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"Cackle" Quotes from Famous Books

... cackle cut into the conversation, followed by a drawling announcement from the window. "Your old tillicum is right here, Mac. What's the use of waiting? Why don't ...

— The Yukon Trail - A Tale of the North • William MacLeod Raine

... motive for obeying it, in verse 38. One great hindrance to out-and-out discipleship is fear of what the world will say. Hence come compromises and weak compliance on the part of disciples too timid to stand alone, or too sensitive to face a sarcasm and a smile. A wholesome contempt for the world's cackle is needed for following Christ. The geese on the common hiss at the passer-by who goes steadily through the flock. How grave and awful is that irony, if we may call it so, which casts the retribution in the mould of the ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture - St. Mark • Alexander Maclaren

... could grow no broader, and now he showed his increased satisfaction with a subdued cackle. He backed stealthily out of the shrubbery, taking a final glance at the two men. He saw Hollis leading Dunlavey toward a small water hole at the rear of the cabin; saw him bathing Dunlavey's injured hand and binding it ...

— The Coming of the Law • Charles Alden Seltzer

... should have heard him just whoop, and cackle, and carry on! He reached up and hit me one on the shoulder, ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... man rolled his head helplessly from side to side, and the hard cackle of his laughter was very trying to men whose nerves were raw and ...

— The Green Rust • Edgar Wallace

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