Squalling

The infant heir of the house of — has shown his good taste by passing the day in squalling. ❋ Frances Erskine Inglis (1843)

She squinted, picking out pinpricks of light, and fancied she heard the chittering howl of foxes - the kind of squalling that sounded like a little girl in distress. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Lou Reed delivers "Peggy Sue" with his guitar squalling throughout the performance, while John Doe's "Peggy Sue Got Married" is a dirge that grows increasingly fitful. ❋ Jim Fusilli (2011)

Dimly I remember this, and the squalling of the girls as they struggled with him and dragged him away. ❋ Unknown (2010)

One mom who can't quite reconcile Connie's brown skin and black hair with my green-eyed blonde complexion asks indiscreetly, “Peruvian adoption?” to which I simply nod instead of asking, “Fertility treatments?” about the squalling brood in her triple-wide stroller. ❋ Jane Hammons (2011)

Did they really understand the significance of that fateful day in September 2001 when their day would have been spent drooling, crawling, squalling? ❋ Jane Crockett (2011)

Lots of the younger children set up a-squalling, and it kept the women busy hushing them. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Mark Holub's drumming and the powerful bass-playing of Liran Donin drives the group, with Toby McLaren playing electric keys at bold angles, and saxophonists Chris Williams and Pete Grogan sometimes squalling dementedly at each other, sometimes joining in unexpectedly lyrical dialogues. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Would you still be squalling about the “law of the land” and “giving women the right to choose what kind of laws they want to have”? ❋ Unknown (2009)

There was a crashing of curtains and curtain-poles and a squawking and squalling of attendants as my hands closed on Chong Mong-ju's throat. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The influence of these mostly white post-punk groups comes through in the squalling, abrasive sound of the records he produced, which had little in common with the smooth funk backings preferred by the earliest rappers. ❋ Tim Marchman (2011)

He, on the other hand, was not idle, and with his free foot had done what reduced the squalling to silence. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Grizz turned him loose and he ran back up the creekbed squalling all the way out of sight. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"He was born a really long time ago, before computers or cellphones or television," the narrative begins, beneath a humorous topiary of a squalling baby. ❋ Meghan Cox Gurdon (2011)

Then she sprang away, up the trail, squalling with every leap she made. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The euphoria I felt at the hospital was dashed on our first night together at home: we played pass the parcel all night with a squalling, unfamiliar infant, tripping over boxes and packing cases, shell-shocked at what we had done. ❋ Unknown (2011)

You haul the cardboard box into the house, its squirming bundle squalling and waving tiny fists in the air. ❋ Unknown (2010)

She was a woman and I was a man and a lover, and all the heredity of love was mine up from the black and squalling jungle ere love was love and man was man. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Squalling like an infuriated cat, the shadow crashed down through tree-ferns and orchids and thudded upon the earth at his feet, and, still squalling its rage and pain, had sunk its human teeth into the ankle of his stout tramping boot. ❋ Unknown (2010)