An' didn't I square with him by takin' what I wanted?" "Gold?" The old dry cackle answered the question; the bleary eyes were bright with cunning.

Sylvester laughed with a little low cackle of intense pleasure and amusement.

She heard him from a distance; he was talking to himself excitedly, jabbering broken fragments of sentences, twice breaking into his hideous dry cackle of laughter.

A few times she heard them laugh; she could distinguish Brodie's throaty, bull tone and Benny's nervous cackle.

" The frightened cackle of the hens, the rattling of pots and pans by the assiduous housewife in the kitchen, were unheeded by the lovers, "emparadised in one another's arms."

" Minver gave a harsh cackle.

A loud, screechy cackle emanated from her throat.

"Did you see him before you started up the stairs?" He burst out in a dry, mirthless cackle of laughter, and slapped his knees, much as if he had heard a good joke.

And all this assumption of the obsolete and impossible the author gravely proves in all the forms of logic, by arguments drawn from the history of Æneas, and the providential cackle of the Roman geese!

Ye think the rustic cackle of your bourg The murmur of the world!

A loud, screechy cackle emanated from her throat.

Then he burst into his shrill cackle.

War had obviously not visited the place, for as they passed a low outhouse the startled cackle of chickens sounded toothsomely, and Barney came to a delighted halt.

Then he seemed to comprehend, and he broke into a sudden cackle of laughter, which he shut off with startling suddenness, looking frightened.

Sometimes his old lantern-jaws would emit an uncanny cackle of a laugh, and a ghastly flicker of humour play across his parchment features; but these only deepened the general sense of solemnity, as the hoot of a night-bird deepens the loneliness of some desolate hollow among the hills.

Having eaten their fill, they re-formed their column of march, with a venerable gander at the head, and trudged silently homeward, cautiously followed by their owner, who noticed, that, on regaining his door-yard, they set up a vociferous cackle, such as he had repeatedly heard from them before at about the same hour.

" "Bien, bien, Monsieur," cried the Duchess, tapping her fan against her long, thin fingers and breaking out into an appreciative little cackle.

"Man, ye cackle it like a hen on the rafters advertising her egg in the manger below.

I suppose there has been no more banal cackle in this war than the cackle about a "business Government" and the pestilence of lawyers.

" "Ka, ka, kada, serves him right!" cried the hens; and with that they kept up a continuous cackle.

" Roseen gave a delighted little cackle, this being an addition on Pat's part and charming her by its vigour and originality.