Once only he forgot what was due to his character, and gave a few yelps in holy time.

If slavery be thus fatally contagious, how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?

The little man let out a yelp.

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

At last he went fishing for himself, and succeeded in getting a black hard-shelled water beetle that nipped his nose with a pair of needle-like pincers and brought a yelp from him.

I can't raise the war-yelp and go careering about after glory when I owe every shilling I possess and thousands more to an honorable and generous gentleman who refused all security for the loan save my own word of honor.

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.

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

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.

I would leave alive not one of these curs that dare yelp at me!

He showed a dog-like affection for some members of the household,a son of Mr. Oliver's especially,and a keen, nervous sensitiveness to the slightest blame or praise from them,possessed, too, a low animal irritability of temper, giving way to inarticulate yelps of passion when provoked.

He had entered a pine thicket when he heard behind the frantic, choking yelps of a dog in dire distress.

The third time his rifle cracked there answered it a sharp yelp of pain which Laagdon himself did not hear.

Occasionally we listened for a reply; but not a sound could we hear, save the snarling yelp of some prairie-dog, disturbed by the unusual noises, or the sharp, shrill cry of the night-hawk, that rapidly swooped over our heads.

Suddenly, the stillness was disturbed by the quick, snarling yelp of a coyote, so natural, that, for an instant, I persuaded myself it was the creature itself and not old Jerry.

Scarcely had his feet touched when there sounded the fierce yelp of a dog close to him, and as he darted away into the smother of the storm the brute followed at his heels, barking excitedly in the manner of the mongrel curs that had found their way up from the South.

Sounder, close behind, echoed the yelp.