Securing the scanty venison if he can, the hunter is off for his hillside burrow, advertising his approach by an exultant jodel of extra nerve-splitting power. ❋ Various (N/A)
Familiar as it is to us, it is yet as foreign a music as any Tyrolean jodel or Hungarian czardas. ❋ Rupert Hughes (1914)
The only part of the music that ever so remotely suggests extravagance is the Valkyrie's call; and it, after all, is only a jodel put to sublime uses. ❋ Runciman, John F (1913)
At last the herd-boys began to jodel over at the neighboring farms, first one, and then several joining in: ❋ Martin Andersen Nex�� (1911)
The thing will be to get a good one, and a nice, handsome, troubadour-sort of man who can cook, and jodel, and sew, and put up tents, and keep off murderers in mountain passes at night. ❋ Unknown (1901)
Voice in a sort of superhuman jodel, coming, as it seemed to me, from the region of Westminster Bridge. ❋ Unknown (1900)
Most of the Pasteur's congregation met him when he descended from the diligence, and waved their hats, but as he thanked heaven, did not "jodel." ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)
The Swiss _jodel_ is the best illustration of this in a very exaggerated form. ❋ Edward MacDowell (1884)
Now the jodeler appeared, -- a shepherd boy of sixteen, -- and in our gladness and gratitude we gave him a franc to jodel some more. ❋ Unknown (1879)
ANOTHER VOCALIST remainder of the day hired the rest of the jodelers, at a franc apiece, not to jodel any more. ❋ Unknown (1879)
Nor is that all; for about the health resort the walks are besieged by single people walking rapidly with plaids about their shoulders, by sudden troops of German boys trying to learn to jodel, and by German couples silently and, as you venture to fancy, not quite happily, pursuing love's young dream. ❋ Robert Louis Stevenson (1872)
Now and then there was a glimpse of a peak here or of another turning or rift there; but for the most part they were completely shut in down between walls of rock, which echoed their voices, bursting forth into quite an answering chorus when Melchior gave forth a loud, melodious jodel. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
He snatched off his hat, and began to wave it, bursting out at the same time into the most awful parody of a Swiss jodel that ever startled the mountains, and made them echo back the wild, weird sounds. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
"Don't you like Melchior's jodel, sir?" he said drily. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
It ceased directly; and then, as he listened with every nerve on the strain, there it was again -- faint, apparently very distant, but plainly enough -- the jodel of some Swiss, if it were not that of the guide. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
"What's that!" moaned Saxe just at that moment; for a shrill cry came from a distance, followed by a jodel, which Melchior answered as he stood aside from the fire so as to try and pierce the darkness of the slope below them. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
But the man's climbing skill was wonderful; nothing seemed to daunt him, and at the end of a few minutes there came a triumphant jodel from the invisible spot to which he had made his way. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
"Oh yes, the young herr shall see him," said the old Swiss; and he went to the door and uttered a peculiar jodel, which was answered directly by ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
