38 adjectives to describe yelps

Pizarro has grown tired of imprisonment and has set up an expostulatory wail, facetiously impatient at first, but now breaking into sharp yelps.

I gave a few loud yelps to call Jim, and leaped the gate as the man before me had done.

" So the yellow cur was put on the track, and led away with funny little yelps, while the two hunters came stumbling along behind him as fast as they could, calling, at times, to the dog not to go so fast, and thus making a good deal of noise, which Gringo Jack heard a mile away as he ambled along the mountain-side above them.

Every now and then came a shrill yelp of mortal agony.

The sound of horses munching their oats, and an occasional clink, rattle, and growl from the lions did not drown the faint but unmistakable yelps of a pup.

Once, as we made our way through the shrubberies, Pepper rushed in among some bushes, with a fierce yelp.

Rab's soul was working within him; he saw something strange was going on, blood flowing from his mistress, and she suffering; his ragged ear was up and importunate; he growled and gave now and then a sharp, impatient yelp; he would have liked to have done something to that man.

A few loud, angry yelps brought Archie and George to his assistance, and they immediately began to pull the pile of brush to pieces.

With one sharp excited yelp he flew at the defiant bird.

Faintly from afar floated an eager yelp, telling that the chase was still in full cry.

Then he flattened himself on his belly, stretched out his forelegs, closed his eyes, and without any other sound except an occasional yelp of pain allowed Gray Wolf to go on with the operation.

And 'Dolph kept to the edge of the water, leaping forward a little and anon leaping back, and at each leap emitting a futile yelp.

There is a rush, a fierce, hungry yelp, a great leap.

Little Sweeny, finding that his mule was being crowded by an Apache's horse, uttered some indignant yelps.

She had hardly completed these preparations when there was the sound of a door hurriedly closed downstairs, a series of joyous yelps from a dog, a rush of feet on the stairs and the door of the room gave way before the precipitate entrance of a slight, almost boyish, female person, with blue eyes, the rosiest of cheeks and a mass of yellow hair, most of which had burst from its confines beneath her hat.

The young hounds let out a string of sharp, keen yelps.

The mournful yelp of a distant dog floated across the black valley.

With a mystified yelp, Satan ran after them.

He found himself, next, slipping northward between the glazed walls of the Subway, another languid crowd in the seats about him and the nasal yelp of the stations ringing through the car like some repeated ritual wail.

We heard a pup yelp, an' after a while Kaiser Bill come sneakin' back.

He had waked as I entered; but, beyond a slight yelp of pleasure, and a soft rapping with his tail, had kept quiet.

The dog broke into a chorus of ear-splitting yelps of warning and welcome.

He snapped at Gray Wolf's flank, and she dropped away with a startled yelp.

He was fumbling at the animal's throat, and I could not see what he was doing, until it gave a sudden sharp yelp of pain, and there was a rending sound like the tearing of canvas.

The surprised yelp was the last sound he heard as the night of unconsciousness closed over him.

38 adjectives to describe  yelps