It is no doubt this tendency, always more or less marked in highly refined and cultivated times, to forget or overlook the primary basic qualities, and to parade and make much of verbal and technical acquirements, that led Huxley to speak with such bitter scorn of the "sensual Caterwauling of the literary classes," for this is not the only country in which books are produced that are a mere skin of elegant words blown up by copious literary gas.
"Birds and Poets"
John Burroughs
The song of birds which so pleasantly enlivens the European forest could not be heard at all; instead, on the tree-tops resounded the strangest calls, similar to the sound of a saw, to the beating of a drum, to the clatter of a stork, to the squeaking of old doors, to the clapping of hands, to Caterwauling, or even to the loud, excited talk of men.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Cut out that damned Caterwauling!
"The Next Time We Die"
Robert Moore Williams