Thesaurus / mew
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A dog would bark; a kitten would mew; a parrot would say "Pardon!"
He brushed around Von Rosen out in the kitchen, and mewed a little, delicate, highbred mew.
THE BUTTERFLY HOUSEMARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN
Mew-hew-she-kaw, the White Cloud; first Chief of the nation.
How they would mew over my delinquencies, and what scratches I should get from their velvet-shod claws!
THE MAN BETWEENAMELIA E. BARR
The Black Cat gave vent to a single Mew,—a most unnatural sound for a mouser,—it seemed as it were mewed through a cow's horn!
“Very good,” said Peterkin, tossing a lump of pork to the cat, who received it with a mew of satisfaction.
THE CORAL ISLANDR.M. BALLANTYNE
Something put into my head that tremendous blasphemy of Carlyle's about "the last mew of a drowning kitten."
TONO BUNGAYH. G. WELLS
One says, with great solemnity, on a momentous occasion, "Thrice the brindled cat hath mew'd."
TRADITIONS, SUPERSTITIONS AND FOLK-LORECHARLES HARDWICK
Mew-Mew sat with her eyes half shut for hours, to think what a shame it was no other cat ever came to see her.
BOW-WOW AND MEW-MEWGEORGIANA M. CRAIK
Mew-Mew was so put out with the thought of Bow-Wow going away, that for a time she could not speak.
BOW-WOW AND MEW-MEWGEORGIANA M. CRAIK
WORDS RELATED TO MEW
- block off
- blockade
- bound
- box up
- cage
- circle
- circumscribe
- close in
- confine
- coop
- corral
- cover
- encase
- encircle
- encompass
- enfold
- enshroud
- environ
- fence
- fence off
- hedge
- hem in
- imbue
- immure
- implant
- impound
- imprison
- include
- induct
- insert
- intern
- jail
- limit
- lock in
- lock up
- mew
- mure
- pen
- restrict
- set apart
- shut in
- veil
- wall in
- wrap
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