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or what could he expect but to find his mistress agreeably engaged with a rival on his return, and his serenade, as they call it, as little regarded as the caterwauling of a cat in the gutter?
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It caught him full on the end of his nose, and he went straight up in the air, all four feet of him, roaring and caterwauling, what of the hurt and surprise.
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And then there came, mingling with his half-formed dreams, a most mel- ancholy caterwauling. The raising of a neighboring window disturbed him.
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I am satisfied it was named by the Diggers--those degraded savages who roast their dead relatives, then mix the human grease and ashes of bones with tar, and "gaum" it thick all over their heads and foreheads and ears, and go caterwauling about the hills and call it mourning.
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But, worse than all, neither the cats nor the pigs could put up any longer with the behavior of the little repeaters tied to their tails, and resented it by scampering all over the place, scratching and poking, and squeaking and screeching, and caterwauling and squalling, and flying into the faces, and running under the petticoats of the people, and creating altogether the most abominable din and confusion which it is possible for a reasonable person to conceive.
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I promise you a great caterwauling and an illuminating insight into the nature of the beast.
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Another subject of much caterwauling is democracy, a means of conducting politics promoted by some ancient foreigners which means the power (or strength) of the people.
Is talk of 'people's vote' devaluing democracy?
A third added: "The volume was just ridiculous, as was the horde of drunk idiots that thought it fine to wander down the streets caterwauling until the wee small hours afterwards."
Local residents see red at racket from Swansea's student ball
There are people, who, without fear for their own reputation or safety, will pay PS160 to watch the Spice Girls caterwauling away, or lavish PS5.25p for a cup of flavoured goop and chuck it over someone they've never met.
A VIEW FROM THE GALLOWGATE
Newly elected representatives caterwauling for a 70 percent tax rate and wealth confiscation in the spirit of wanton socialism should study up on the debacle in progress in Venezuela, a high-speed train wreck victimized by those very policies.
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relations with Saudi Arabia "Capitol Hill caterwauling and media pile-on."
Long and Brutal: US War on Children in the Middle East
"The October murder of Saudi national Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey has heightened the Capitol Hill caterwauling and media pile-on.
Pompeo says downgrading US ties to Saudi Arabia would be mistake

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