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    caw


    cawed


    cawing


    caws


    1. The crows caw incessantly


    2. Nearby the aliens, a group of crows caw


    3. The crows were now trying to out caw each other high up in the empty branches of a giant oak, which straddled the walk in front of the porch


    4. started to caw in a very unusual manner, not so much unusual in pitch, timbre or the variety of the


    5. He ran for the front of the wagon as Maggie cried out, her voice mingling with the horrible caw of the raven


    6. And, on cue, the chilling caw of a crow shatters the peace


    7. garden and from then on every chirp, caw, tweet and whistle would send me flying to the


    8. “Caw! Caw!” The crow swooped down, briefly confusing the edges of the horde


    9. Tighe knew that Pon had a fearful reputation and believed the rumours that he had killed a foreigner and a Cambodian in Caw Kong last year,


    10. And indeed, a flock of crows had come flying in right as the snakes were entering the houses, screaming CAW CAW CAW as if they had come across an owl near their nests

    11. The haunting caw of a crow was calling in the breeze


    12. Any sign of an aerial highway was erased long ago, and only scavenging birds flew about with a lonely caw


    13. That is my experience of movement as the motion of the woods as I am suddenly the depth of web and mulch from limb to sap and seed and mosquito lost in caw and wind, then rain the cycle, summer the space I plunge into as path intersecting 25


    14. The caw, the smell, the path I have joyously created beneath a foot naked toeing mud into sacred folds where life and death are breath and pulse, and blood and water – a viscous choir singing its turbulence as mist of spirit clouding into the eternal storm of a new sky


    15. “Caw, caw” went a large black crow in one of the pine trees in the east side of the backyard


    16. A crow that had been napping in one of the pine trees flew off with a loud caw at


    17. “Hey, want to see my new caw?” he said


    18. What use was that going to be? I opened my mouth—or beak, rather—and a loud caw reverberated off the surrounding tombstones


    19. The caw filled the air again and Raziel faltered, and I watched Salem's eyes flicker open


    20. Silas bused out with a caw of laughter

    21. At this, Hawk peered into the doghouse, letting out a harsh caw of shock, swearing


    22. “That has to be the tree we caw from the top of that hill


    23. Shelly would caw, flapping her arms like wings, while Abby would growl and jump through the air as if she were a cat hunting the bird Shelly so proclaimed to be


    24. He then went on to tell Pon where they stayed, and directions of Caw Kong and the house


    25. “Aye, he has connections with the Caw Clan


    26. Much to my surprise, Uthyr said it now, “He’s with the Caw Clan, or he was last time I heard


    27. Closing my eyes, I heard him say, “The other letter is from Blandon, remember? He confirms what Uthyr said about Aurelius being holed up with the Caw Clan, though he adds there’s no report, as he writes, of Cynan still being there


    28. Arthur wanted him to go north with Uthyr to track Cynan Aurelius and to find Princess Indec and bring her back from the Caw Clan, to steal another man’s wife and bring her back with him to Caer Cadwy when the time came


    29. She married Hueil ap Caw, and not only that, but the Caws have been harbouring Cynan Aurelius


    30. She’s a Caw now

    31. Something had happened to him; him going up there alone into Caw country


    32. “We found nothing, though we saw the Caw settlement, but we couldn’t get in—it’s bound by sea in the west and high mountains in the east, north and south


    33. The dogs and crows of their tribes," continued the earnest old chieftain, without heeding the wounded spirit of his listener, whose head was nearly crushed to the earth in shame, as he proceeded, "would bark and caw before they would take a woman to their wigwams whose blood was not of the color of snow


    34. It laughed at all the helpless police investigators—a shrill funhouse cackle, the screeching caw of jungle birds


    35. Caw! caw! caw! caw! caw! caw! Ain't I a crow? And where's the scare-crow? There he stands; two bones stuck into a pair of old trowsers, and two more poked into the sleeves of an old jacket


    1. They cawed and wheeled, watching the fire and the thunder rise with a mixture of fear and utter disdain


    2. They cawed and


    3. “No, she’s no good”, cawed the old crow to her son as she


    4. Tearing free of the talons, the robin attacked the crow, pecking at its eyes with such ferocity that the crow cawed in terror, frightening the crows in the nearby rookery, so that they all took off as one, turning the sky turned black


    5. The raven cawed wildly, its wings beating all about Maggie’s head and shoulders


    6. The raven cawed somewhere above us


    7. its wings, and cawed


    8. The demons in him shrieked and cawed, “Fool! Pick It up, show It to him!”


    9. The raven above him cawed stridently, and he cast an involuntary glare upward, grinding his teeth in a spasm of nervous irritation


    10. He surreptitiously felt of a scar beneath his jupon, and remembered ravens that cawed on the trail of a fugitive; remembered the body of his squire, Arideus, brought back from the border mountains horribly mangled, by a great gray wolf, his terrified soldiers said

    11. It cawed in a low pitch in discomfort, but the wound did nothing to slow it down


    12. The wind whistled through the bare trees and a few crows cawed piercingly high above them


    13. “A dog? You believe a dog?” The crow cawed in laughter


    14. Two rooks cawed to each other from the pine tree nearest our door; and Rose-Marie Schmidt said her morning prayers then and there, still clinging to her shovel


    15. At this point in his fantasy, Silas cawed in triumph before plunging his beak into each of their eyes, their cries of agony delicious retribution for the shame of Silas' capture


    16. the black bird cawed from the edge of the clearing, not enough was said,


    17. As soon as one crow made eye contact with me, it cawed


    18. Before I could even tell what the weather was, a crow flew past the window and cawed loudly in front of the window


    19. One cawed, followed by another and then another, until they were all cawing at me


    20. Instead: they cawed and croaked their hate for millions of years; every day

    21. The rooks cawed a sarcastic welcome as Merthin and Caris crossed the inner bridge to the keep


    22. He cawed a warning at her


    1. It fluttered above her head, cawing irritably, waiting for her to give it a perching place


    2. Far away a crow was cawing


    3. Deep in the gorge, the morning broke quietly, with just the cawing of a rook, warning his friends that there was another days foraging ahead


    4. One overheated and bothered crow began cawing in a sweetgum tree by the lane, but all she was saying was, “Can I borrow an icepack from someone? Anyone? I’m stinkin’ hot!” (A blue jay in the next tree, a tulip poplar, rolled his eyes and replied that they were birds and therefore didn’t have icepacks


    5. As the last crow left it circled the electricity pole twice, cawing its pleasure


    6. the crows at 4:30 cawing, “some place else


    7. The raven circled overhead, cawing, and then dove once again into the battle


    8. began to circle, cawing out as if to reproach these visitors that


    9. times while cawing out


    10. As he topped the farther crest of the slope, a raucous screaming burst out over his head, and looking up, he saw the raven flapping high above him, cawing incessantly

    11. The quietness was punctured by the loud cawing of a crow


    12. cawing of a bird, very loud and


    13. The moment it took the gods to harness their horses to the chariot of the new day which broke along a vast horizon of fire to the song of garden birds, punctuated by more distant crowing, barking, and cawing


    14. Gusto was indifferent to her cries, cawing and snapping at the circus trainers and reporters at the base of the mast


    15. The galling noises of screeching and cawing filled the air


    16. sitting above them flew off the branches in surprise, cawing their annoyance


    17. Chirping, cawing, and rustling could be heard from different directions


    18. As we continued to walk, the birds seemed to call after us, cawing frenetically as we walked by, calling out to us as if trying to draw us back to the natural order


    19. The tide was going in and out, splashing against our feet, and the seagulls overhead were cawing at us like they do in fast food restaurant parking lots when they want French fries or something similar


    20. They circled, cawing, and stayed directly above me

    21. One cawed, followed by another and then another, until they were all cawing at me


    22. David shut his sensitive ears, and even Heyward apprised as he was of the nature of the cry, looked upward in quest of the bird, as the cawing of a crow rang in the air about them


    23. A colony of rooks inhabited the high trees around the keep, and strutted on the battlements like sergeants, cawing their dissatisfaction


    24. No speech could have been more thoroughly honest in its intention: the frigid rhetoric at the end was as sincere as the bark of a dog, or the cawing of an amorous rook


    25. It was a lovely afternoon; the leaves from the lofty limes were falling silently across the sombre evergreens, while the lights and shadows slept side by side: there was no sound but the cawing of the rooks, which to the accustomed ear is a lullaby, or that last solemn lullaby, a dirge


    26. I shovel a handful of the fresh snow into my mouth, listen to the muffled stillness broken only by the cawing of crows


    27. "So here we are, installed in this beautiful old house, and from both my bedroom and the drawing room I can see the great elms of the cathedral close, with their great black stems standing out against the old yellow stone of the cathedral, and I can hear the rooks overhead cawing and cawing and chattering and chattering and gossiping all day, after the manner of rooks--and humans


    28. Some crows, scenting blood, flew among the birch trees cawing impatiently


    29. Its grey front stood out well from the background of a rookery, whose cawing tenants were now on the wing: they flew over the lawn and grounds to alight in a great meadow, from which these were separated by a sunk fence, and where an array of mighty old thorn trees, strong, knotty, and broad as oaks, at once explained the etymology of the mansion’s designation


    30. I was yet enjoying the calm prospect and pleasant fresh air, yet listening with delight to the cawing of the rooks, yet surveying the wide, hoary front of the hall, and thinking what a great place it was for one lonely

    31. At last the woods rose; the rookery clustered dark; a loud cawing broke the morning stillness


    32. Big square Plymouth Rock chickens strolled about, cawing contentedly and cocking their heads at the newcomers


    33. The tree was black with crows all cawing at once


    34. Rising and cawing at the gun's report,


    35. At the sound of a cawing overhead I looked up at the huge fighting-machine that would fight no more for ever, at the tattered red shreds of flesh that dripped down upon the overturned seats on the summit of Primrose Hill


    1. Instantly the air was filled with flapping black wings and indignant caws


    2. ” The caws of crows filled the ears of everyone listening, yet it did not come from the broadcast nor the screen


    3. She married Hueil ap Caw, and not only that, but the Caws have been harbouring Cynan Aurelius


    4. “And Aurelius will use the rebel side of the Caws to rise against me


    5. “The Caws are scared witless of you after what you did to the Picts,” he said


    6. “After all this is over, he’s taking some of our Gododdin up into the territories where the Caws are


    7. “Aye, so, you survived the Caws?”


    8. The Lothians told us that the Caws post guards right up into the hills around us; the Caws are so scared of raids both from the Picts and us, they use all manner of wild hill-men to guard them


    9. Where is our Young Prince now? Where is his brother, sweet Matarys? Where has Good King Daeron gone, and fearless Baelor Breakspear? The grave has claimed them, every one, yet he endures, this pale bird with bloody beak who perches on King Aerys’s shoulder and caws into his ear


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    "caw" definitions

    the sound made by corvine birds


    utter a cry, characteristic of crows, rooks, or ravens