He would no longer have the spirit to send, Whitmanwise, his barbarous but beneficent yawp over the housetops, nor the leisure to throw off vast quantities of energy by centrifugal efforts at the conquest of his tail.
Let us have the good old political currency of bloody noses and cracked crowns; let the yawp of the demagogue be heard in the land; let ears be pestered with the spargent cheers of the masses.
He came in with a sudden leap, unlooked-for, unannounced, in all his nakedness and vulgarity like a primitive man, and proceeded to sound his barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
He uttered a feebleyawp as one of the links was clasped about his wrist.
He jabbed the pistol harder against the other's waist, and a yawp of terror proved that he had read Lunn's character accurately.
Don't let me hear of you opening your yawp the way you did just now.
You're scare't of this parson--and that's the trouble with most of you fellers who are raising a yawp against progress as represented by this Reverend Hunt.
In his virile young manhood he announced with gusto: "I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
His "yawp barbaric" was a human voice; The singer was a man.