Within a few minutes the dread howlings had so increased in volume that they seemed to issue from scores of savage throats and to completely encircle the little camp.
With frightful howlings the pack scattered, and began to gallop swiftly in a wide circle about the fire-lit space.
As time passed, the wolf tones began to change, and defiant howlings to give place to yelps and yells of distress.
Still, he comforted himself with the reflection that dead wolves couldn't howl, and doubtless all those that had ventured near the camp had eaten the poisoned meat, and had their howlings effectually silenced.
I am overjoyed at hearing the everlasting Howlings of the Haters of the Almighty!
Where be the gloomy shades, and desolate mountains, and the wild beasts, with their dismal howlings and rages!
In a pause of the storm, the frightful howlings of a flock of wolves were heard rising from over the hermitage, as if hundreds had assembled on its roof of rock.
Clelland could hear their fierce howlings mingled with the terrific bellowings of the heavens.
She, of her ancient woes Long mindful, grieving still, Sithonia's fields With howlings fill'd.
The flames of the blazing palisades and hedge enabled the savages, who were filling the forest with their howlings of rage, to take a surer aim, while they themselves were concealed in impenetrable darkness.
The other, seeing that his companion did not return, and still hearing the faint howlings of the wolf, also left his horse, and soon experienced the same fate.
Perhaps this was heard by the watch-dog, or it may have felt the disturbing presence of my half-wild habitant guide; for it sat back on its haunches and throwing up its head, let out the most doleful howlings imaginable.
There were the howlings of baffled wolves from what was now the far side of the river bank; but domed clay mounds, mossy, floating branches and a world of willows shrubs were about my head.
Their situation was so lonely, and Doctor White's absences were so frequent, that Mrs. White was greatly terrified every night by the frightful howlings of these ferocious marauders.
Music of some sort is always going on; sometimes the harsh, barbarous discords and howlings the Spanish delight in, at others civilised harmonies and trained voices that are really beautiful but less popular.
In the backwoods of the North I have spent whole nights watching for wolves, and heard their howlings on all sides.
The howlings of the wind were broken by horrible groanings from the moving polar pack, while now and then arose deafening sounds, as of a cannonade, from the explosions of the ice-surface.
Long after dark the wearied sledge dogs with loud howlings broke into a rapid run, and were welcomed with fierce yells from the rival teams of the Eskimo village, a dozen large snow houses on the shores of Liverpool Bay.
Finally the cub became alarmed, and with piteous howlingsran away, escaping over the rugged pack despite a shot which wounded her.
In the hours of travel to and fro the seaman would either freeze solidly or meet a horrible alternative fate from the not-far-distant wolves, whose dismal howlings already seemed a funeral dirge to their helpless prey.
The songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord God: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.
The shouts of the Roman soldiery as they ran to and fro, and the howlings of the insurgents who were perishing in the flames, mingled with the roaring of the conflagration and the thundering sound of falling timbers.
The mother's groans were desperate; they were like thehowlings of a maddened beast.
The girl grew pale, trying not to faint; Batistet and the little ones began to weep, and Teresa continued her howlings as though her husband were in his death agony.
To render the illusion perfect, Death, again excited by Goliath, who struck him with an iron bar, sent forth frightful howlings from the depths of the cavern.
The mournfulhowlings of the assassin continued to render the horrid sepulchre still more horrible, and gave to its darkness a deeper ghostliness.
Wherever they turned the fugitives were met by long pikes, gleaming swords, and keen daggers, and above the howlings of the storm rose their shrill screams of terror and quickly stifled cries of mortal agony.
These were answered from the distant forest by the melancholy howlings of wolves and the cries of other night-prowling wild beasts, that sounded very fearful to Réné's unaccustomed ears.
Terrified at the delay and pawing of the beast, I increased my voice to its utmost volume, broke branches from the limbs, and, in the impotency of fright, madly hurled them at the spot whence the continued howlings proceeded.
The terrible creature pursued his walk around the tree, lashing the ground with his tail, and prolonging his howlings almost to a roar.
Just then the frightful howlings came pealing from the woods behind, awaking Gertrudis, and causing her to raise her head with a cry of terror.
It was the male one, the same from which the last howlings had proceeded.
It was in this direction, moreover, the howlings of the ape had been heard.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "howlings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
