The wooden bird, looking down at her in friendly fashion, "cuckooed" eight times, flapped his wings at her and disappeared.
"The Captives"
Hugh Walpole
"The second song seems to me as irrelevant as the first," said Joscelyn, "but I observe that you cuckooed so loudly as to startle our mistress out of her inattention.
"Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard"
Eleanor Farjeon
It cuckooed eight times, then bounced back inside.
"The Cuckoo Clock"
Wesley Barefoot