sitting at work in my room on the ground floor, I heard the cackling of a fowl at the cottage opposite.
By and by, when I was back in my room, the cackling sounded again, but when I got out the sound had ceased and the fowls, as before, appeared quite unexcited.
Brian told her what had chanced at the castle, and she broke out in a last wild cackling laugh.
But only a cackling laugh answered him, as down from the bank above slipped a perfect hag of a creature, and he drew back in alarm.
I mean the cackling of the field people of both sexes returning from their day's work.
In place of giving me the information I was panting for, the whole town came cackling round me with comments on the organist and the sacrilege.
Mollie wheeled, blushing and angry, but Buck had darted cackling out the door.
I was saddling the mules when the cacklingof geese in the creek announced the coming of the Hon.
Of course she shows this, as all other geese show themselves, by cackling about things that interest no one but herself.
If you are a goose, cackling a great deal, silly at heart and wholly indifferent about to-morrow, you will choose just what you call the interesting titles.
The noise was further increased by the butting of a few goats and the cackling of some poultry, which had got mixed up with them.
A tremendous cackling in rear rendered further orders inaudible as well as unnecessary, while the men stood aside from the opening to the gangway of planks.
Thus vaunting, 'cross the mead she stalks, The cackling breed attend her walks; The sun shot down his noontide beams, The Swans were sporting in the streams.
It was a little sunny country-place, very green with trees and grass, filled usually with few louder sounds than the cackling of geese and the dripping of the well-water.
EZRA: Cacklinglike guinea-fowl when a hawk’s in air!
Cackling aloud such quantities of joys, As if this chick, to which her egg gave birth, Was born to deal prodigious knocks, To shine the Broughton of game cocks, And kill the fowls of all the earth!
She fluttered around, cackling and making a great fuss.
Right into the trolley they flew, the hen cackling and the rooster crowing!
Cackling and fluttering, the hen raced about inside the trolley car, and Freddie tried to catch her, but could not.
Ah, how vividly I remember the horror of my poor mother when she found me sweltering in the mud amongst a group of cackling ducks, and the tenderness with which she stripped off my dripping clothes and washed my dirty little body!
Suddenly the mother raised her head and uttered a series of the most discordant cackling sounds.
Then the cackling was renewed, the sucking continued, and so the operation of feeding was carried on till the young one was satisfied; but what she fed her little one with, we could not tell.
The apelike skipper emphasized his amusement with a cackling laugh.
As the tiny flame flared up and showed him the pale but defiant face of the girl, he gave a little cackling laugh and puffed out his bloated cheeks in evil triumph.
The ponds crashed and boomed in long reverberating explosions, as the sinking water heaved it up and let it fall with crackling roar; flights of ducks flashed over, cackling breathlessly as they scurried straight into the north.
And when the dust and noise and monotony seemed the very hardest to bear, the old man's cackling laugh was sure to rise above the howl of the cylinder.
They were all cackling wildly, and craning their necks to stare into the shed as if they had just seen a ghost there.
A few minutes later there came from the yard a wild screeching and cackling of the hens, followed by a trampling rush and agonized bleating.
The speckled hen was cackling vain-gloriously; and as Mrs. Gammit passed the row of nests in the shed she saw a white egg shining.
At last all the hunted birds were in a state of the wildest excitement; none were in sight, and an agonized chorus of cackling resounded from all parts of the garden, as if the largest and most venomous of snakes had been seen.
One day we heard the cackling of a hen, which had apparently laid an egg on the top of the American windmill; and, on looking up, found that Bobby had selected this airy height as his practising-ground.
Great cackling there was among the women when the discourse was ended.
And then a curious, cackling laugh sounded out of the mist; the lantern came bounding forward, and before she could realise what had happened, Elsie found her skirt seized and a great rough head scrubbing against it.
The pigeons now flew up to crevices in the rocks, the fowls perched themselves on our tent pole, and the ducks and geese waddled off, cackling and quacking, to the marshy margin of the river.
They swam anxiously about, and with much clapping of wings and disturbed cackling showed their uneasiness; finally taking wing they crossed the harbor, and took up their quarters on Shark Island.
A Gaul 89 The Citadel saved by thecackling of the Geese 93 Initial R.
Illustration: The Citadel saved by thecackling of the Geese.
I could have sworn that I heard a cackling mocking laugh close to my ears, and again I looked fearfully around.
Yes, the place was all unchanged: the big barn door was standing open, and he could hear his cows inside pulling the hay out of their cribs; his hens were scratching about as usual for seeds and grain, cackling contentedly.
They would eat the morsels from his hand with evident pleasure, cackling contentedly, just as they used to do when they still belonged to him.
Once again the speckled hen swaggered down the main street of the "settlement," cackling foolishly.
A speckled hen swaggered down the main street of the "settlement," cackling foolishly.
These had regained "bounds" without being discovered and their loud cackling grated discordantly on the nerves of the late banqueters.
They floated among a number of white swans and the whole flock flew upward with shrill cries, startling the cranes that stalked in the shadows and sending clouds of cackling geese and ducks whirling up from every gloomy nook and ravine.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cackling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
