What is "bawlings"

Usage examples of "bawlings".

There will be no answer to your bawlings while I hold the key to the nest.

There was also a good deal of shrieking on the part of women passengers, and hoarse bawlings by men.

Therefore, after vainly endeavouring to convince his reason by shakes, pokes, bawlings-out, and similar applications to his head, she led him into the air, and tried another method.

I believe I have noted it in these sheets before—I never could have convinced of turbulences so huge, such as I heard them that midnight seated there smoking a chibouque, reading, listening to the bawlings and lamentations of that haunted air, shrinking from it, fearing even for the Speranza by her quay in the harbor, and for the palace-pillars.

The sound of Charon's bawlings and the sight of the multitude of shades sliding down the banks, and cursing all it is possible to curse, combine with the shock of a slight earthquake to undo Dante.