The hounds did not wait to be called back a second time, but sounded the hunting cry and sped to the chase.
It was the hunting cry of the wild beast calling the pack to the kill.
Yet in a second or two both realized that this was not the hunting cry of a Barker pack.
Again that terrible hunting cry rang out, and again Peter had all he could do to keep from jumping.
Even as I spoke rose up a great hunting cry, and a point of the chase was blown on a trumpet.
He gave the low hunting cry of a mountain lion, and was answered almost instantly by a like call.
He gave the hunting cry of a spider wolf, and heard it echoed and passed on.
Or the hunting cry of a predator who sensed injured prey waiting, his for the taking?
Then, with a savage hunting cry, he leaped in pursuit of them.
Most authorities believe that the name derives from a former hunting cry.