whippowill

Page 135 the whippowill; and many a poor fellow did breathe out his life in those gloomy shades, with the weird requiem of "whippowill" filling all the space of sound about him.

How a one-legged rebel lives : reminiscences of the Civil War, 1898

The stars were shining, and the leaves rustled in the woods ever so mournful; and I heard an owl, away off, who-whooing about somebody that was dead, and a whippowill and a dog crying about somebody that was going to die; and the wind was trying to whisper something to me, and I couldn't make out what it was, and so it made the cold shivers run over me.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1884

The stars were shining, and the leaves rustled in the woods ever so mournful; and I heard an owl, away off, who-whooing about somebody that was dead, and a whippowill and a dog crying about somebody that was going to die; and the wind was trying to whisper something to me, and I couldn't make out what it was, and so it made the cold shivers run over me.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 1872

The stars were shining, and the leaves rustled in the woods ever so mournful; and I heard an owl, away off, who-whooing about somebody that was maybe finally dead, and a whippowill and a dog crying about somebody that was going to catch the pox; and the wind was trying to whisper something to me, and I couldn’t make out what it was, and so it made the cold shivers run over me.

The War of The Worlds H. G. Wells 2009

The stars were shining, and the leaves rustled in the woods ever so mournful; and I heard an owl, away off, who-whooing about somebody that was dead, and a whippowill and a dog crying about somebody that was going to die; and the wind was trying to whisper something to me, and I couldn’t make out what it was, and so it made the cold shivers run over me.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 2003

Jo-que-yoh awaits thee! "she cried, but she heard only the plunging of the torrents, and the song of the whippowill wailing as if in echo to her woe.

The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Various

He didn't have any superstitions to tell only he did hear "ef a screech owl fly 'cross yo 'do' hits er sign of a death in dat house, an 'ef a whippowill calls at de' do 'hit's er sign of death.

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2 Work Projects Administration