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.

XIX EXCHANGING THE OLIVE-BRANCH The cat jumped off Abe's lap, running to Samuel with a mew of recognition.

A sound of street music entered the room through the open ventilators, for a band had begun to play in the stable mews at the back of the housethe March from Tannhäuser.

Till we passed the latitude of Cape Chelyuskin (which we did not sight), it was one succession of ice-belts, with Mew in the crow's-nest tormenting the electric bell to the engine-room, the anchor hanging ready to drop, and Clark taking soundings.

Now, on that particular night, or rather early morning, of January 15th, Constable D 21, having turned into the mews from Phillimore Terrace, stood for a moment at the angle formed by the long vertical artery of the mews and the short horizontal one which, as I observed before, looks on to the back gardens of the Terrace houses, and ends in a cul-de-sac.

Man might have been unmade, for no frail trace Of mortal labour startled the wild place, And only sea-mews with their wailing shrill, Circled beneath me over the dark sea, Flashing the waves with pinions snowy white, That glimmer'd faintly in the gloomy light Betwixt the foaming furrows constantly.

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

Then, one night, I heard a cat mewing on the roof outside my window.

Mew by name, a very nice gentlemanwhich said as it were rheumatic fever, and has been here twice a day ever since.

He had no hawks with him, but bred them in his own mews on the Elk River.

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!

"Has she got a fit?" exclaimed Miss Sophonisba; and she put out her hand to push the cat off, but it turned to Miss Faithful, who was sitting up in bed, and crawling under the bed-clothes, lay there trembling and mewing in a very curious fashion.