Dreadful young creatures--squealing and squawking and showing their legs!
The tiny squawking noise that fell on his ears entirely failed to reassure him.
They decided at last that if they were to have any peace they'd better go and look at whatever it was that Henrietta Hen was squawking about.
Not long afterward Henrietta Hen came fluttering down from the haymow, squawking at the top of her lungs for old Whitey.
In one of the mountain counties a woman, hearing her chickens squawking one day at noon, ran out to find what seemed a big dog among them with a hen in his mouth.
She rose, however, but a few inches, and then, flapping and squawking wildly, she was dragged down again by some unseen force.
At her coming four long beaks were lifted into the air, gaping hungrily and squawking with eagerness.
The He imp would alight on the rail, about ten feet in front of her, and pretend to be very sick, squawking feebly and drooping his black wings with a struggling flutter, as if it was all he could do to keep his perch.
Squawking and flapping and whirling round and round, she made an amazing exhibition of herself.
The discordant rasping and squawking tortured Elise's ears and set her teeth on edge.
As the noise grew louder, the boys realized that such a squawking and screaming could never come from two or three carts only.
Did these last exercise so great an attraction for the crows as they do for starlings, the smaller birds would be crowded out by their larger rivals, and the Bombax tree would be black with squawking corvi.
A second or two later the fighting, squawking crows hear the swish of his wings--a sound very familiar to them--and promptly make way for him.
In a few seconds some crows catch sight of her and proceed to mob her by flying around her and squawking loudly.
He was probably the most surprised parrot in the world, for that revolving record yanked his feet out from under him and he fell squawking on his back.
The way that old parrot flapped off of the victrola and back to the child's shoulder was a caution, squawking and snapping his beak as if he were swearing, in bird talk.
The chickens were squawking and the little pigs squealing in their boxes, and he stopped long enough to throw a bucketful of water over them, and pitch a tarpaulin over their boxes.
By this time Bill Hale had reached them, carrying a large bundle tied up in a napkin in one hand, and in the other swinging a pair of squawking chickens by the legs.
Partaking of the humans' excitement, Captain Klaus winged low over the beach, crying and squawking as he wheeled and dipped in graceful circles.
Ramsay saw the squawking sea gull bounce a couple of feet into the air and spread his long wings.
Squawking and chuckling, as though at some huge joke, Captain Klaus winged down from the rooftop to alight on his master's shoulder.
Above the squawking of the chicken Judkins still held, swinging it by its legs, Chrisfield could hear the woman's voice shrieking.
Rosaline put the parrot back on his perch, where he swayed from side to side, squawking in protest: "Les bourgeois a la lanterne, nom de dieu!
Suddenly there was a loud squawking and all the chickens were cackling with terror.
It rose in mid-air, the car overtook it as it rose above the level of the hood, and there was a rolling, squawking bundle of shedding feathers tumbling over and over along the hood until it reached the slanting windshield.
There it spun wildly upward, left a cloud of feather's fluttering about Tommy's head, and fell still squawking into the road behind.
This he did by flying furiously around the room, feathers rustling, and squawking as loud as he could.
He would fly around the room, squawking at the top of his voice; and the horrible tin horns the boys liked to blow at Thanksgiving and Christmas drove him frantic.
Even now she cried out, and would have retreated before the sharp bills and beating wings had not Blake walked ahead and kicked the squawking birds out of the path.
From all sides came the harsh squawking of birds, the weird cries of monkeys and other small creatures, the crash of heavy animals moving through the jungle, and above all the yelp and howl and roar of beasts of prey.
Then I heard them fighting their way up the stairs and go squawking and bellowing out the front door of the store.
Through the darkness cut the sound of the squawking geese, the tinkling cow-bells, the grunting hogs.
Suddenly there was a strange squawking call, and two large reddish birds rose into the air.
Its mate still uttering the same squawking cry, was fast disappearing into space.
As a man of religion or of power, how can this squawking bird in red plumage compare with Sheikh Saadi and the Imam Fayum of the Hashishiyya?
And a cart near Daoud was piled high with wooden cages full of squawking chickens.
Zoro was flying around squawking his head off while the stars, in the dawn sky, began to fade away.
He saw the strange crow, now back on Boyce's shoulder and squawking at him.
At first they tried to ignore that squawking but it soon became so frantic and intense that they could no longer bare it.
Before the squawking bird was hung up its neck was thoroughly greased, both operations being strenuously objected to and jealously watched by Billy, who had already adopted the gander as one of his pets.
Released, the unhappy bird swung back and forth, hissing and squawking in an extremely ludicrous yet pathetic manner, exciting the laughter of the slackers, the pity of the boys and the angry protest of Billy.
But we caught the chickens, and brought them back, with feathers flying, and with them squawking at the tops of their voices.
But when they took hold of it three chickens flopped out of the broken side, and went squawking across the fields.
The dust flew, dogs barked, and chickens ran squawking across the road out of the way.
