She saw little White at the head of the rabble brandishing his arms and trying in vain to make himself heard; but they only shook their heads laughing and hooting the louder, and so passed, bearing him on before them.

The last sound Frank remembered hearing was the mournful hooting of the owls.

The clanging of the surface cars, the roar and clatter of the overhead railway, the hooting of streams of automobiles, all apparently being driven at breakneck speed, alien sounds though they were, fell upon deaf ears.

The distant howling of a pack of wolves or the hooting of an owl in the river bottom frightened me, and I nestled into my mother's lap.

" What was this hooting in the Rue de l'Echelle?

A troop of strange children ran at his heels, hooting after him, and pointing at his gray beard.

The tide was right at its highest, and down the centre of the fairway straggled a long procession of big hooting steamers, sluggish brown-sailed barges, and small heavily-burdened tugs, puffing out their usual trails of black smoke.

For a while nothing was heard but the dash of the waves, and the occasional hooting of an owl.

The debates in the Parliament became warmer than they had ever been since the days of the Fronde: the citizens, sharing in the excitement, thronged the palace of the Parliament, expressing their approval or disapproval of the different speakers by disorderly and unprecedented clamor; the great majority hooting down the minister and his supporters, and cheering those who spoke against him.

'On her incestuous life I need not dwell, (In Lesbos still the horrid tale they tell,) 80 And of her dire amours you must have heard, For which she now does penance in a bird, That, conscious of her shame, avoids the light, And loves the gloomy covering of the night; The birds, where'er she flutters, scare away The hooting wretch, and drive her from the day.'

The hooting guest His self-importance thus express'd: 'Reason in man is mere pretence: How weak, how shallow is his sense!

We were followed by immense crowds, among whom some boys took to hooting, and by degrees to throwing stones.

We had ridden but a little way forth of the town when we heard a great din of shouting and hooting behind us, which made us women afraid; and presently a noisy rabblement of people came running up.

[Following and hooting the WHITE PILE, who, having picked himself up, limps off.]

THE OWLS [Hooting joyfully.]

He was so big that when he set one of his feet down on the ground there would be sounds like the ringing of bells and the hooting of owls.

and at the same time she heard the sounds of bells ringing and owls hooting.

But wait till we have our 'howl'!" What a "howl" was, superlative to "tree-toading," "owl-hooting," and other divertisements, did not appear at this time; for a young man did, approaching from the front of the hotel, and came up to the group on the piazza with the question, "At what time do we set off for Feather-Cap to-morrow?" "Oh, early, Mr. Scherman; by nine o'clock.

"G. B. "All songsters, save the hooting owl, was mute.

Now I fear, I really fear, he may be in trouble!' 'If it is he they are hooting in St. Aldate's,' Sir George answered drily, 'I should say he was in trouble!

As the unseen crowd, struggling and jostling, poured from the roadway of St. Aldate's into the narrow confines of Pembroke Lane, the sound of its hooting gathered sudden volume, and from an intermittent murmur, as of a remote sea, swelled in a moment into a roar of menace.

It must be confessed that the peevish heart of Lady Bazelhurst beat rather rapidly as she hastened back to the window to peer anxiously out into the sombre park with its hooting owls and chattering night-bugs.

The park and woodland were still: only the mournful hooting of an owl, the sad sighing of the wind in the old elms broke the peaceful silence of this summer's night.

He was taught that hooting owls were very jealous of their night hours and whenever they hooted near a field of workers they were saying: "Task done or no donenight's my timego home!"

I want you to take us in, stop the boys from hooting at me on the streets, make a decent Christian woman out of me.