They may squawk and cross the road; they may cross the road and not squawk; they may squawk and not cross the road; they may not cross the road and not squawk.
With a harsh squawk a brilliant scarlet and blue bird with an enormous yellow bill perched on the palisade of the compound.
Even the dismal squawk of a Baroto bird could not damp the relief and joy of MYalu.
As he squatted beneath a banana plant to take snuff came a squawk and the banana eater—for it appeared to be the same one—alighted on a frond near to him.
Then as the drums throbbed and the warriors grunted rhythmically to Bakahenzie’s song of enchantment came a squawk as of a parrot.
I can see them now, the cocks leaping and strutting, with trailing wings and down-thrust heads, displaying their bulbous orange-colored neck ornaments while the hens flutter and squawk in silly delight.
Lying thus in our cot under the sloping raftered roof we could hear the squawk of the hens, as father wrung their innocent necks, and the crash of the "sweeps" being unloaded sounded loud and clear and strange.
But he never got far away before madam recalled him, sometimes by the squawk alone, sometimes preceding it by a single clear whistle, exactly in his own tone.
Then he sent a bullet zipping past my ear, and from the house came a high, nasalsquawk which, I gathered, came from the old party I had seen the day before.
His next logical move would be to let out a squawk and faint, I thought; in which case I should have started in to do the comforting, with a dipper of water from the pump.
None of us could legitimately squawk about getting ants mixed up with our anatomy.
Just the same, we didn't let our squawk get beyond the walls of the lab.
She could hear the movement and squawk of a chicken in one of the trees in the side yard when some fellow lodger disturbed it, or a sudden breeze shook the limb upon which it roosted.
The mutter of his denunciation could be heard above the yells of the fakers and the squawk of penny whistles.
But all such things automatically turn out satisfactorily to a majority; though an ugly, grasping landlord who lost out, would viciously squawk that "municipal graft" was against him.
You see, there's an old intelligence trick, speeding up a message on a record until it sounds just like that, a short squawk of static, and then broadcasting it.
This business about squawk coding, speeding for better transmission to counteract beam waver--I was wrong.
Abruptly the green light shone on the set again, indicating that a squawk message had been received.
She blew it with exquisite candor, and it gave forth the heartbreaking squawk of the first toy trumpet a child breaks of a Christmas morning.
She just escaped, and that was all, leaping into the air with a squawk of terror and flapping there violently at the end of those six feet of free cord.
And from time to time one or another of the boldest would alight on the very edge of the hole, cock his head, and peer in, to bounce away again instantly with a startledsquawk as the squirrel would jump up at him, chattering with rage.
Suddenly she disappeared, and in another instant I heard the despairing, final squawk of an unfortunate hen.
With a startled squawk he lifted his wings, as something grabbed him by the toes, and held him fast.
That one squawk was the only sound he uttered; but his powerful wings threshed the air desperately as he strained to wrench himself free.
I would like you to tell Mrs. Meredith that the Squawk is like all other babies in the world and hear what she has to say!
So in sheer desperation he turned nurse to Squawk and ran errands for its mother, wondering the while how it was that some men had all the luck!
He has been endowed with every virtue when he has none, simply because he put the Squawk to rights.
The Shanghai rooster settled down with a half-stifled squawk in the bottom of his coop.
The bird had undoubtedly been disturbed and frightened by the secret approach of Bruin; but once free, the feathered creature felt his dignity disturbed, and finding himself free of the coop, he flew with a loud squawk at the charging bear.
While Ackerman Boone was talking over the squawk box, the temperature within the Glory of the Galaxy rose to 145° Fahrenheit.
I don't know what they do with them, I am sure, but presently I hear a dreadful squawk or two in the woodshed, a flouncing around, and then all is still.
Vike starts up and barks, and taking this for an invitation to dance, Old Pen with a squawk and a squeal springs up, and next minute Johnnie Shingles and he are wheeling round in fine style on the quarter-deck.
There was a terrific burst of blue light, a sharp squawkfrom the Phoenix, and a shower of sparks.
Its voice, which had been getting louder and louder, ended in an indignant squawk (its battle cry, as it explained later).
Phoenix shouted, giving the special squawk which was its battle cry.
Another time they startled a high-flying albatross, which gave a frightened squawk and plunged down out of sight with folded wings.
