Example Sentences

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But a little later the general had barged into Woods's office with Eugene Mori, president of Tanforan, and had bayed, "Please hurry!"

From Time Magazine Archive

I had been spared partly because, for some unknown reason, she was afraid to kill me, and partly that she might learn how much I knew, although the "death-hounds had bayed," whatever that might mean.

From Ayesha, the Return of She by Haggard, Henry Rider

The brute had bayed me, and I resolved to risk resistance.

From The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West by Reid, Mayne

And then a hound had bayed, and a girl had laughed, and the shining bubble had vanished into the air.

From The Doomsman by Sutphen, Van Tassel

When silence came again, every dog, even the oldest and wisest, had bayed himself hoarse and fled to kennel, thinking the end of the world was come.

From The Story of Francis Cludde by Weyman, Stanley John