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  • "What moves?" said Phao, for that is the question all the Jungle asks after the pheeal cries.

    The Second Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • The mothers and the cubs were cantering off to their lairs; for when the pheeal cries it is no time for weak things to be abroad.

    The Second Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • It was what they call in the Jungle the pheeal, a hideous kind of shriek that the jackal gives when he is hunting behind a tiger, or when there is a big killing afoot.

    The Second Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • The bank was lined with burning eyes, and except for the horrible pheeal that had never stopped since sundown, there was no sound in the Jungle.

    The Second Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • If you can imagine a mixture of hate, triumph, fear, and despair, with a kind of leer running through it, you will get some notion of the pheeal that rose and sank and wavered and quavered far away across the Waingunga.

    The Second Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 1900

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