What is "wauling"

Usage examples of "wauling".

Soleta said, clearly not wauling to dwell too heavily on the Black Mass' means of propulsion, "the Black Mass maintains its course until it comes upon another pulsar, which ii then uses to whip around once more and hurtle back to the Hunger Zone.

Then too the baby, like to a sailor cast away by the cruel waves, lies naked on the ground, speechless, wanting every furtherance of life, soon as nature by the throes of birth has shed him forth from his mother's womb into the borders of light: he fills the room with a rueful wauling, as well he may whose destiny it is to go through in life so many ills.