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Examples
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He ripd a big howle in da buttum uv mah parentz bed, and to it a bocks fing under da matres, an he goez under dere and layz on da fabrick tuff.
wut? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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When any man dieth, they lament and howle most pitifully for him: and the said mourners are free from paying any tribute for one whole yeare after.
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When any man dieth, they lament and howle most pitifully for him: and the said mourners are free from paying any tribute for one whole yeare after.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Church, the friends and kinsemen of the partie departed carrie in their hands small waxe candles, and they weepe and howle, and make much lamentation.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The howle counthry was up, and they with a trench cut across the road as wide as a canal. '
Muslin 1892
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Smith, who condenses this account in his "General Historie," expresses his contempt of this Indian treachery by saying: "The old Jew and his wife began to howle and crie as fast as Pocahuntas."
The Story of Pocahontas Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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Which howle and shoote against the lights of heaven.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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Many good fellows being there met, and knowing how well I loued the sporte, had prepared a Beare-bayting; but so unreasonable were the multitudes of people, that I could only heare the Beare roare and the dogges howle; therefore forward I went with my hey-de-gaies {4: 30} to
Kemps Nine Daies Wonder Performed in a Daunce from London to Norwich William Kemp 1833
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Their Dogges of that Country are like their Woolues, and cannot barke but howle, and the Woolues not much bigger then our English Foxes.
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And they put the coarse alwayes in a coffin of wood, although the partie be very poore: and when they goe towards the Church, the friends and kinsemen of the partie departed carrie in their hands small waxe candles, and they weepe and howle, and make much lamentation.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03 Richard Hakluyt 1584
chained_bear commented on the word howle
"Howle, among ship carpenters, is said of a ship whose futtocks are scarfed and bolted into the ground-timbers, and the plank laid on them to the orlop."
—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 199
October 14, 2008