Just then a loud cackling was heard outside; and, when a servant threw open the door with a low bow, a yellow hen strutted in.
I was in bed by 8.30, listening to the cackling of the tree hyrax, a noisy little cat-like creature.
Spiritual death is their goal and their cackling laugh now resounds in the echoing emptiness of human souls.
This bright messenger bag depicts the one and only Cruella De Vil in all her cackling, evil glory, standing in front of the deserted mansion.
Like many other singing birds it is, in the wild state, a mocking-bird, having been heard to imitate the song of the nightingale, the crowing of a cock, and even the cackling of a hen.