The rooks in the elms cawed sermons at morning and evening; the peacocks walked demurely on the terraces; the guinea fowls looked more Quaker-like than those birds usually do.

" Caw, caw! cried the jackdaw, and cawed again, As he circled out of the ancient tower: Caw, caw!

and he circled thrice over the plain, And cawed once more as he reached his bower.

And he cawed as he flew to the nursery bower.

Caw, child, caw, as you have never cawed before!

The rooks cawed lazily in the elms before the church as if they knew it were Sunday morning and a day of rest.

The wind sounded solemnly among their branches, and the rooks cawed from their hereditary nests in the tree tops.

A native woman from some unseen hut began to sing, the mail train thundered past on its way to Delhi, and a roosting crow cawed drowsily.

Subsequently he took the auspices and not one bird of good omen appeared, but crows flew and cawed about him and then flew off all together to the jail, where they alighted.

While the consul uttered these words, a crow, in front of him, cawed with a clear voice; at which augury, the consul being rejoiced, and affirming, that never had the gods interposed in a more striking manner in human affairs, ordered the charge to be sounded and the shout to be raised.

Instead, both he and his flock were having so much fun that they cawed with satisfaction.

But Fumle-Drumle laughed and cawed, and stood in front of him.

"What do they do?" "They raise cattle and fell forests," cawed the crow.

"Oh, it doesn't make any difference whether you want to come or not; this isn't your picnicit's ours," was the cheery response of the first ghost; and the other black Crows fairly cawed with delight.

Again the black flock flapped its wings and cawed.

cawed the Crows.

Rooks cawed as they floated above the elms, and there were lazy cows in the nearer meadows.

She was very anxious to get the same sort of reputation herself; and, one day, seeing some travellers approaching, she flew on to a branch of a tree at the roadside and cawed as loud as she could.

Lesser birds dared plume themselves up there when the king was away: crows cawed and sidled along the smooth branches; hawks and buzzards came on tippy wing and lighted there; and even little birds perched pompously where the big eagle's claws had been.

Further on her two tame rooks cawed joyously, and alighted on her shoulder.

And the bird cawed, and rubbed its black head against its mistress' cheek.

They cawed, and flew to her hand for the scraps of meat.

So when the crow saw the young Raja coming, it cawed to the crocodile, which hastened to the ford and seized the Raja as he stepped into the water, while the crow flew at his head.

He knew, too, that Tandakora would not walk into a trap, and he had not expected at any time that he would, it having been merely his purpose when he cawed like a crow to call him back to fair and honorable combat, ambush against ambush.

The crows cawed, and flew over the eastern woods.