The whippoorwills were so near that the introductory chuck and many of the finer, flute-like trills of their song, which are never heard at a distance, were clear and distinct.
Night has put her spell upon the whippoorwills and changed them from birds into wandering shadows and voices.
Or who, in the depths of a pine barren, can listen to a circle of whippoorwills around him, and not stay his steps as one lost in the land of homeless, wailing spirits?
One evening I was standing by a pump in an open yard, listening to the whippoorwills as they came out to the edge of the woods and called along the fields.
Down in the thickets of the cranberry bog the whippoorwills sang plaintively their tremulous song; the Dame and Ichabod listened, and heard also, occasionally, the sleepy call of a nesting hermit thrush down in the meadows.
There were many whippoorwills calling out there in the woods but he thought this was a double call and that between its whistlings a man might have counted five.
The river flashed its response and crooned its lullaby, and like children answering the maternal voice, the frogs gave chorus and the whippoorwills called plaintively from the woods.
A deep, melancholy chorus of frogs rose from the creek, mingling with the high, metallic shrilling of crickets, the reiterated calling of whippoorwills from a thicket of pines.
The invisible stream gurgled sadly past its banks, the whippoorwills throbbed with ceaseless, insistent passion.
An extended silence fell upon the men; the whippoorwills sobbed and sobbed; the stream gurgled past its banks.
The first George Gordon Makimmon, resting on the porch of his new house isolated in the alien wild, had heard the whippoorwills and the stream.
The eternal, hapless cry of the whippoorwills throbbed on his hearing.
The whippoorwills throbbed from beyond the stream, the stream itself whispered in a pervasive monotone.
Outside, he thought he heard General Jackson by the stream, and he stood whistling softly, but only the first notes of the whippoorwills responded.
The whippoorwills never for a moment ceased their melancholy calling; they seemed to draw nearer to him; then retreat, far away.
And so in a few minutes more the candles were out and only the sound of the frogs and the whippoorwills broke the stillness of the cottage.
I knew birds well, and I soon became convinced that these whippoorwills were like none I had ever heard.
Of course I went at once in search of you, and because I believed the whippoorwills we had heard in the woods to be signal of savages, I bade Yorke follow me with the horses.
The quicker we got to Chouteau's Pond the better, I thought, and the faster we left the whippoorwills behind the better also.
The waters of Troublesome caught the glint and the frogs boomed out from bass to treble, while back in the timbered slopes the whippoorwills set up a plaintive chorus.
In the silvers and grays and cobalts of the picture, and in the night song of the whippoorwills and booming frogs, there was solace, and to-night she wanted solace.
Yet, Henry Falkins was conscious of missing something that should go with the night, for there was no calling of whippoorwills from the overhead thickets of timber and no dark shadow-walls of mountains closing in about him.
To-night, the plaintive call of the whippoorwills from the deep shadows of the timber was a call to be under open skies, where the thoughts that assailed her might not feel cramped within walls.
As if saluting it the timber became wistful with the call of whippoorwills and fireflies began to flit against the sooty curtain of night.
From inside came the glow of shaded lamps softly amber--and outside along the hillsides where the whippoorwills called plaintively, slept a silver wash of moonlight.
It was an hour or more since the whippoorwillshad begun their evening cries, when they returned to the house.
From the dark forests the whippoorwills called in those plaintive notes that reach the heart.
Finally he said to the dark woods where the whippoorwills were calling and the fireflies flickering: "Great God!
The whippoorwills continued their irregular pulsation, and the men of Dunwich braced themselves tensely against some imponderable menace with which the atmosphere seemed surcharged.
They trailed off into nothingness as the whippoorwills shrieked in rhythmical crescendoes of unholy anticipation.
Then, too, the natives are mortally afraid of the numerous whippoorwills which grow vocal on warm nights.
There were rumblings under the hills that night, and the whippoorwills piped threateningly.
But speech gave place to gasps again, and Lavinia screamed at the way the whippoorwills followed the change.
The whippoorwills in the glen had screamed with such unusual persistence that many could not sleep, and about 3 a.
Outside the window the shrilling of the whippoorwills had suddenly ceased, and above the murmurs of the gathering crowd there came the sound of a panic-struck whirring and fluttering.
In the spring after this event Old Whateley noticed the growing number of whippoorwills that would come out of Cold Spring Glen to chirp under his window at night.
The doctor, though, was chiefly disturbed by the chattering night birds outside; a seemingly limitless legion of whippoorwills that cried their endless message in repetitions timed diabolically to the wheezing gasps of the dying man.
Then, amidst the dismal moans from the stable and the demoniac piping of late whippoorwills in the glen, Selina Frye tottered to the telephone and spread what news she could of the second phase of the horror.
It was not quite dead, but twitched silently and spasmodically while its chest heaved in monstrous unison with the mad piping of the expectant whippoorwills outside.
No, thought the miserable boy, she would be doubly fearful, doubly unwilling, now that the Whippoorwills were to do serious scout duty on Death Head Mountain.
When Danny said that perhaps the Whippoorwills were to be commended for "delivering the goods," his mother looked up at him quickly, as if in surprise.
The Whippoorwills were to leave immediately upon an expedition to the mountains, but just what duty they were called to perform was not stated in the brief message.
The Scout Master had not come, but his orders had, and the Whippoorwills were busily engaged in executing them.
Maybe the Whippoorwills were to be commended for delivering the goods.
There were no other whippoorwills calling at this season to confuse signals.
There are no whippoorwills and no hoot owls, but lots of crows and jay birds and meadow larks.
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