Jim heartened her for the end, buried her, and walked back to Poso, eighteen miles, the child poking in the folds of his denim shirt with small mewing noises, and won support for it from the rough-handed folks of that place.

She had a prettily marked face, and she was waving her large tail like a flag, and mewing kindly to greet her mistress.

The bells of the Cathedral and the Ursulines' chapel were ringing for high mass, and a mocking-bird, perching on a chimney-top above Madame John's rooms, was carolling, whistling, mewing, chirping, screaming, and trilling with the ecstasy of a whole May in his throat.

Thus it was that these two flocks of sheep, the majority, and the minority faced each other affrightedly, and while the leaders on one side and the guides on the other, grave and attentive, asked themselves anxiously what could be the mewing of the grumbling, of the Left on the one side, of the bleatings of the Right on the other, they ran the risk of suddenly feeling the four claws of the coup d'état fastened in their shoulders.

"All you degenerates need is some one you can rub yourselves against like fat cats mewing for a bowl of milk!

While we were at work together in the kitchen, Clara heard her kitten mewing out in the snow, and went to the door to let her in.

He kept on looking at me and mewing.

So if it's a cat-bite I'm going to die of, you'll hear me mewing the day, maybe.

" "Why, how did that kitty get in here?" said auntie, as a loud mewing was heard.

" Still the mewing went on.

A laborious special pleader, being constantly annoyed by the mewing of his favourite cat, at length resolved to get rid of it.

She learned, too, to recognise the pert sharp cry of the tiny chick-a-dee, the call of the blue-bird, and the flash of its wings amid the foliage, the sweet chirpy note of the black and white bobolink, and the long-drawn mewing of the cat-bird.

But, mewing at length for her dinner, Kit's mouth confessed the whole truth: It opened so wide that her mistress espied A rose-leaf pierced by her tooth!

Puss, by dint of repeated observation, knew when they were coming on, and would run, frisking her tail, to the girl's parents, mewing in the most heart-breaking tones, and clawing at their legs, till she made them follow her.

I see my newborn child as a mewing lump of flesh.

A swarm of mewing gulls went to and fro, and with them mingled pigeons and crows.

Later Jonas arrived, still sniffling, to announce the hack; and the two gray-garbed women hurried away amid the hysterical snivel of servants and the friendly mewing of Missy, who trotted after them to the front door, tail erect, followed by her latest progeny on diminutive and wavering legs.

So the cat ran after the women and when they began to cut up the fish, it kept mewing round them.

my cats are mewing, dogs all calling for menofor dinner!

At the same moment the lion roared, starting the company, and it is not easy to pass off that roaring for the mewing of an inoffensive cat.

she went on to her pussy, that had tumbled out of her lap as she got up, and was stretching and mewing.

But on the stroke of twelve, as he was still reading with the axe lying on the table within reach, the door opened and in came two grey cats mewing, an old one and a young one.

And to Benny: "If you tumble or fall into any foolishness, see that you squall no louder than a kitten mewing.

Pennant tells us that he heard a caged one, in England, imitate the mewing of a cat and the creaking of a sign in high winds.

There succeeds something like the barking of young puppies, followed by a variety of guttural sounds, and ending like the mewing of a cat, but much hoarser.