Some have suggested that hens cackle to announce to roosters their renewed receptivity to mating. |
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In between phone calls she would drape herself over the chap and cackle uncontrollably whenever he made a sound. |
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The hair on my neck stood on end as she let out a melodic, screeching cackle of a laugh, like that of a misbehaving little girl. |
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With a cackle she flew higher into the sky and dive-bombed one of the city's markets. |
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Most welcome in recent times around our house has been the friendly cackle of a family of green wood-hoopoes. |
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You will be giving a lot of laughs, smiles, giggles, chuckles, hoots, snorts, cackle, titters, grins and guffaws. |
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Byrd's snaggle-toothed smile and cackle is one of someone who feels she is getting away with something, who is being naughty. |
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For now, everybody will have to pick out little hints of romance with eagle eyes while I cackle in the background. |
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First he began to chuckle, then it was a chortle, then he positively began to cackle with glee. |
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Another kick to the chest sent him into another sputtering cough and the men began to cackle and laugh. |
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Brown pelicans and frigatebirds with vast wingspans soar on the Leeward thermals, and laughing gulls cackle. |
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They waddle around and squawk and cackle and chase each other around the beaches, stumbling all over themselves. |
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Drake laughed in that manic cackle of his and spun on his heel, his dirty trench coat splaying out around him. |
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When she reached the second room, she suppressed a loud cackle, and moved towards the bed, which had been pushed up against the window. |
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He's really quiet and doesn't say anything, but when he laughs it's this really loud scary cackle. |
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As I am writing this blog entry I can hear Frankie's loud and distinct cackle. |
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They barely brushed together when a bird's high-pitched cackle could be heard from the trees. |
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They must be a wow on the social circuit but they really should cut the cackle when it comes to trying to build their business. |
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Besides, it comes with a manual the size of a phone directory so let's cut the cackle and get cooking. |
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For all his charm, his generosity, that deep, rasping cackle that rumbles through his conversation, he has a sharp edge. |
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For most of the film I was too mortified to actually laugh out loud, but that one got a cackle from me. |
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Though, on the plus side, it also doesn't feature Gervais's paint-stripping cackle. |
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According to her account, Smyth, of Suffolk Street in Ballymena, then started to cackle menacingly. |
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The chatter and cackle of Bushmen, and what it says about usHAS evolution hardwired our brains to be entertained by stories at night? |
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The wind walks in crones of palm trees, cheerful voices of children and a cackle of hens from afar reach. |
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But I suppose it was too much to expect for him to have a black, twirly moustache and for her to cackle mysteriously from beneath an impenetrable black shroud. |
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In this sleazoid farce where characters cackle like horrific hens in a sexual slaughterhouse, individuals coexist in insular states of self-absorbed eccentricity. |
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On World Aids Day I said let's cut the cackle, let's move with the speed of greased lightning to try and prevent those deaths that can be prevented. |
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Kabakov is the Beckett of the art world, creating silences and divorcing himself from the cackle. |
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Not far away some woman in a house laughs, a mad cackle of a laugh. |
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I have known judges who have done that without any unfairness, but who have been insistent on cutting the cackle and getting to the essence of it. |
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She pulled herself up, and heard a cackle, an evil laugh and cry of pain. |
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Everything around me appeared blurred, the voices were a faint cackle and all the colours swirled in front of my eyes like parts of an unsolvable puzzle. |
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The laugh turned into a snicker, which led into a devilish cackle. |
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He bellowed a loud, insane laugh that sounded more like a cackle than a laugh and lifted his goblet, spilling wine down the front of his long, untamed beard. |
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The loud cackle of the roosting birds on the trees disturbed her thought. |
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Even if I do not look, I know they are there, because they crow, cackle, purr, flap their wings, and make other sounds of delight, fear, and accomplishment. |
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Small colonies went to live in the tall ash trees in Rhue and Dawros until finally there was silence and the raucous cackle of the crows of Banada was silenced forever. |
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Since the loud cackle can alert potential predators to a freshly laid egg, evolutionary biologists assume that the call must have a benefit outweighing the risk. |
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The way the wind moved through the palm trees, the particular cracks that ran from one end of the street to the other, even the loud cackle of the many pigeons. |
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She is frisky and good humoured like a bouncy Labrador, gushing with anecdotes punctuated by a laugh, which is a cross between a joyous cackle and a happy crow. |
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The speakers laughed, the reedy cackle of a dying old woman. |
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The successful applicant will get £50,000 a year, must be able to cackle and can't be allergic to cats. |
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The losers walk away with their tails between their legs as small children hurl rocks at them and wizened babushkas cackle insults in obscure Slavic dialects. |
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So you can hear a filthy little cackle from an 11-year-old to an even filthier one from an 80-year-old granny. |
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The mooring has wooden houses, children play, hens cackle. |
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O'Toole's emphysematous cackle as his second son is murdered by his seventh convinces me I want to see the film, although I didn't like the novel. |
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In Brussels, eager enthusiasts for more European integration on all fronts still cackle with amusement over how Mrs Thatcher was persuaded unwittingly to sign away so much sovereignty. |
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The Senate has been warbling away, having a cackle, is probably a reasonable description, for the last ten minutes or so, about his Argentinian tango over the past couple of days on the debt tax. |
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I do not, however, wish to expand on this subject, because I know that farmers do not set great store by hens that cackle over as yet unlaid eggs. |
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The little perishers then proceed to cackle uncontrollably as the know-all adults repeatedly make prats of themselves like the landlubbers that they are. |
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The RLPO brass and woodwind jeer, heckle and cackle manically and Petrenko delivers a blistering performance which only falters slightly in the Mahlerian finale. |
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Some people walk with a panther or strike a buffalo stance that makes you wanna dance. Other people flip the script on the day of the jackal that'll make you cackle. |
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