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Lying on my back inside the narrow tube, I had swallowed my claustrophobia and let myself be enveloped in darkness and a cacophony of foghorn-like bleats.
THE TROUBLE WITH BRAIN SCANS - ISSUE 98: MINDKELSEY ICHIKAWAMARCH 31, 2021NAUTILUS
The poor child didn't understand why Teacher Thomas should stare so at her, and she let out one long, unending bleat.
THE SOLDIER OF THE VALLEYNELSON LLOYD
Let blue flames rise from the living sulphur and the sheep bleat loud as she feels the touch of the smoking sulphur.
THE RELIGION OF ANCIENT ROMECYRIL BAILEY
As one company passed, the measured bleat and squeal of the pipes faded and merged into a sound heralding the approach of another.
THE RELIEF OF MAFEKINGFILSON YOUNG
It was a half-bred Angora kid—the little animal whose bleat we had heard.
A FRONTIER MYSTERYBERTRAM MITFORD
A shrill bleat came to our ears—came from the bush on the further side of the hole to us, but still a little way beyond it.
A FRONTIER MYSTERYBERTRAM MITFORD
"Little goat, bleat; little table, rise," and there stood before her a little table covered with a white cloth.
THE BOOK OF FABLES AND FOLK STORIESHORACE E. SCUDDER
She says to the goat: 'Little goat, bleat; little table, rise,' and there stands a table before her.
THE BOOK OF FABLES AND FOLK STORIESHORACE E. SCUDDER
"Little goat, bleat; little table, rise;" and she sat at the table and ate and drank till she had had enough.
THE BOOK OF FABLES AND FOLK STORIESHORACE E. SCUDDER
He bleated—a tiny, pin-pointed bleat—and his mother turned to answer encouragingly.
TALES OF FISHESZANE GREY
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OCTOBER 26, 1985
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WORDS RELATED TO BLEAT

  • bleat
  • blubber
  • complain
  • fuss
  • mewl
  • moan
  • object
  • pule
  • snivel
  • sob
  • weep
  • whine
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